Hades Wins Hugo Award in New Video Game Category

Hugo Award announced first person winner Newly created Best Video Game award and it Hades, the roguelite action RPG from developer Supergiant Games. While the Hugo Awards are a literary award dedicated to science fiction and fantasy, this year it branched out into the world of video games and gave Hades another chance to make history.

Supergiant creative director Greg Kasavin reacted to his studio’s game winning the Hugo Award in a tweet, expressing regret that he couldn’t be present to accept the award on behalf of the team, but shared Share his gratitude when the video game finally got a spot at the high profile show awards and thank it for his studio’s work in particular.

Other games nominated for historic first prize are Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The Last of Us: Part 2, Spiritfarer, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Blaseball, all game of the year 2020, as the Hugo Awards consider it. works from the previous year.

This year’s Hugo Awards, which take place at the annual World Science Fiction Conference, represent a further branch of the venerable awards association, which has added categories like Best Fanzine, although it’s becoming increasingly popular. hot recently because it was sponsored by a weapon manufacturer Raytheon This year.

Hades, meanwhile, has sucked up accolades and trophies since its release from early access this year, not to mention the fact that it’s extremely popular. And that was before it came in PlayStation or Xbox Platform. It’s a myth to think how the game could be different if Supergiant were involved other direction.

Hades is currently available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC.