Hazelight’s action-adventure took home 3 awards at last night’s Game Awards

Last night was packed full of gaming celebrations, highlights, and surprises at The Game Awards 2021 in Los Angeles. So many iconic games from this year picked up awards for their impact on the gaming community, as well as plenty of announcements for future releases and adaptations.

But there was one game that took home the top prize of the night, as well as 2 other awards, and that was It Takes Two. 

The Game Awards Winners

If you aren’t aware, It Takes Two is a co-op action-adventure game developed by Hazelight and published by EA. It is specifically designed for split-screen cooperative multiplayer and sees players play as the couple Cody and May, two humans that have been turned into dolls by a magic spell. Trapped in a fantastical world, they’re put through challenges of saving their fractured relationship by the love guru Dr. Hakim.

It Takes Two took home the top prize of the Game of the Year award as well as the awards for Best Multiplayer and Best Family Game too.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for, Game of The Year! A massive congratulations to It Takes Two @hazelightgames + @ea + ​​@josef_fares for your big win! #TheGameAwards pic.twitter.com/3o2kGm8qHm

— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 10, 2021

Other games that took home multiple awards included Forza Horizon 5 for Best Sports/Racing, Best Audio Design, and Innovation in Accessibility. Deathloop, which had 9 nominations, ended up taking home 2 awards, and Kena: Bridge of Spirits won Best Indie and Best Indie Debut.

Here is the full list of winners below:

Game of the Year
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)

Best Game Direction
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)

Best Ongoing
Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)

Best Indie
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)

Best Debut Indie
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)

Best Narrative
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)

Best Art Direction
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)

Best Score and Music
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (Keiichi Okabe, Composer)

Best Audio Design
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Performance
Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village

Games for Impact
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/Square Enix)

Best Community Support
Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)

Best Mobile Game
Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)

Best VR/AR
Resident Evil 4 (Armature Studio/Capcom/Oculus Studios)

Best Action
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Best Action/Adventure
Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)

Best Role Playing
Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting
Guilty Gear -Strive- (Arc System Works)

Best Family
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)

Best Sports/Racing
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Sim/Strategy
Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Multiplayer
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)

Most Anticipated, Presented by Prime Gaming
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Innovation in Accessibility, Presented by Chevrolet
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Content Creator of the Year
Dream

Best Esports Game
League of Legends (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev

Best Esports Team
Natus Vincere (CS:GO)

Best Esports Coach
Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event
2021 League of Legends World Championship

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Sonic fans are certainly in for a few treats and surprises at the Game Awards 2021

The movie poster for the upcoming sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has been released by SEGA and Paramount.

Not only that, but the poster was specifically dropped so fans could get hyped ahead of the Game Awards 2021 as it was also announced the trailer will be premiered at the award show.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

The movie poster for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features Sonic and Tails onboard an aeroplane, being pursued the sky by Dr. Robotnik. There are no signs of Knuckles, but it has been confirmed the echidna will be making his debut in this next movie, voiced by none other than Idris Elba.

The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 trailer will be shown at the Game Awards, along with the actors Jim Carrey and Ben Schwartz (Dr. Robotnik and voice of Sonic), who will appear during the Game Awards to promote the film.

Geoff Keighley, the award show’s host and owner, recently gave hints that Sonic fans were in for a treat for another big gaming reveal, so it’s possible there will be a double whammy of news to look forward to.

Geoff Keighley replied to a tweet claiming that there will be a number of big announcements during the Game Awards 2021, and Keighley’s response confirmed that statement. He then was asked if he was a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, to which Keighley replied with “very much so” and the eyes emoji, something usually used to draw attention or deliberately act suspicious regarding something.

The official Twitter account for Sonic the Hedgehog then responded by asking for tickets for the award show, playing along with Keighley. People are guessing this announcement will be for Sonic Frontiers.

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As The Game Awards draw closer, game announcements are being teased for the award show

It’s now only two days until The Game Awards 2021 takes place from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and everyone is on edge waiting to see what world premieres and announcements the show has for us in store.

Well, it looks like we already have one teaser for what to expect, thanks to interactions on Twitter from the award show’s host and creator, Geoff Keighley, and it’s none other than everybody’s favourite hedgehog.

Sonic the Hedgehog Announcement

It all started when Geoff Keighley replied to a tweet claiming that there will be a number of big announcements during the Game Awards 2021, and Keighley’s response confirmed that statement. He then was asked if he was a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, to which Keighley replied with “very much so” and the eyes emoji, something usually used to draw attention or deliberately act suspicious regarding something.

After a few hours had passed, the official Twitter account for Sonic the Hedgehog tweeted the Game Awards’ creator asking if he had spare tickets for the event of Thursday.

Hey @geoffkeighley do you have any extra invites to TGA?

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) December 6, 2021

This was followed by a very funny reply and quote retweet from Keighley and got fans excited even more at the prospect of a Sonic announcement at the Game Awards 2021.

I see you are thirty and flirty. DM incoming… #TheGameAwards https://t.co/ju3E8V6nMz

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 6, 2021

Following you now because you were cool enough to hook us up with an extra invite 😉 Thanks again!

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) December 6, 2021

This would make sense the blue hedgehog has more announcements coming as it’s already been one hell of a year for the 30-year-old franchise. There’s also the discovery of a new domain that has been registered on the official Sonic the Hedgehog website, with the URL frontiers.sonicthehedgehog.com.

The site is unavailable to the public as it presents users with a 403 Forbidden message, but we can expect this to be revealed sometime soon as the 403 message suggests the URL is being used for something.

Sonic Frontiers is believed to be the name of the upcoming open-world Sonic the Hedgehog game that was first teased in May, during a Sonic Central presentation, and is expected to be headed to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch and PC.

We can expect quite a few announcements at the Game Awards this year, as it was also teased there will be another big announcement that has been in the works for over 2 years.

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Do you want the good news first or the bad news?

In a recent tweet by Geoff Keighley (executive producer and host of The Game Awards), he claimed that ‘beyond it’s nominations, I can confirm Activision Blizzard will not be part of this year’s The Game Awards’. This is largely due to rampant allegations of harassment and a toxic work culture at Activision Blizzard.

The brave souls coming out against Activision Blizzard has resulted in employee walkouts, a California lawsuit for worker’s rights violations, protests, public condemnations from the big 3 game companies and the loss of talented workers set for development on Activision Blizzard projects. And not to inhale my own phallus, but of all my thumbnails, my ‘BlizzCon Blizzcancelled‘ one isn’t half bad if I do say so myself.

The Washington Post interviewed Geoff Keighley, wherein he claimed that he wanted to address potentially removing Activision Blizzard from The Game Awards ‘without hurting the developers or employees’, which is fair enough. Many of the greatest films and novels were made by people of unsavory moral character, and even then, the work of Activision’s downtrodden employees shouldn’t suffer because of the actions of the company’s abusers.

Unfortunately, Activision Blizzard may have some limited influence at The Game Awards. Rob Kostich, (new president of Activision Blizzard) serves on The Game Awards’ board of advisors. The board doesn’t decide which games get nominations and awards, but keeping one of Activision’s head staff is a slightly sus gamer move, to use parliamentary language.

I mean, I don’t know the guy, but let’s not mince words, it’s a little darkly funny that the top leaders of Activision Blizzard have hilariously similar names! At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a real life ‘Bobbert Kotique‘ who I’d have to settle out of a lawsuit for unintentional slander!

‘There is no place for abuse, harassment or predatory practices in any company or any community, we all need to work together to build a better and a more inclusive environment so everyone feels safe to build the world’s best games’ – Geoff Keighley.

Do we have any specifics on how Geoff Keighley wants to support the game devs and employees of Activision without condoning the company’s practices? Kinda… And by kinda, I mean not really (as far as I’m aware). But, I am nothing if not a man open of mind and occasionally dumb of ass, so in the spirit of good faith: Geoff Keighley, if you’re reading this, here is my suggestion for how to include effected contributors to Activision games without praising the company or it’s abusers as a whole.

Name names: At the end of the day, it takes a village to raise a child. When discussing games from Activision (if they make it into the awards lineup), research the key named developers, see who contributed to what, give a little spotlight to those who contributed to the game rather than “by Activision” (which is admittedly a pitfall I’ve fallen into on occasion). I understand The Game Awards will be dropping in a few days, so I may be asking a little much, but hopefully this is food for thought for next year… Or maybe there won’t even be an Activision Blizzard next year, in which case, no trouble at’all a’tall.

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A big announcement is going to drop at The Game Awards 2021 and bets are on the Breath of the Wild sequel…

The Game Awards 2021 are fast approaching and it has been teased we are in for some big announcements during the award show, including a world premiere of a major title.

There are many games that this could possibly entail, but one game that people are guessing will be the ‘world premiere’ is the sequel to Breath of the Wild, and there are multiple factors as to why.

What we know about the Breath of the Wild sequel

The organiser of The Game Awards 2021, Geoff Keighly, took to Twitter to tease he had seen the final cut of the world premiere the award show has been working on with the developer for 2 and a half years. This obviously got gamers very excited and curious as to know what game Keighly is talking about and some think they have already worked it out to be the sequel to the Legend of Zelda series that debuted on Switch.

Just saw the final cut of a #thegameawards world premiere we have been working on with a developer for 2.5 years.

Truly honored we are entrusted to share this work with the world.

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) November 28, 2021

Breath of the Wild was an instant hit when it debuted in 2017, and fans couldn’t wait for the sequel when it was announced at E3 2019. It has been 2 and a half years since that announcement which matches perfectly for the ‘world premiere’ Keighly mentions.

Some people have argued that since the BOTW sequel has previously been announced, it goes against the idea of a ‘world premiere’, however, Nintendo Life pointed out in their article that there have been instances in the past where so-called premieres for The Game Awards have been aired for games that have already been glimpsed by the public.

Nintendo has also been deliberately holding back on releasing the title for the BOTW sequel as it will give too much away for what fans can expect, so it is possible we might get some gameplay footage or a teaser trailer when the title for the sequel finally gets released.

Finally, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma recently said the development is running ‘smoothly’ on the sequel and that will can expect more information this year. The Games Awards would be the perfect time to do so.

The Game Awards 2021 will be streamed live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 9 and world premieres and musical performances are set to be featured.

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