Celebrating Game Updates and Awards

This chapter highlights the excitement surrounding a significant game update and celebrates a recent nomination at the Indie Game Awards. The speakers emphasize the importance of recognizing contributions from community management and marketing within the gaming industry while discussing the implications of award nominations on future projects. They engage in a critical debate about the fairness of award categories, particularly concerning remakes and their role in shaping gaming narratives.

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Sarah Podzorski, and Jeff Marchiafava prepare for the big Game of the Year debates by sharing their final picks for games that other people should check out and will be relevant during The Two Tens. The full list of games we mention during this segment is below. We also talk about The Rise of the Golden Idol, Dragon Quest 3's remake, and the roguelike Shogun Showdown. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/CgoP1TlUTCU

Here's the full list of games we mention as homework for The Two Tens...

1000xResist

Arctic Eggs

Astro Duel 2

Crow Country

Cryptmaster

Dicefolk

Dragon's Dogma II

Grunn

Helldivers 2

Indika