The Game Awards were well run, had some good reveals, had some fun (aside from the moments of usual awkwardness with these things) but there was something that sat ill with me:

For an event dedicated to celebrating gaming, there was so much film in there.

Now I'm a massive movie nerd, so seeing Christoph Waltz, the Russo brothers, Jonah Hill et al come out was cool in itself - but there was so much movie crossover. Movie people were handing out gaming awards, there was little relevance to what they were doing too, apart from, say, a corporate sponsorship (Alita: Battle Angel) or just randomly turning up and awarding (Hill, Russos).

When it comes to the wider public, movies are obviously seen as a mature art form now. Gamers are still not. So I think it's quite hard to feel like games were celebrated to their fullest when so much of the cultural heft game from big movie stars. Obviously, there is so much crossover between the two forms that arbitrarily dividing creatives wouldn't be useful at all. For example, though Hans Zimmer is a movie composer, he has done several games in the past too.

But still.

Their heft, their cultural captain, comes from their involvement in film. It felt like a strange move to me - to celebrate gaming, must we really look outward?