The Game Awards is a celebration of games, recognizing notable accomplishments in the current year while providing us with a glimpse at what’s coming in the future. 2018 was an amazing year and many of the awards categories ended up being hard fought battles among a number of really great games. You can check out all of those winners if you want to know whether God of War or Red Dead Redemption 2 came out on top.
The Game Awards 2018 reveals were also a huge part of the show, and we got a ton of interesting new trailers. This year featured the most new reveals of any Game Awards, probably at least partially owing to Sony not holding a PSX event to reveal even more things. With those reveals, we knew that there were a few favorites that would bubble up to the top. We asked our staff what their favorite The Game Awards 2018 reveals were, and here’s what they had to say.
The PlayStation Classic has faced a few criticisms, like not including a power adapter, but Sony revealed that it will be compatible with most phone chargers and USB adapters. It will also be a self-contained system with no access to the PSN, so the 20 games you see are what you get.
What do you think of the full lineup of PlayStation Classic games? What did it get right? Which essential PlayStation classic games is it missing? Let us know in the comments below what your thoughts on the PlayStation Classic are. For more on classic PlayStation games, don’t miss our PlayStation Classics series, where we look at some of those old games from the original PS1 era.
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What Were Your Favorite The Game Awards 2018 Reveals?
This year's The Game Awards had some great reveals! We asked our staff to take a look at them and decide what their favorite The Game Awards 2018 reveals were.
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Paulmichael Contreras
Surprising no one, Hello Games' The Last Campfire reveal was my favorite. After their troubled launch of No Man's Sky, which started its hype train at the Spike Video Game Awards 2013, it feels like things have really come full circle for the developer, after two straight years of intense development and subsequent improvements on their game.
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Zarmena Khan
The Outer Worlds appealed to me the most, and Far Cry: New Dawn has my attention.
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Annette Polis
I'm torn between The Outer Worlds and The Last Campfire. One appeals to my addiction to the Fallout universe, the other to my love of kawaii puzzle adventure games.
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Blake Grundman
I was extremely excited to see Rage 2: New Dawn. Oh wait... those are two separate games? Either way, they both look 10 different flavors of badass.
Also, despite it being Switch exclusive, I was extremely stoked to see Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. I have so many nostalgic feelings about that series and I can’t wait to see what this sequel brings to the table. I look forward to long sessions swapping back and forth between that and Diablo 3.2019 is going to rock! -
Chandler Wood
I've got a few favorites. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is resurrecting one of the best kart racers of all time. Psychonauts 2 finally got a nice lengthy trailer. And that Mortal Kombat 11 reveal was all sorts of gory and exciting, even if I wasn't too particular to the song used.
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Jenni Lada
It was Joker in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for me. I love SMT games and expected more first-party characters in SSBU, not someone who only appears on a Nintendo system thanks to Persona Q2!
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Lucas White
I'm betraying the people a bit on this one but I was 100% shook when Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 was revealed. I thought that series was dead and buried, and we'd get some kind of wilted mobile spiritual successor at best. But there it is, and it's even developed by Team Ninja so the implications there are wild too. I'm going to love running through, beating up baddies, and hopefully unlocking all kinds of extra costumes and nods to Marvel history. It's a bummer that it's a platform-exclusive on the Nintendo Switch, but as someone who loves things like portable action-RPGs, well, it's a wrap.
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Cameron Teague
