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Hades becomes the first video game to win a Hugo Award

Supergiant Games' gay, Greek gallivant, Hades, is the first video game to receive a Hugo Award. The awards which celebrate literary works in the science-fiction and fantasy genres, added a special one-off 'Best Video Game' category this year, which is where old Zagreus picked up his accolade. Our short king's battle out of the underworld beat out its closest competition, cosy escapism simulator, Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the polls by almost fourfold.

The Hugo Awards announced the first winner of its newly created Best Video Game award, and it’s Hades, the roguelite action RPG from developer Supergiant Games. Though the Hugo Awards is a literary awards show 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 a Hugo Award in a tweet, expressing regret that he couldn’t be there to accept on behalf of the team, but shared his gratitude at video games finally having a space at the storied awards show and thanking it for his studio’s work in particular.

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

В ноябре 2021 года комитет по подготовке «Хьюго» заявил о намерении включить в список номинаций видеоигры. Первым проектом, заслужившим звание лучшей научно-фантастической или фэнтезийной игры по версии организаторов литературной премии, стала Hades.

Epic has finally freed us - the Epic Games Store shopping cart is here

Since its launch alongside The Game Awards in 2018, the Epic Games Store has not had a shopping cart. Every single bit of news about the store is always met with comments about the store's lack of a cart, and yes, it's a bit absurd that the functionality has been missing all this time. But finally, we're free. The shopping cart is here.

Yes, Epic has deployed the cart at the store's third anniversary. You can head over to the Epic Games Store to check it out for yourself. You can click 'add to cart', and games will be added to the cart. You can then purchase those games in a single transaction. You can even add DLC to the cart. And get this - you'll be shown the total cost of the transaction in your local currency before clicking purchase. Wow! What new technology will digital store owners think of next?

I still don't entirely understand why it took this long to get a shopping cart or why it became the symbol of annoyance about the Epic Store, but hey, we're finally done.

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