The Game Awards are one of the more “interesting” periods of the gaming year, as something almost always goes wrong with it, and there is typically heaps of controversy that the gaming community can’t help but talk about. While this year’s show wasn’t as controversial as last year’s, there were still plenty of “issues” to go around both within gamer circles and the game development community itself. For example, the team behind Black Myth Wukong seems to have an issue with not getting the prestigious “Game of the Year” award at the show. It got multiple other awards, but not the “big one.”
The game’s director, Feng Ji, made a post on Weibo, a Chinese social media site, about the “snub” and stated the following:
“In the end, it won the Best Action and Player’s Voice, especially the Player’s Voice, which is gratifying. But I must admit that there are disappointments and regrets… The games nominated this year are all excellent, but I really don’t understand …