Nice information for followers of PlayStation and eccentric, vibrant gameplay. Astro Bot received a BAFTA award final evening, and never simply any award. It took house the Sport of the Yr award, beating out different improbable video games like Helldivers 2 and Balatro.
Not solely that, it took house a number of awards alongside the large one, together with Audio Achievement, Animation, Household, and Sport Design. This follows a Sport of the Yr win at The Sport Awards final 12 months, during which Astro Bot once more beat out many huge hitters in a frankly stacked 2024.
Whereas representatives from the staff picked up the award collectively, it was Nicolas Doucet who would give a brief speech upon selecting the illustrious award, paying homage to the staff again in Japan. “Thanks a lot to all of them, again in Japan. They crafted this recreation with a lot love, a lot care, each single day bit-by-bit. With no thought to profitable issues, we had been simply doing the most effective we might to make folks’s lives brighter.”
He would go on to thank particular members of the staff and past, together with the sport’s composer, everybody a PlayStation, and all of the companions whose video games appeared in Astro Bot. He’d additionally thank the BAFTA academy, in addition to the households of the builders, and the online game builders who got here earlier than him.
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