China's "Video Game" magazine also sent its own team of reporters to the scene of the awards ceremony, wave after wave of the latest information began to refresh on their special page before the official start of the party, some of them must be original, some are reprinted, otherwise just those reporters, it's good to write, take pictures and send them back to China for the people at the headquarters to polish and process, start a picture, the content is all up to the editor, the main thing is that the interview can't be interviewed, there are too many bigwigs.

There is also an area in this interface is the video window, which is the live broadcast interface provided by the Longjing platform, so that players can watch the live broadcast through the third-party page, if you want to send a barrage, you still need to log in to the live broadcast webpage after logging in to the Longjing account.

At present, this interface is only available to official serious partners for the time being.

Almost all the physical game magazines of this era have ceased publication, and Video Games is one of the few that still persists.

With the rise of the Internet, the decline of paper media is inevitable, in the early years, those magazines had unique views, humorous writing, exquisite printing, and even the included giveaway CD-ROM strategy game music CD, which once accompanied many people's juvenile brocade, but now these are no longer there. In this process, more veteran game magazines are either crumbling and drifting away, or they have become a memory fragment in history in the big waves.

Luckily for Video Games, they started the transition to websites and new media a long time ago, and they have been so successful that they have even started developing their own app now. This is now the most authoritative media in China, and it has begun to be recognized by its peers around the world.

Earlier this year, their reviews began to be included on Metacritic, not just for Nobody Survived, but also for other games, the first of its kind in China.

Now they are part of the jury officially invited by the VGA, and their main responsibility is to select the games to be nominated and then vote for the winners.

This year's VGA jury consisted of 37 professional media from various countries and regions around the world, and a whopping 30 awards were set, including the new "Best Esports Team" and "Best Esports Player" awards...... Set an all-time high. So many juries give a variety of nominations for each award, and then the advisory panel counts the best of the best, and then the jury votes for the final winner.

At that time, the editor-in-chief of Silence Lambs was overjoyed after receiving the official notice, because it represented the mainstream world's recognition of the professionalism of Chinese game media, after the game market and game development capabilities. He immediately called Ye Shenxi, and said proudly: "We are studying the list of nominations to be given internally, do you want to give you a few more nominations?" ”

It's a joke between old friends, and Pasca certainly doesn't need him as a "newcomer" to nominate him.

His original expectation was that Ye Shenxi was shocked and asked, "Huh? You've been invited to the jury, huh? Then he smiled faintly and said, "It's okay, it's average." ”

The fact is that Ye Shenxi also smiled: "Congratulations, congratulations, a small step for VGA, a big leap for Chinese game media." ”

The Lamb of Silence said: "To tell the truth, 30 awards, so many this year...... I guess we're going to have to give at least 10 herrings, and I'm kind enough to invite me to dinner. ”

Ye Shenxi said: "It's better for you to invite me, don't you know that your nomination qualification is the nomination I gave?" ”

The Silence of the Lambs was stunned...... Then he said, "That's right...... It's long overdue that you're on the advisory board. ”

The list of the jury was drawn up by the advisory group, and Ye Shenxi also joined this small group this year, not because of his lack of strength before, but the time for the rise of the herring was too short, but this rise is a soaring skyrocket.

The advisory panel is full of bigwigs from various game giants, including Activision CEO Hirshberg, EA COO (Chief Operating Officer) Peter Moore, Phil Spencer, Director of Giant Hardware XBOX, Reggie, President of Elysium America, Sean Lydon, President of Soni Electronic Entertainment USA, Yves Guillemot, CEO of Yubi, and Hideo Kojima of Hideo Kojima Studio...... And so on and so forth, these are all these people.

The list of judges of the jury, which was made up by these people, Ye Shenxi joined the group, and then he gave a proposal to increase the number of Chinese game media, and it was approved by the advisory panel as a whole, so "Video Games" also joined the group.

The Lamb of Silence muttered, "How do you feel like you have a hand covering the sky now?" ”

Ye Shenxi said: "You can't say that, one hand is not so big, probably two hands." ”

"Can I report on this......" the Lamb's professionalism was revealed.

"It's better to look at the official, you can't reveal it before the official, give some face."

"Row ......"

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A new newsletter is refreshed almost every few minutes on the official website of the video game, and most of it is mainly based on pictures with simple text descriptions.

"[Grapevine] is the last VGA this year?"

This news also quickly attracted the attention of players, a typical Chinese-style news headline, telling you the approximate, but never telling the result, the editor of "Video Game" is still okay, through the way of question sentences to attract readers to click in to see the details...... Just like many later news headlines, "XXXX turned out to be ......", "I didn't expect the final ......", "...... Let him be amazed! ”

Bah.

Readers clicked in and found out that the original last VGA meant that from next year, the "Game Oscar", which has been held for 9 years since 03, will be replaced by another awards ceremony, rather than being discontinued. Some media revealed that the new awards ceremony will be moved to the "Nojia Theater" in Los Angeles on the West Coast (renamed the "Nojia Theater" after being acquired by the Big Hard in 13 years), and the annual Emmy Awards, People's Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards and other well-known award ceremonies are held there.

The addition of a new sponsor, the Blue Fish Network, will allow the award ceremony to continue to expand, and the name will be changed from VGA (Video Game Aards) to TGA (The Game Aards), not referring to Tenghua's TGA, the name change can also reflect that the awards will be extended from video games to all game genres, as well as related spin-off industries, just like the e-sports awards that have been added this year. In addition to its own awards and selections, it will also increase the manufacturer's press conference, developer exchanges and other links to create a comprehensive game event.

It seems that the herring fish network has really become a sponsor, and all the clues are pointing to it! It's probably just a feeling of waiting for the official announcement.

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"The red carpet of the VGA2011, the time corridor of the game!"

The red carpet link added by this year's VGA, which has been revealed earlier, has finally met with players, which is a sign that VGA is beginning to integrate into mainstream society, just like the traditional entertainment stars who have announced awards and performances before, to enhance the style, and at the same time, it is also convenient for the media to take photos and focus on interviews, and they will not want to interview anyone as before...... I haven't found anyone until the end of the party.

But after all, in the game circle, there will not be a sense of competition like a film festival, or even a group of demons dancing, this year's red carpet layout is very industry-specific, there are no commercial advertisements on the advertising wall, printed from the first year of video games 40 years ago, to now appear so many classic games and game consoles, camera lens followers When these guests walk through this red carpet, those game pictures that are deep in history retreat in a flash, as if they are really walking in the time corridor of the game.

The first wall started with the first console in 1972, the Odyssey developed by Atari, and the first commercial video game "Pong" running on it, and then went to the Renjlisian era in the '80s, with the red-and-white machine, and "Little Bee", "Super Mario Bros.", ...... There is also a figure of Sega in this paragraph.

Then there was the dark glory and their "Nobunaga's Wild Hope", at that time it was one of the first manufacturers to engage in PC game development, and the appearance of the first part of "Nobunaga's Wild Hope" in 1983 also represented the official arrival of elements of Japanese RPGs on the stage of history.

Stretching back on the billboard, Street Fighter is Street Fighter, and a whole new genre of 2D fighting games is beginning to emerge...... Then came Metal Gear Solid, the original 1987 edition, where tactical stealth games appeared. and Final Fantasy 1, also in '87......

In 1989, Ren Jile GB (Game Boy) handheld game console, which shocked the world, sold 120 million worldwide......

In 1991, Philip's Philips CD-i, although not officially advertised as such, was the first disc game console, and game consoles began to enter the disc era.

Then to Soni's PS in 94, the first generation of "Resident Evil" in 96, horror games began to flourish, "Final Fantasy 7" in 97 needless to say, PS2 in 2000 began to enter the DVD era, and "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" in 98 ushered in a new era of 3D games......

THEN CAME THE ADVENT OF XBOX, AND THE CONSOLE WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS.

The next era is coming.

All the way to the present...... The advertising wall has not been played to the present.,If it's history.,Everyone is spontaneously born with feelings.,If it's a contemporary game.,Maybe it's the fans tearing it up.,Why don't we have a game in our house?,Why is there him......

This year, the organizers used a 43.6-meter-long red carpet time corridor to lead the media and the audience to review the 40-year development history of video games, which became a highlight of this year's party.

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"Villefort enters, 'G Fat' appears on the red carpet!"

In the photo, Villefort's owner, Gabe Newell, looks a little unkempt and no one doubts that if the VGA awards ceremony was held in the summer, he would definitely wear slippers to walk the red carpet. The last time Ye Shenxi saw him was at E3 last year, when he announced "Portal 2", and when he met him today, he looked like his hair was longer, his beard was whiter, and then he was fatter.

Then Company B entered, and their "The Elder Scrolls 5" Skyrim this year is about to compete with Pasca for Game of the Year.

The CDPR team entered, and this year's "The Witcher 2" has achieved great results, with nearly 5 million units sold since its release in May...... The money I borrowed from the herring fish before has been repaid, and I also have the funds to develop "The Witcher 3".

At about half past 7, the herring delegation also walked into the venue, and the leaders were naturally Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu, both of whom went to the United States to meet again, followed by Salmon's team, general manager Michael Buson, and several key members, as well as Murong from Funan headquarters, she was also shortlisted for "Best Game Song", the theme song of the same name of "No One Survives".

A team of 7 people in total.

7 people have signed their names on the advertising wall.,This wall has been densely filled with a number of loud names or IDs.,But looking at a bunch of English letters, it seems that there are only three Chinese names that are a bit dazzling.,Especially the four words of the lock pillar.,Game producers in other countries, including Japan, sign English names.,Just this one is Chinese names.。

A polite smile is a necessity, waving and greeting the media, probably except for Murong, everyone is practicing like fire.

There are too many media who want to interview these people before the official start of the party, Ye Shenxi was robbed by people from "Time Magazine" and "IGN", and Xia Qingyu was also lined up by "Los Angeles Times" and "Gamespot", no way, they were all old friends. The Chinese have a habit of always satisfying outsiders first, and their own people can be put behind, and the front-line reporters of "Video Games" and Longyan platforms are looking for other targets first.

This kind of off-site interview before the start of the party is not a very formal kind of interview, and you can answer questions and greet friends at the same time.

Ye Shenxi met the CDPR team that had entered before, and the leader was the old acquaintance Malchin, who hadn't seen him for a while, this guy was very righteous and innocent. When he borrowed money from Pasca before, the contract signed between the two companies was that CDPR needed to send a team to provide some technical support to the herring fish Henggong studio, mainly the construction of an open world, but other than that, it was gone.

When Adam, the R&D boss of CDPR Studio, came to China with a technical team of three other people, he found that it was not exactly as Marchin said that poverty alleviation in the past, and when he was in Funan, he found that Henggong's strength was more than he expected, in fact, it was a process of learning from each other, and they themselves learned a lot there, which benefited "The Witcher 2", and even broadened the thinking of "The Witcher 3". Then soon, Henggong's growth rate was amazing, and he began to surpass them, and the quality of "Getaway" represented that Henggong officially became one of the top game studios in the world......

This year's "The Witcher 2" is in addition to the console version,In the PC digital version, they have to let the herring fish FG "exclusive agent",They didn't need to do this,Basically, except for the games developed by the two companies themselves,The other manufacturers are third parties,One more sales channel will sell a few more copies,And then you can charge some more money,The reason should be like this。

But Malchin insisted on going his own way, and in addition to his GOG platform, he only went on FG, there was no steam version, no Origin version, and no Uplay version.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu were a little embarrassed, but they had no choice but to go their own way.

Fortunately, FG is still making money, and the quality of the game itself is not bad, so far FG has contributed 1.25 million units of the total sales of 5 million in the world, far exceeding Marchin's expectations, and then he thinks, huh? How to repay the favor has become a advantage again, and "The Witcher 3" still has to do this.