The year-end VGA Awards Ceremony is not only an award, but also a year-end party for all the bigwigs and giants in the world game field. Just like the Oscars, the Academy Awards or the three major European film festivals, it doesn't necessarily have to be a work to bring, and walking on the red carpet is already the dream of countless filmmakers.

There is only one other award in the world that can compete with the weight of this award, the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the selection criteria of the two are different, VGA is a comprehensive evaluation of players, sales, word-of-mouth, etc., while the Game Developers Conference is more inclined to the professional opinions of developers, its award link is as an additional reward for the developer conference, and it is usually at the beginning of each year, the previous year's games are selected.

This year's VGA Awards Ceremony was held in the form of a dinner, but it was not a traditional Chinese banquet table, a table of more than a dozen people, just a small round table, and the six-person team of Qingyu Network occupied a table.

An industry like gaming is more casual, and creative small and medium-sized players are more likely to succeed than other industries, but it still has a class presence.

The herring network is very high, just in the first row, and they are one of the protagonists tonight. On the left, on the left, on the SCE (Soni Computer Entertainment), and a little further away is EA, Giant Hard, Activision...... This row is the absolute power master.

In fact, if you only rely on the phenomenal games they developed, it is not enough to sit in the first row, although those games can indeed be written into history, but they are only a few games after all, not even a series...... It's almost always a large third-party publisher, and it's home to a large number of powerful studios that have a huge impact on the gaming industry.

It just so happens that the herring network also has FG, and in the field of digital distribution, they have now become the new leader.

Moreover, digital distribution clearly represents the future, being accepted and relied on by more and more players, and traditional physical disc retail giants have begun to seek a way out of the future, and powerful publishers have also begun to tinker with their own digital platforms, such as EA and Yubi. However, the FG brand has been formed, and it is so easy to use, the power of the herring network will only increase, and some people even suspect that the future herring network may reach the peak of Ren Bliss after the collapse of Atari.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu attended in casual clothes, looking casual and decent, the Oscar of the game industry is not the Oscar after all, what kind of dress is needed, the game has its own industrial culture.

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It was really a good time to greet before the dinner.

"Hey, Pasca."

"How are you doing, Mr. Kojima?"

"The last time we saw each other seemed to be last year's VGA? If I'm not mistaken. ”

The two did not meet at this year's E3, there was no new work announced by the Blue Fish Network, and Hideo Kojima was also doing his global tour...... For his new work this year, "Metal Gear Solid: And Parallelists". The results of this new series released on the PSP platform are very gratifying, especially in Japan, and even drove the sales of the PSP, which continued to be sluggish, and in May and June, it surpassed the XBOX360 in the horizontal comparison of multiple game consoles, and briefly got rid of the penultimate position......

"I played your Getaway, and to be honest, I was shocked, it exceeded my original expectations so much."

"I also played "Parallelists", but I was too busy at the time, otherwise I would have planned to go to Xiangjiang to listen to your speech."

From Ye Shenxi's point of view, if you don't play more games, you won't even be able to socialize.

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"Pasca, welcome to the United States."

"Hello, Peter, in fact...... I've been in the U.S. for a while. ”

The other party is Peter Moore, EA's global COO (chief operating officer), who is also a legend in the industry. From the president of Sega's U.S. division, he witnessed Sega's "death of the DC host". AND THEN WENT TO THE GIANT HARD, THE DIRECTOR OF THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWO GENERATIONS OF XBOX CONSOLES, AND ALSO EXPERIENCED THE "THREE RED INCIDENTS" THAT ALMOST COLLAPSED THE ENTIRE BRAND, BUT FORTUNATELY, THE GIANT HARD HAS MONEY, AND HE SMASHED 1.15 BILLION DOLLARS FOR OVERNIGHT DELIVERY, REPLACED THE MACHINE, STABILIZED THE PLAYERS, AND SAVED THE XBOX......

Then he went to EA...... EA's reputation as "America's Worst Company" is starting to grow......

Just ask you, is the legend legendary?

However, some media revealed that he was planning to leave EA recently, but I don't know if it's true or not.

"Ah, by the way, you're supposed to be working on your new zombie project, so you did it at your studio in North America?"

Ye Shenxi: "......"

This group of people has a keen sense of smell.

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There is also a female reporter from IGN who bet with Ye Shenxi on VGA last year, Ye Shenxi looks a little familiar, and the other party also looks at him with a lot of words, his eyes are full of "We know each other".

Rather awkward scenes.

Miss Reporter greeted him warmly: "Pasca! ”

"Hey, hello...... Long time no see, how's it going? ”

"My name is Rachel." The female reporter has read countless people, of course she knows that the big man on the other side doesn't remember her, she is quite confident in her appearance, but she looks at Xia Qingyu who is talking and laughing with another group of bigwigs on the other side, of course she recognizes this popular queen in the game field, and she is relieved to compare it.

"Of course, Rachel, do you have to make a bet this year?"

Ye Shenxi knew that Rachel knew this, and sure enough, he remembered her, and he was a little happy.

Rachel smiled and shook her head: "I won't need it this year, there should be no suspense, you think so too, right?" ”

Every sentence is a move.

"I can't say that, this is a very fierce competition, and there are too many excellent products." Ye Shenxi's official rhetoric was not practiced in vain.

"Then we bet ...... Guess what about games outside of Getaway? ”

"Absolutely."

Rachel was also a little surprised: "Okay, I guess the best game of the year is "Getaway", and if I lose, it's still ten sets of your new work." ”

Ye Shenxi also laughed schemingly: "Then I guess the games other than "Getaway", if I guess wrong......"

"I'll tell you that the name of the new project is "No One Survives", and how about the release time in November next year."

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Rachel covered her mouth and smiled, here again.

You can always get some "unexpected" headlines here in Pasca, and it seems that you will have to contact them often in the future.

"Next November...... Is it so fast, it's really amazing, do you guys have any cheats? ”

November refers to the release time, and the various systems have been tested, dubbed, pressed, packaged, and so on sooner.

"Well-thought-out thinking, a positive atmosphere, strong technical support, and of course because we have a great team member."

It's the same as not saying it.

Rachel motioned to the staff next to her, who typed quickly on their phones and sent the news back to the newsroom, and soon the news would be posted on IGN's official website as a text message.

She also pulled out a thick stack of XBOX360 CDs of "Getaway" from her shoulder bag, and it seemed that she had come prepared. The packaging of the disc looks a little old, and it seems that she is not buying it temporarily, but is willing to gamble and lose soon after it is released.

"Look, this is the ten sets I bought at the time, can you sign them for me?" Even the pen was presented.

It is estimated that this will also flow into the prize pool of some IGN readers' events.

It's really hard for the media to suffer.

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At 8 o'clock in the evening, after the awards ceremony officially began, there was an opening dance, which was very American, very jazzy, and very lively.

However, the stage performance is just an embellishment, and the basic process of VGA, except for awarding awards, is spent most of the time in ...... Watch the film.

Well, it's very characteristic of the industry.

This year's VGA will feature a total of 21 new and large works or promotional animations that have already announced new trends...... Reaching another all-time high, it all adds up to more than 40 minutes...... It's really easy to have a dinner like this.

However, the guests present can also watch it with relish, and the climax is repeated, and the remote audience on TV and the Internet is also fascinated.

Of course, these 21 trailers have already been screened by the organizers, and the number of viewers of this year's live broadcast is estimated to be around 7 million, including TV and the Internet. Because of the god-making movement and the leading role of idols (so it is not impossible to say that Qingyu Network), more and more players, not only but especially in China, have begun to pay attention to the content in the industry.

What used to be just word of mouth among hardcore and hardcore gamers about the game company, producers, team history, and development process can now be called out by even some light gamers.

Roddick, the talk show host of Spike TV, basically plays the role of a string, telling two jokes in the middle. After a brief opening speech welcoming the guests, he joked about a few more guests tonight, Qingyu Network and Ye Shenxi, as one of the protagonists tonight, are obviously the focus of ridicule.

The camera swept over the table with particular frequency.

He and Xia Qingyu very politely waved to everyone present, as well as the camera.

Soon the studio lights dimmed, and the big screen started to look a little ...... Sloppy promo.

That's true, it doesn't look like the sincerity is too much, it's 59 seconds long, and there is only about 20 seconds in the middle to have actual content, but not even a single character appears...... There was only one table, on which were placed items such as treasure maps, pistols, teacups, notebooks, ancient books, daggers, and photographs.

The camera slowly pans over these objects, and then the trailer ends.

Even so, when several logos appeared at the beginning and end of the credits, it still caused a burst of enthusiastic cheers from the scene.

Those logos are PS, SCE, and Naughty Dog.

At that time, everyone already knew which game it was.

Sure enough, the logo of "Uncharted 3" finally appeared at the end of the film, and PS exclusively.

Uncharted 2, which was last year's Game of the Year, kicked off this year's VGA with a sequel that is indeed the most qualified to be the "opening guest".

The only regret is that people don't see Drake in the trailer.

The end of the film ends with a release date: "November ......, 2011"

Some people here still don't know that Ye Shenxi has "announced" the release date of "No One Survives", which is also November 2011......

When the female reporter Rachel saw this date, her eyes were open, and there was an unconcealable excitement in her eyes. It's no surprise that November of each year is the time for the release of various masterpieces, and the Thanksgiving holiday to catch the fight.

"New Year's Goods Call" is also released in November every year.

If it weren't really efficient, if Qingyu Network's "Getaway" wasn't really efficient, it should have been released in November, or the Christmas file in December.

Now it seems, that is, next November...... At least three games have already hit head-on.

"Call of the Year 8: Modern Warfare 3", "Uncharted 3" and "Nobody Survives", Rachel already knows what to write for this year's VGA feature.

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Several small awards followed, including Best Performer, Best Downloaded Game, Best DLC, ...... These awards have nothing to do with the herring network, who told them to be shortlisted for the four heaviest weights, the heavier the awards will be later, this is common sense.

Xia Qingyu secretly exchanged ears with Ye Shenxi, but as long as he noticed the camera, he quickly waved at the camera dignified and generous, smiling.

The two of them have also practiced this kung fu, and the Dafa of eye contact is even more perfect.

Xia Qingyu eyeballs ↑↗→←↙↓→→, meaning: "A little boring......"

Ye Shenxi also replied with →→ ↘↖↖↘↖↘ eyes, meaning: "It's coming to us soon." ”

Xia Qingyu ↑↓↑↓↓ ↙ ←↖↗: "I envy Shan Jie and a few of them, I can be so excited to see these awards." ”

Ye Shenxi could only →←→←→←→←: "It's the first time they've come, for sure." ”

Xia Qingyu ↓↘→↗↑↖←↙: "Look at Yang Shu, this girl is about to fall asleep......"

Ye Shenxi hurriedly patted Yang Shu on the shoulder, making her feel more energetic, the camera lens is on, you represent the image of the company.

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As the awards gala continued, so did the weight of the awards.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu also ushered in their mission.

Today, of course, they have a task, both of them have to give awards to others, and they are on stage together.

It's really rare for these two to be on the same stage, although the whole world knows that they are a couple.

It can only be said that the organizers are really thoughtful, and they arranged a very heavy award "Best Shooting Game of the Year", but the two of them are on the same stage...... It is estimated that the winners have not received so much attention.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu walked onto the stage, holding a handcard in their hands.

"Good evening, everyone." The two greeted everyone at the same time, and the scene ushered in the warmest applause so far, and the cheers were thunderous...... If it weren't for the fact that they were all people with status, and it was a more solemn occasion, I was afraid that they would have to whistle.

It was morning in China, and there were many students skipping class in the dormitory, office workers zooming the video window to the minimum and putting it in the corner of the computer desktop, and some simply asked for leave.

Then I quickly typed on social media and instant messaging apps.

"Look, Mr. Yu and Mr. Lie have come to the stage!"

Although the organizing committee has previously announced the list of some important award presenters, including two, of course, the players still felt extremely surprised.