The Hugos will honor a video game for the first time.
Before the end of last year, the Hugo Awards declared it would respect a computer game. This week, it unveiled the rundown of six finalists the local area will consider prior to reporting the last champ at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention in August.
The rundown is fascinating, no doubt. The Hugo Awards are known for recognizing the best in sci-fi and dream composing, so it’s something of a headscratcher to see a game like Animal Crossing: New Horizons make the waitlist. This shouldn’t imply that is anything but an incredible game, yet there were a lot of type champions from 2020 that might have made the rundown all things considered, including Half-Life: Alyx, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, or Umurangi Generation.
In any case, between finalists like Hades, Spiritfarer, and The Last of Us: Part II, it will be fascinating to see which one proves to be the best. Notwithstanding, progressing requires the Hugo Awards to perceive the medium, the World Science Fiction Society simply chose to explore different avenues regarding a computer games classification after so many of its members wound up gaming a lot during the COVID pandemic.
There isn’t assurance there will be an intuitive encounter class pushing ahead, however, at any rate, it’s something the Hugo Study Committee will consider making it a lasting expansion.
