Canadian eSports organizer Northern Enviornment’s first-ever Annual Canadian Sport Awards (CGAs) came about Friday night. Initially set to be a live event in April, Northern Enviornment postponed the awards and later transition to a pre-recorded digital occasion because of COVID-19.
The CGAs honoured a number of AAA and indie titles from quite a lot of Canadian builders. In case you missed it, we’ve received all of the winners and losers down beneath.
Earlier than we get into it, nonetheless, it’s value noting that forward of the occasion, the CGA Twitter account shared an announcement noting that following a dialogue with Ubisoft Montréal, it decided it was “not applicable to incorporate them within the Studio of the 12 months class.”
Assertion in regards to the Studio of the 12 months Class pic.twitter.com/ZeWeuF2dde
— Canadian Sport Awards / Prix du jeu Canadien (@cgameawards) September 18, 2020
The choice probably stems from a number of current controversies relating to Ubisoft executives from a number of studios, together with Ubisoft Toronto and Montréal. Polygon reports that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot issued an apology earlier this month. Whereas Guillemot didn’t particularly point out any particular person or incident, the publication factors to controversies which resulted within the resignations of Serge Hascoet, former editorial chief and Maxime Béland, editorial vp at Ubisoft Toronto, in addition to the dismissal of Ashraf Ismail, artistic director of Murderer’s Creed Valhalla at Ubisoft Montréal. The corporate additionally fired vp for editorial and inventive providers, Tommy Francois.
Canadian Sport Award winners
Greatest Artwork Path
The CGAs awarded Dauntless with the award for Best Art Direction. Phoenix Labs, an unbiased recreation studio with areas in Vancouver, B.C. in addition to California and Washington, was the studio behind the sport. Dauntless is available to play for free on Epic Games.
Greatest Sport Design
Vancouver-based unbiased recreation studio Brace Your self Video games’ Cadence of Hyrule won the award for Best Game Design. Printed by Nintendo, Cadence is a rhythm-based motion journey recreation that includes characters from the Legend of Zelda collection. It’s available for $31.49 on the Nintendo Switch.
Greatest Rating/Soundtrack
Outward gained the award for Best Score on the CGAs. From Québec’s 9 Dots Studio, Outward is an open-world RPG with the premise that your character isn’t a strong ‘chosen one’ hero, however as a substitute an everyday individual. Outward is out there on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — it’s at the moment on sale for $16.99 on Steam (regular $49.99).
Greatest Efficiency
Leslie Miller won the CGA for Best Performance for her work as Lou, one of many predominant antagonists in Far Cry New Daybreak. New Daybreak is a first-person shooter from Ubisoft Montréal and a spin-off from the Far Cry collection. It serves as a story sequel to Far Cry 5. New Daybreak is out there on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Greatest Narrative
Vancouver-based Piranha Video games’ MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries gained the CGA for Best Narrative. MW5M takes place within the yr 3015, and places gamers within the pilot seat of hulking ‘BattleMechs’ as they observe a path of “interstellar intrigue.” MW5M is available on Epic Games.
Greatest Audio Design
Ubisoft Montréal’s Far Cry New Daybreak won the award for Best Audio Design as nicely, making it an excellent evening for the sport.
Greatest Canadian eSports Participant
Russel ‘Twistzz’ van Dulken took dwelling the CGA for Best Canadian eSports Player. Dulken is knowledgeable Counter-Strike: World Offensive participant for Crew Liquid.
Greatest Canadian eSports Host
Following up Greatest eSports Participant was the award for Best Canadian eSports Host, which went to Marissa ‘MRob’ Roberto. Roberto hosts Digital SportsCentre on TSN.
Greatest Canadian eSports Group
Toronto’s official Overwatch League staff, Toronto Defiant, took dwelling the CGA for Best Canadian eSports Organization.
Greatest Canadian eSports Occasion
CGA awarded Get On My Level (GOML) the Best Canadian eSports Event. GOML kinds itself as “the North’s greatest” annual grassroots match.
Greatest Canadian Content material Creator / Present
Vancouver-based YouTuber ‘DangerouslyFunny‘ took the award for Best Canadian Content Creator / Show. DangerouslyFunny takes gaming to a brand new degree by exploring some foolish methods of taking part in video games, whether or not that’s by growing the pace in each recreation of Amongst Us or turning Sims 4 right into a battle royale recreation.
Greatest Canadian Streamer
Montréal’s Alicia ‘EightBitBlonde’ Alexandra gained the CGA for Best Canadian Streamer.
Greatest Canadian Persona
Vancouver’s Cherry Thompson took dwelling the CGA for Best Canadian Personality.
PC Sport of the 12 months
Far Cry New Daybreak returned to assert the CGA for PC Game of the Year, making the evening a giant one for Ubisoft Montréal.
Console Sport of the 12 months
It was additionally a giant evening for Vancouver’s Brace Your self Video games, which took dwelling the Console Game of the Year award for Cadence of Hyrule.
Cellular Sport of the 12 months
Montréal-based Outerminds’ Pixelings gained the award for Mobile Game of the Year. Pixelings has gamers staff up with YouTuber PewDiePie to guard Pixeland from invaders. It’s obtainable without spending a dime on iOS and Android.
Indie Sport of the 12 months
Cadence of Hyrule additionally had a giant evening, taking dwelling the award for Indie Game of the Year.
Sport of the 12 months
Brace Your self Video games and its Cadence of Hyrule actually cleaned up, taking dwelling a complete of 4 awards together with the CGA for Game of the Year.
Studio of the 12 months
Lastly, CGA handed out the Studio of the Year award to Vancouver-based Klei Leisure. The studio is accountable for video games like Don’t Starve, Mark of the Ninja, Griftlands and more.
These considering studying extra in regards to the CGAs can try its Twitter page. You too can head to the CGA web site to see all the nominations for each category.
