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The inaugural Gayming Awards, which was presented by EA Games and streamed exclusively on Twitch, have awarded Supergiant Games’ Hades its first Game of the Year.

Hades, Tell Me Why, and If Found… all led the way with two wins each at the Gayming Awards 2021, and most of the winners were chosen by an international judging panel of LGBTQ+ video game industry professionals. The LGBTQ Streamer of the Year Award and the Readers’ Award were decided by public vote.

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“I am so proud to be able to say we have held the world’s first LGBTQ video game award show,” The Gayming Magazine founder and editor Robin Gray said. “2020 was truly a watershed moment for LGBTQ inclusion in games and to be able to celebrate it with everyone, although virtually, was amazing! Congratulations to all the winners, well done to all the nominees and thank you again to all our sponsors! See you in 2022!”

The full list of winners of the Gayming Awards 2021 are as follows;

• Game of the Year: Hades
• Gayming Icon Award: Robert Yang
• Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award: Hades
• Best LGBTQ Indie Game Award: If Found…
• Industry Diversity Award: I Need Diverse Games
• LGBTQ Streamer of the Year: DEERE
• Best LGBTQ Character Award: Tyler Ronan – Tell Me Why
• Authentic Representation Award: Tell Me Why
• Best LGBTQ Narrative Award: If Found…

Hades was IGN’s Game of the Year for 2020, and it also took home the Best Indie Game and Best Action Game awards at The Game Awards 2020.

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The highly anticipated Halo TV show has long been in the works at Showtime, but the series will have a new home when it finally arrives, moving instead to the ViacomCBS streaming service Paramount+, according to a report. The series is still being produced by Showtime, which, like Paramount+, is owned by ViacomCBS.

The Halo show has been in the works for many years. Nevertheless, we don’t know much about it, since Showtime and Halo game developer 343 Industries have been incredibly tight-lipped up to now. We do know that it’s filmed in Budapest, and that Pablo Schreiber, who you’ll most likely remember as the prison guard known as “Pornstache” on Orange Is the New Black, is playing Master Chief. And if that seems like weird casting to you, well, you’re not alone–but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

Besides Schreiber, the show has a large announced cast, including Jen Taylor as Cortana. Taylor originally wasn’t playing Cortana in the show, so the news that she would indeed be the voice in Master Chief’s ear once again came as a pleasant surprise for fans.

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The Halo TV series has been in development for a very long time, but it should finally see the light of day in 2022. However, the series is no longer debuting on Showtime, but will instead be exclusive to the Paramount+ streaming service.

Deadline broke the news about this latest change in direction for Halo: The Series, which is being officially announced at the ViacomCBS Streaming Event today.

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Halo: The Series has been plagued by false starts and complications for years at this point. For a while it seemed as though the show’s woes were behind it when it began production in 2020. But as with so many Hollywood projects, production was suspended due to the pandemic. Luckily, Halo is back on track. Production is back underway in Budapest, and ViacomCBS is now teasing a Q1 2022 premiere window.

Halo: The Series stars Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, Danny Sapani and Olive Gray as Jacob and Miranda Keyes, Bokeem Woodbine as Soren-066, Shabana Azmi as Admiral Margaret Parangosky, and Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac and Kate Kennedy as three new Spartan characters. Natascha McElhone plays Dr. Catherine Halsey. Originally McElhone was supposed to play dual roles, also providing the voice of Master Chief’s AI partner Cortana. But due to scheduling difficulties caused by the pandemic, Cortana will now be voiced by her video game voice actress, Jen Taylor.

The Showtime series is being made in production with game developers 343 Industries and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Peaky Blinders and Black Mirror director Otto Bathurst is due to direct and executive produce the 9-episode first season.

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It remains to be seen which of the various Halo games, novels and comics might inspire the plot of the TV series. It’s rumored the series may break from tradition by showing Master Chief’s face, but that remains unconfirmed. IGN has been able to see Schreiber’s Mjolnir armor behind closed doors, and can report that it looks fantastic.

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The Mighty Ducks are skating back into action on the upcoming Disney+ original series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, but things are different this time. As you’ll see in the first trailer for the series below, the Ducks are the villains this time around. Some things never change, though, and it wouldn’t be a piece of the Mighty Ducks movie mythology without Coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) involved. Granted, this isn’t the same hopeful and inspiring Bombay fans will remember. At least, not yet.

As it turns out, though, he might not be the only cast member from the original trilogy of films appearing on the show. Asked directly at the series’ TCA winter press tour panel about whether or not Joshua Jackson would return to reprise his role as Charlie Conway, former team captain of the Ducks, executive producer Steve Brill–who also wrote all three movies–wouldn’t deny it.

“We’ve talked to Josh over the years in developing this, and he’s part of the family and part of the group and him and everyone else when and where they show up is an open exciting question,” While that’s not a confirmation, it certainly sounds like seeing Charlie on the ice one more time could be in the cards.

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Henry Cavill, who has already brought Geralt to life in Netflix’s The Witcher, has just teased that he may be working on a project set in the Mass Effect universe.

Cavill shared an photo of himself on Instagram with the words, “Secret project? Or just a handful of paper with random words on it… Guess you’ll have to wait and see. Happy hump day all. #HumpDay #Secrets”

Included with the image was part of what appears to be a script or a “handful of paper with random words on it,” but it is too blurry to clearly make out what is on the page.

GamePressure used a program called Focus Magic to remove the blur, and the clearer image reveals such words as Cerberus, Tali’Zorah, and Geth. IGN has also used Focus Magic to fix the image and can confirm these words do appear, as you can see below.

Fans of the Mass Effect franchise will immediately know that these are words and characters pulled right from that beloved trilogy. Furthermore, it appears that the text Cavill has shown us comes directly from Mass Effect 3’s Wikipedia page.

“Following the events on Tuchanka and a failed coup by Cerberus to take over the Citadel, the quarians offer their support to the Alliance if Shepard helps them reclaim their homeworld, Rannoch, from the geth,” The Wikipedia page reads. “Assisted by a quarian, either Tali’Zorah or Admiral Daro’Xen, Shepard boards a geth dreadnought and rescues a captive geth unit, either Legion or a facsimile occupied by a geth virtual intelligence (VI), then disables the Reaper control signal over the geth.”

A possible Mass Effect movie has been in the works as far back as the late 2000s. In 2010, Legendary Pictures acquired the movie rights to the franchise and was set to feature the producers behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man. There have been more rumors as the years have went on, but nothing too substantial has come since then.

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This could be a hint that Cavill may soon be taking on the role of Commander Shepard or another character in either a film or TV adaptation. It’s also possible he could be lending his voice to a game project or otherwise.

After a controversial ending to Mass Effect 3 and the mixed reception on Mass Effect Andromeda, BioWare is gearing up to bring Mass Effect back to its prime, and this could be another part in their plan to do so.

The Mass Effect Legendary Edition is set to be released on May 13, 2021, and BioWare has announced that a brand-new Mass Effect game is in “early production.”

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Superman and The Witcher TV series actor Henry Cavill made a cryptic post on Instagram that’s leading some fans to speculate he’s working on a Mass Effect project.

The post reads, “Secret project? Or just a handful of paper with random words on it…. Guess you’ll have to wait and see. Happy hump day all.” It’s accompanied by a piece of paper with the writing blurred to obscure its contents. But when the text is sharpened, it appears to show some key phrases like “Cerberus,” “Tali’Zorah,” and “Geth,” via GamePressure.

GameSpot de-blurred and noted some of the same words, though it’s always possible that being primed to see certain key words influenced that perception. The paper could be a description of the Rannoch mission, pulled from the Mass Effect 3 Wiki, as it includes those key phrases in that order. It’s unknown why Cavill would be studying a particular game mission for a role, however.

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When you die in 30XX, thus bringing your run to a premature and perhaps permanent end, there’s a good chance you will receive a message from the Bureau of Encouragement. In a roguelike platformer where death can feel like a crushing setback or at best wasted time, you would be forgiven for expecting to find comfort in such a message. A consoling pat on the back, some inspiring words, or at least a sliver of hope. You would be wrong. “Ooooh! So close…” says the Bureau of Encouragement. “Just kidding. That was terrible!”

I received a lot of messages from the Bureau of Encouragement because I died a lot in 30XX. But the Bureau was not the only regulatory agency to contact me in the aftermath of my demise. The Failure Board and the Department of Aggravation also got in touch to register their contempt at my performance. “Remember, you can stop whenever you have given up hope,” they laughed.

Despite their derision, I pressed on. Much like the classic action platformers from which it draws heavy inspiration, 30XX is a game in which defeat is never an ending but rather an opportunity to start over and try again. A roguelike structure is a smart complement to this life-death cycle and positions 30XX–even in its Early Access state–as an accomplished title, worthy of comparison to its 8- and 16-bit forerunners.

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