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3 More Awards Winners

There were 3 more Award Winners. League of Legends won Best PC Game. The Evil Within won Best Sci-Fi Game. And Watch Dogs Won Best Stealth Game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.151.85.143 (talk) 23:42, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please provide a link to a source that provides this information? ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:49, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Foe the last time, those 3 games won their awards! And each one deserved it, BTW don't you have something better to do! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C:4180:51C:30EF:C545:FE09:AA7 (talk) 21:56, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Then provide the source that shows this. A link to a valid source is all you need.

This goes both ways; I imagine you have something better to do than insisting on adding this to the article. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 22:03, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Most awards

Shouldn't The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt be the single game with most awards? Except for 2 awards won in 2015 it also got Most Anticipated Game title in 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.146.60 (talk) 16:51, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changing tables' palette

Hey.

All articles about The Game Award shows (like The Game Awards 2021) have colored tables with header background set to #708090. Blue links and refs have a poor contrast ratio of 2.10, which do not pass WCAG's AA level (recommended value is 4.5 for text and 3.0 for large-scale labels like headers). Simply speaking, those are hardly accessible for color-blinded people. Links to Game of the Year are colored white to fix contrast (which is also a bad thing since you can't distinguish them from ordinary labels), but citenotes at "Best Debut Game" cells are impossible to re-color, and even if they would be, coloring them white would have improved contrast up to 4.05, which is still worse than 4.5.

I guess we should change headers' color. In Russian Wikipedia we use #eedd82 to match Infobox's color (example page), that way the contrast ratio is fine. Facenapalm (talk) 14:11, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go ahead and do that per the MOS:ACCESSIBILITY issues you brought up. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 18:14, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Dissident93 Thank you! Facenapalm (talk) 20:18, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Potentially old information

In the "Process" section, it is stated: "The Game Awards has an advisory committee which includes representatives from hardware manufacturers Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and AMD, along with several game publishers. This committee selects around thirty influential video game news organizations that are able to nominate and subsequently vote on the video games in several categories".

The "thirty influential video game news organizations" makes me think this info might be old, outdated as we know today there are more than 100 outlets involved. It should be removed or updated, if possible. Lone Internaut (talk) 19:55, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article lacks criticism

This article is reaching advertorial status while the Game Awards have had plenty of criticism thrown their way. Here's a recent article from the Guardian, for starters. Eldomtom2 (talk) 21:37, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

first paragraph is edited maliciously

The first paragraph is edited by a Sonic fan that got mad at TGA 2022 results. 177.225.12.137 (talk) 15:07, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done Reverted. Ludoyo (talk) 15:12, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"The Game Awards" or "the Game Awards"

I have a feeling we should not be capitalizing "the" in "The Game Awards" except at the start of sentences.

Per MOS:THEINST, for names of institutions, organizations, companies, etc [... ]:

The word the at the start of a name is uncapitalized, regardless of the institution's own usage (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

Popcornfud (talk) 13:54, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I often think about this too—likely due to our last discussion on the topic—so I think it would be great to get a solid consensus. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 14:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I have absolutely zero recollection of ever discussing this before. I'm getting old. Popcornfud (talk) 16:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lowercase per MOS:THEINST. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:19, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it's the Game Awards. It seems we pretty much all agree with the guidelines, so just do it. Dicklyon (talk) 04:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I just made two changes; that's all I found. Dicklyon (talk) 04:26, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Unfortunately, though, the Game Awards are mentioned on probably hundreds of other pages... Popcornfud (talk) 22:27, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]