This is just Polygon’s guess of what they think will be nominated - pure crystal ball gazing.

That said on previous years there has been a few weeks between ballots being due and the cut off for a games release date:

Ballots were sent out to outlets on Oct. 29, due back on Nov. 6, […]. Outlets also had until Nov. 13 to send in updated versions of those ballots, if changes were necessary. […] To be eligible, the game must be released before Nov. 20 […]

https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/18/21574150/the-game-awards-nominations-2020-games-list

Its improved a lot since the early days but the docs can always be refined further.

If you find something that needs improvement opening an issue over here will get a few eyes on it.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/labels/topic%3Adotnet

Are they valuing it at €1 per cart?

That seem too high for production costs and too low for retail value.

This is the commit where the license changed:

https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/9ca6b5430fb358b39f21ce0b2fc0268de954dd23

The parent link on that page takes you to the most recent before the license change:

https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/25bc8a64803df7e702db66e0f11d7b7d0fdc99f2

Anyone can fork the repo and continue working from 25bc8a6

Open critic has a handy chart available for scored titles that compares it with the rest of their database. This offers some insight into the score distribution:

• a score of 50 places in the 6th percentile
• a score of 60 places in the 15th percentile
• a score of 70 places in the 40th percentile
• a score of 80 places in the 79th percentile
• a score of 90 places in the 99th percentile

So a score of 70 is already pretty mid, and 60 or lower is going to be dire.

all the PS4 games the PS5 doesn’t have.

Thankfully this list is small enough that you can just ignore it:

• Afro Samurai 2 Revenge of Kuma Volume One
• Just Deal With It!
• Robinson: The Journey
• We Sing
• Hitman Go: Definitive Edition
• Shadwen

https://www.playstation.com/support/games/ps5-backward-compatibility-games/#only

workers who have lost their jobs should “drive an Uber” or “go to the beach for a year” until employment settles.

The second part has real “let them eat cake vibes”!

If we cross reference the above list with the excluded games list here we get an even shorter list:

https://support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/backward-compatibility/what-games-are-compatible-with-my-xbox

• Fighter Within
• FRU
• Kinect Sports Rivals
• Shape Up
• Xbox Fitness

Its a short list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AXbox_One-only_games

What steps can be taken to mitigate this?

Be an employer of choice. What can you do to make people want to work with you, not out of necessity but because you are better than the alternatives. (Pro tip: if you’re paying the lowest rate you’re allowed to without braking the law you better be offering some other incentive)

Neat

• https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Godot/
• https://itch.io/games/made-with-godot

But its a hit driven industry and most of those titles are not household names.

As far as commercial success goes i know Brotato and Cassette Beasts have been picked up by GamePass so they are multiplatform releases with recognition by a major platform owner.

Best anno was on Wii.

I don’t know about this title but standards can change.

The Australian OFLC rated:

• Fable (2004}: M for “Medium level animated violence”
• Fable: The Lost Chapters (2005): MA15+ for “Strong violence, Sexual references”
• Fable Anniversary (2013): R18+ for “Sexual activity related to incentives and rewards”

These are essentially the same game but every time it was reviewed they bumped it up a rating.

In Australia they give (from largest to smallest):

Ingredients

• Carbonated Water
• Colour (150d)
• Food Acids (338, 330)
• Sweeteners (951, 950)
• Flavour
• Caffeine

With the numbers corresponding to:

• 150d - soft-drink caramel
• 338 - phosphoric acid
• 330 - citric acid
• 951 - Aspartame
• 950 - Acesulfame potassium

WBD reported in August 2024 that it had lost $10 billion in the second quarter of 2024, relating to continued losses from its direct-to-consumer segment and the devaluation of its linear TV assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Discovery

As these are based of the films as much as the books I think they probably have a favorable licensing deal compared with the other licensed Traveller’s Tales Lego games.

The other franchise that might compete is Lego Batman but for that the one the series was released between 2008 and 2018 (i.e. spanning PS2, PS3, and PS4) and it would take a full rebuild of the earlier titles to bring them up to a consistent standard. Probably more effort than they want to spend on a cheap cash grab.

Also the Beatles were garbage so his comparison is apt.

Your welcome to your personal opinions of course but the Beatles were obviously both popular and commercially successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

Anyone involved in commercial art would love to sell that many units.

They used Time.deltatime in FixedUpdate.

To be fair Unity knows this is going to happen and returns Time.fixedDeltaTime to keep things working properly.

As a dev I would refer to the people running my software as users all the time, a user runs software under a user profile with their limited user privileges, we might write the user data to the user home directory, identity them on the backend by some user id but probably want to use the user display name on the UI.

Its not derogatory but when your implementing the software the user holds a distinct role and is perfectly valid terminology for the person using the software.

This game is charging us$130 / €140 / au$200 for the ultimate edition!

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/star-wars-outlaws-ultimate-edition

And if you buy it on launch day you get a progress destroying bug?