That was probably The Game Awards[0], which is a big deal. I guess whoever is behind Indie Game Awards sees the name confusion as a feature rather than a bug.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Awards_2025

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kibwen 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not trying to defend "The Indie Game Awards", which I also have never heard of, but The Game Awards are universally acknowledged to be a joke, and always have been. By runtime, it's 80% soulless, samey trailers for AAA games, 10% Imagine Dragons, 5% rooting for that coked-up clarinet player on the edge of the orchestra, and 5% Jeff Keighley rapid-firing off the winners of made-up award categories in under five seconds each.

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ffsm8 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There was no judgement in his comment.

He just pointed out (correctly) that the game awards that were being spoken of everywhere for the last few weeks were not the one related to this article.

I on the other hand will add a judgement to this discussion: if you consider the game awards a joke, which is the by far most watched event in gaming, eclipsing (by viewer count) other entertainment events in sports such as the NBA finals... You've certainly got "interesting" opinions.

	▲	itishappy 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Re: Judgement: I think it's exactly their popularity that lead people to call the big awards shows "a joke." Pretty common with stuff like the Emmys and Grammys.

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iowemoretohim 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Game Awards 2025 had more viewers than the Superbowl with a total of 171 million global livestreams vs The Indie Game Awards (7.1k Youtube views and 433 Twitch views).

	▲	kibwen 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, I know all of these things because me and all my friends make a tradition to watch it... to laugh at it. It's a hilarious farce. Which advertisers are fine with, naturally, but don't mistake someone admiring the spectacle of a catastrophic trainwreck for someone admiring the engineering of the railway. The actual awards given are a meaningless afterthought.

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Hikikomori 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This years was pretty good on trailer side, barely anything from AAA studios like Activision, ea, etc. They're not winning any awards either.

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HelloUsername 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Indeed I was confused. I am an idiot and sorry!

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MattRix 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think the name confusion can really be blamed on “The Indie Game Awards”, it has to be on “The Game Awards” for choosing the most generic possible name.