With the termination of the long-running Spike Video Game Awards show, its producer and host Geoff "Dorito Pope" Keighley found himself in need of a new job. So he launched a spiritual successor, The Game Awards, an event whose name is as original as its award criteria are unbiased and free of corruption. The first TGA show was held last night in Las Vegas, and Codexers will surely be overjoyed to know that BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition won the awards for both Game of the Year and Best Role Playing Game!

As far as trailers go, CD Projekt managed to squeeze one of their guys in for a few minutes to show a new one for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. He also revealed that the game would have a "second playable character", who was one of the characters appearing in the trailer.


Since this is being announced as a major feature, I would assume that this second playable character is correspondingly a major character, and not just a minor character we get to control for a few minutes for storytelling convenience purposes, as in Witcher 2. Then again, considering all the hype at these sorts of events, maybe that's exactly what it'll be.