I’m not sure how to say it, but I’ll start with this. You got folks who take this console war stuff way to serious. At the end of the day, it should just be banter and playing the games you love. But people can’t seem to get this concept, long after the big console wars ended. We should be able to put our differences aside and enjoy the games and celebrate the best games around. Enter the Players Choice Awards live from Planet Thrash, January 14th 6EST/3PST. VOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEEEE

This is an answer to the Video Game Awards. A boring corporate self pat on the back and mega commercial for the industry. Nothing but commercials for service games, world premieres for service games and reveals no one really cared about. There’s been a few cool reveals like No Mans Sky and the Sega franchise revivals. The big highlights of the VGA’s are when someone like Josef Fares is drunk and saying craziness.VOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEEE

Now we don’t have these cringy hosts who don’t game like that. Nor the celebs who try to pander and converse with the crowd, and we know you get paid to be here. There are celebs who actually game, but they are mostly absent from these awards. The PCAs will have gamers from around the community presenting awards. These people represent the Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and PC delegations. VOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEEE

We can also bypass the gatekeeping of the VGAs with the PCAs. The award winners of each category will be determined by the votes of gamers and fans. The VGA’s use fan votes as a small percentage of the overall fan vote to determine a winner. Most of the the weighted votes come from journalist, pundits and members of the industry. This is why broken and unfinished games have won awards. Given Thrash should’ve hid the voting results, until after the show or award for that category is given. This is still better to have he players determine it. VOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEEE

When we say VOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEEE, we need others to help determine what games were actually good. It will be interesting to see how the PCA’s results stack up against VGA’s. This can go along way in illustrating corporate bias, corpo agendas and the disconnect between publishers, devs and fans.

Also VOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEEE, show is Jan 14th 6EST/3PST