kore wa atsui desuyo!

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Wow...

The Japanese government is putting on their own award show for games and the U.S. government it trying to hurt the game industry so they can "protect the children", in other words, make themselves look good.

If only the U.S. had a government that wasn't so full of themselves and actually get something done once in a while.

...if only our government was so supportive of the industry here. it would be nice hearing more acclaim and less legislation, for once.

Nintendo will win all of them

This is very interesting indeed and I think there should be a equivalent award ceremony in the North America and Europe as well. There could be awards for of course, best Game, best Gameplay, best Level design, best Publisher and bring it one step further for raising the names in the industry.

We all know Schafer and Molyneux, but what about up and coming designers? It would be really cool if the gaming industry would head to the same direction of being renowned regarding Game Designers and Developers. Who are, or better yet, will be the Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg of the Gaming industry? I think that would raise the stakes of respect the non game playing public towards the gaming industry.

Nice! Way to promote games, but their biggest problem is that they need more online games that the rest of the world enjoys.

thats why i love japan and the japanese games, they do everything to make the game so perfect and wierd, unlike the western devolopers (except for Ubi and Monoloth) they jus think about marketing and sell crap.
bellieve me,90% of my collection is japanese games.

Nice strategy... bring all your competetors to your level!

very interesting..

@LiliShake
No, it doesn't. However, games are an *absurdly* safe political target. Politicians pray for such easy "issues"; ones that they can harp on and on about, that are one sided, and nobody is seriously going to oppose.

I guarantee they'd change their tune should it be opportune to do so.

"Hello? Utah? Yeah, EA calling. We're a multi-billion dollar company and we'd like to relocate our staff and studios to your fine state. Oh, and we're projecting growth over the next 10 years, so we'll need to hire more people. What can you offer us?"

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My government is persecuting our game industry.

Japan's government is going to honor it's game industry.

Of course there may not be much Japan's government can do. Japanese developers are pretty much sticking with their tried and true formulas for making games. Something seriously needs to happen with Japanese gaming. A fresh breeze through a very stale creative environment would be welcome.

Even Japanese gamers themselves have lost interest in console games. They are devoted to their portable units now with no looking back.

chikahiro94: Hopefully the US and the rest of Europe will follow.

Lawl. The American government hates video games.

A little bit of competition will be good for the overall industry.

@MasterAsh42
The Japanese are perfectly capable of playing "follow the leader" and "me too," remember - a lot of their stuff doesn't make it over here. The cost of translation/localization is a "crap barrier" of sorts (the disadvantage being small budget/niche titles don't make it over, either) - no publisher wants to go through the expense of bringing over something they know isn't that good, or average at best (its a lot easier to see that after the title is out and you see sales figures and reviews). The reason you see so much crap here is the crap was developed here - if you went over there, you'd see their garbage that never leaves the country.

Good to see Japan is taking Korea seriously and is following Korea and England's lead (both have programs to actively encourage domestic game development). Hopefully the US and the rest of Europe will follow.

BTW - do you not like those genres? Or do you not like the endless clones? Just curious...

good idea i'd watch it

a good step for japan to make that kind of award, gives the creators something to look forward to for their hardwork.

This is the kind of things games need, one, really big awards show like the movie's Acadamy Awards.

Nice. Too bad OUR country can't recognize greatness when they see it.

I hope that Japan acts more fair when it comes to foreign nominees, they aren't exactly a nation known for it's tolerance of foreigners.

KAWAII!

I just hope they're fair to other developers, ie US and Europe, when it comes to these awards. I can see a few nominated, and none actually winning. Also worried about corruption in this, like a company paying blah blah blah to have a certain game win and crap like that.

Japan gest everything cool.

Interesting support on the surface... I wonder what kind of financial incentives are happening in the background???

Now if only the American government was just as enthusiastic about gaming as the Japanese... Instead, we have Hilary Clinton and Jack Thompson.

MasterAsh42 is right, japanese games is the sh*t i can't imagine a gaming world without japanese games.

Wish they would do the same in Australia ... though there are roumers of an event like E3 in Perth ...

This sounds great. I hope they dont focus too much on the newer games and developers out there. People like Yu Suzuki, creator of the Shenmue series deserves an award at an event like this. Lord knows miyamoto and kojima will get a barrell full of awards.

Why does other governments support video games and the U.S. always seem to bash them?

ok..

Wow. . .I hope the push pays off, because I shudder at a future of decreased Japanese presense in the industry; a future with shelves 99% lined with stagnant FPSs, driving fare, urban sandoxes, and sports titles (as opposed to the current, oh, 80%).

I love Japan.

Interesting.

seems interesting

Very, very cool!

Am I right to believe this is the only official gaming awards seeing that the government of Japan is backing it instead of a Tv program or channel?

nice, does anyone know what the profile levels mean, please PM me about it.

Sounds a lot better than G4 and Spike TV's pathetic attempts at awards.

at least some governments know that games are actually beneficial...

Great!! A REAL awatd show, No more celebrities who know nothing.

hmm thats a positive spin from "the man" the gaming community is actually getting its support sweet!

finally a serious game award show

awsome

I was actually thinking about when something like this would happen. It sounds good.

That is so cool. They should have something similar to this for the other two major markets. A professional award show, not some stupid "edgey" thing like the Spike TV awards, would be something that might give our industry some credibility.