***** Previous 2023 Extra Inning Softball National High School Players of the Week If possible, contact info if we’d like more info or quotesĮmail your info and photos (1-4 as available) by the deadline of Monday, ( 3 pm EST/noon PST) to.Any interesting background on the player.Stats for the week (be as detailed as possible!).Grad Year (example: Class of 2023 or Senior).We’re looking for standouts who excelled in the circle, at the plate or in the field so be sure to nominate your favorite performance(s) by submitting the following: This week’s action should be from Sunday, Apthrough Saturday, May 6, 2023. The honoree will be announced each week, usually on Tuesdays, with the deadline for submitting the nominations each Monday at 3 pm EST/noon PST. Who will take home the award this week?Įach week during the Spring high school season, Extra Inning Softball will honor a National High School Player of the Week. Most recently, it added auxiliary programs, such as Future Class, to promote diversity in editorial and video creation, along with the Games For Impact category to highlight games with meaningful messages.Kaitlyn Pallozzi from Michigan was last week’s Extra Inning Softball National Player of the Week after throwing two perfect games. While smaller publications and those focused on titles from minority developers have less say in what games get spotlighted, The Game Awards has slowly embraced change since its inception in 2008. “You guys like… Like you know there’s more to indie games than Devolver and Annapurna, right?” Paste Magazine’s Dia Lacina said on Twitter after seeing the nominations. Other titles, including Wildermyth, TOEM, and Valheim, received little to no attention. However, there’s less transparency in which outlets cast a vote, and it naturally means some games get overlooked.įor example, the indie category features 12 Minutes, a game with a budget and promotional campaign that far exceeded most indie titles, and Death’s Door, from a publisher successful enough to have recently entered the public markets. Over 100 outlets submit their ballots of five choices for each category, and the games that appear the most often end up with nominations. Part of the confusion stems from how The Game Awards groups its nominees. Best Art Direction included Ember Labs’ Kena: Bridge of Spirits as that category’s only indie representative, while games such as Chicory: A Colorful Tale and Sable were relegated to indie categories or forgotten entirely. Other categories had surprises of their own. Some expressed disbelief that Cyberpunk 2077 made an appearance in the Best RPG category, after it released in an unplayable state and was delisted on the PlayStation Store for weeks after its launch. “Sadly not surprised but would have loved to see more indie rep – Chicory, Death’s Door, Inscryption, TOEM, and more really made this year shine,” IGN senior editor Jonathan Dornbrush said after the nominations were announced. ![]() The official Metacritic Twitter account responded to The Game Awards’ announcement with a list of games that received higher critical scores, but no nominations, including Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 5. The Game of the Year category features Metroid Dread, Deathloop, It Takes Two, Psychonauts 2, and Resident Evil Village.Īward nominations inevitably cause differences in opinion, but the nominations for game of the year and other categories have garnered particularly heated discussion. The Game Awards video announcement mistakenly attributed Genshin Impact to Square Enix, instead of developer and publisher miHoYo, but it’s not included in the 10 nominations. ![]() Xbox and Bethesda, one company since Microsoft acquired ZeniMax, have the most nominations, with 20 titles between them, followed by Sony Interactive with 11, and EA and Square Enix with 10 each. Deathloop, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Psychonauts 2, and It Takes Two lead with the most nominations out of the 107 total games and creators included. The Game Awards 2021 is broadcasting live once more on December 8, and host Geoff Keighley has announced which games are taking the spotlight this year.
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