The Game Awards: Highguard’s Tencent Reveal Sparked Backlash
Alright. Let’s talk about the mess. For years, Geoff Keighley has positioned The Game Awards as gaming’s big night. The Oscars, but with fewer tuxedos and more world premieres. Sometimes it works. Sometimes we get genuinely cool announcements. And sometimes we get whatever just happened with Highguard. If you’ve been anywhere near Twitter, Reddit, or YouTube lately, you already know the vibe...it's not good. Let’s break this down before we put on the tinfoil hat. The Highguard Reveal That Didn’t Land Highguard was positioned as the final reveal of the show. That slot is sacred territory. Historically, it’s where something massive lives. The kind of reveal that makes chat explode and YouTube clips hit a million views overnight. Instead, viewers got what seemed like a half-assed hero shooter. Not an unplayable disaster. Not a scam. Just a fairly bleh-looking, free-to-play […]
