Rezzed 2012: Eurogamer’s Game of the Show is Hotline Miami
Rezzed is over! If you came along, thank you so much. If you didn’t, hopefully you liked some of the headlines you saw and will think about it next year. As far as I know everyone had a great time, so we’re certainly aiming to do it again! In general it all went very smoothly. Peter Molyneux was a bit late for his session because he was running up and down the seafront in a tracksuit (no joke), but he was lots of fun when he made it to the lectern, and everybody was incredibly polite and friendly throughout the whole event, which always makes a huge difference. The most haphazard thing was probably the logistical crunch in the 10 minutes before Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Gamejam session on Saturday, for which we needed over a dozen people on stage, with computers, with multiple head mics and hand mics, and with a roaming camera to relay shots of the games onto the big screen. I think the result – especially with our ponytailed AV hero Bart bouncing around the stage trying to shoot footage from over Alec Meer’s shoulder – was likably shambolic and entertaining rather than a total nightmare, and the audience seemed to agree. (We’ll have a video of it online at some point so you can judge for yourself.) Read more…
