Last night, Thursday 5th March, saw the MCV/Develop Awards 2020 take place at The Brewery in central London, UK. Dating back almost 20 years, the MCV and Develop Awards were combined this year into a single event, aiming to "bring together every aspect of our multi-faceted, multi-talented industry".
Nominees for the awards below were selected by a grand jury of 50 industry veterans, with 5,000 MCV/Develop subscribers then casting their votes to see who would take each category. Nintendo managed to win two awards - one for 'Major Publisher of the Year', and one for 'Platform of the Year' - but you can see the entire list right here:
DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS
Development Tool of the Year
UnityExternal Development Partner of the Year
Sumo DigitalRecruitment Agency of the Year
AmiqusOUTSTANDING STUDIOS
Major Studio of the Year
Media Molecule
Indie Studio of the Year
Hello GamesINNOVATION IN GAMES
Visual Innovation of the Year
ZA/UM for Disco ElysiumAudio Innovation of the Year
Creative Assembly for Total War: Three KingdomsGameplay Innovation of the Year
Media Molecule for DreamsNarrative Innovation of the Year
Supermassive for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of MedanREACHING AUDIENCES
PR Agency of the Year
Indigo PearlCreative Agency of the Year
Fourth FloorCampaign of the Year
Xbox Game Pass – XboxMedia Brand of the Year
EurogamerPUBLISHING AND PLATFORMS
Major Publisher of the Year
NintendoIndie Publisher of the Year
Team17Platform of the Year
Nintendo SwitchRETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION
Retailer of the Year
AmazonDistributor of the Year
Koch MediaSPECIAL HONOURS
Games for a Better World
Emily Mitchell for Fractured MindsMCV/DEVELOP LEGEND
Rare
Earlier this week, a full list of nominees for the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards was also revealed with Luigi's Mansion 3 doing particularly well for itself.
Well done to all the winners, although Nintendo's trophy cabinet must be struggling to cope at this point.
[source mcvuk.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Well deserved, in my opinion
@ryancraddock Just thought I'd let you know it's "Platform of the Year", not "Platformer of the Year" (though if it was SMM2 would've taken it easily). Otherwise, good article and well deserved winners.
They scored the PLATFORM of the Year award, not PLATFORMER of the Year.
@TheAwesomeBowser You’ve said the same thing twice, lol.
@Markiemania95 Damn auto-correct.
@TheAwesomeBowser Cheers - I must be far too used to writing 'platformer' all day! That's fixed 🙂
Makes sense with both the PS4 and Xbox One's platforms slowing in advance of their next gen successors releasing. Switch saw growth YOY and the numbers speak for themselves, well deserved Nintendo!! Going forwards however is where it gets interesting.
Well deserving, if Nintendo lost to Sony or Microsoft at this point, we'd have a problem.
After their comeback with the Switch, Nintendo deserves all the awards it can get.
Such is the Power of Nintendo!
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