4th Pegasus Ceremony Winners: Video Game Cesars Award 4 Grand Prizes A Plague Tale – Requiem

On Thursday, March 9, the Academy of Art and Technique of Video Games held its fourth award ceremony, which honors the best French and international video game productions released in 2022. 2,000 professionals and professionals who are members of the Academy of Video Game Art and Techniques. As a result of voting in two rounds in January and February, the winners were identified, whose names were announced last night.

A very pleasant surprise success in 2019, the game A Tale of the Plague – Innocencewhich follows two children’s harrowing journey through a plague-ravaged French kingdom in the 14th century, was awarded a brilliant sequel, Big Dark, and released last year: The Tale of the Plague – Requiem.

Still being developed by the talented Bordeaux studio Asobo, who we told you all the good things we thought about it, the game was the big winner of the night with no less than four prizes: Narrative Excellence, Visual Excellence, Best World Sound and Audience Award.

We can add the 5th, the composer Olivier Derivier, who of course received the honorary prize, but also signed – once again – the magnificent score of this diptych, which we also remember will soon be adapted by Mathieu. tour.

Among other awarded titles (and mentioned on the site) is the game Ring of EldenPegasus for Best Foreign Video Game of 2022. Based on the world whose foundations were created by George RR Martin, Japanese studio From Software has delivered an extraordinary open-world game with this title, a relentless and fascinating peak of dark fantasy, wrapped in hypnotic art direction.

A masterful title that we have not finished exhausting the riches we have talked about at length. Just a year after its release, the game became a cultural phenomenon, selling 20 million copies.

We will conclude with a few words about solidarity a trampThe first and impressive game developed by the French studio BlueTwelve, which we did not discuss on the site due to lack of time.

Published by Annapurna Interactive, the video game subsidiary of the independent Hollywood studio Annapurna Pictures (which, as you may recall, created beautiful titles such as Zero Dark Thirty, Foxcatcher or Her), a tramp Walks away with 3 awards including Video Game of the Year.

What does it look like ? for that!

The story tells about the journey of a stray cat who falls into a city populated by robots, machines and mutated bacteria and is going to return to the surface with the help of his plane companion B-12. A glorious journey, sometimes a moving one, that we strongly encourage you to do if you haven’t gotten your hands on this game yet.