THE EDGE ALTERNATIVE AWARDS
MOST ELDRITCH OBELISKS
MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR
Developer Asobo Studio Publisher Microsoft Game Studios Format PC
It’s incredible that a flight simulator should have Paradise Killer licked for this award. The culprit? Asobo’s Azure-powered procgen tech, which fills in gaps in Bing Maps’ data. Palm trees became dark pillars, while Melbourne sprouted a tall, thin, dread-inducing monolith. Comforting to know that, in some universes at least, that feeling can be patched out.
BIGGEST TANTRUM
EPIC VS APPLE
Developer/publisher Apple, Epic Games
It wasn’t that Tim Sweeney didn’t run something of a monopoly on mobile games, and developers ought to be given a much fairer share of their games’ revenue. But the whole thing came off looking rather petulant, as multi-billion dollar company Epic Games played silly, overly public games to secure a bigger slice of the pie for others, but also very much itself, during a summer where we had plenty of other priorities.
