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Pity the poor awards voters. Yes, From Software’s Elden Ring will surely win Game Of The Year just about everywhere, but what about all the other categories? Anyone doing a halfway-decent job at judging this year’s best narrative game or the best debut game will still have to spend hundreds of hours to get through the longlist. And while you might not sympathise with the plight of those poor game industry voters who get to play dozens of games, the practical impossibility of

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