Bookend Game Awards: Best Ongoing Game

I guess this means game undergoing regular support and updates by the Devs that still have active online communities? I’ll admit some of these are tenuous... But let’s go!

• Dark Souls – The Legend Never Dies!
• Killing Floor 2 – Gets good support, new characters and areas and shit. Good dame.
• Medieval Total War 2 – Again, this is clearly going to the modders who are doing god’s own work...
• Overwatch – Updates, patches and cosmetic shit all the time. Blizzard know how to keep milking this golden goose.
• Rocket league – They love their keys and crates, that’s for sure.

And the Winner is:

                Rocket League

I’ll be honest; this is pretty much just a re-run of my best online game... Now I think about it this feels like another award that’s just there to inflate the ceremony and keep the egos good and 

massaged.

Join me next time for... Games for Impact?

Bookend Game Awards: Best Multiplayer

I’ll be honest, my multiplayer gaming has been pretty moribund this year until pretty much the last few weeks, but I have just enough that I can actually scrape together a top five for nominations:

• Killing Floor 2 – Hardly had any time to play this year, but blasting Z’s with friends is a damn fine way to spend an evening.
• Warhammer End Times: Vermintide – Same as the above, had very little chance to play, but this Left 4 Dead with rats comes highly recommended from this Bookend.
• Overwatch – I’m total garbage at it, but there’s a reason this skill based shooter is still such a phenomenon so long after it released.
• Rocket League – The only way you will ever get me to play a Football game willingly.
• Total War: Shogun 2 – I have trouble finding any friends masochistic enough to face me in a head to head campaign. But ruining their day with my autistic Total War Skills is one of the best ways I can waste an evening, and shogun 2 probably has the best mix of not being shit (*cough* Rome 2) and having decent online support.

And the Winner is:

                Rocket League

I am laughably bad at the game, but it’s a kind of fun that keep pulling me back in a way the others in the list have a hard time emulating for me. I probably recommend never starting just because it can be such a time sink. Also I hate that it has loot boxes, but every new game does nowadays, so at least they’re only cosmetic.

Next up is Best Strategy Game!