2Bits: What about an Oscars equivalent for the video game industry?

In the latest installment of our gamer-vs-gamer debates known as 2Bits, a pair of Gamertell writers ponder the possibility – and possible necessity – of a major video game industry award.

Would an awards ceremony the size and spectacle of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science’s (AMPAS) Oscars be a positive and beneficial annual event for the industry or would it simply implode due to politics and overt commercialism?

Read opposing takes on the possibility (or actuality) of such an industry event:

• Game industry “Oscars” would be destroyed by its own politics
• Video game industry needs an Oscar-styled event (and it may already have one)

And, for a bit o’ history here are some…

Previous 2Bits:

E3 – Open, Closed or Who Really Cares?

• E3 should open its doors, let the people flow
• Keep those E3 doors closed
• It doesn’t matter whether E3 goes public or not

Zombies – Friends or Foes?

• Zombies simply misunderstood members of circle of life
• Zombies, the undead menace