IGN's Games of the Year

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IGN's 2023 Games of the Year - lemm.ee

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is IGN’s game of the year, with Baldur’s Gate 3 as the close second.

The only reason I wish it was BG3 would be for the industry to know there is absolutely still a market for these kind of games. At the same time I think they realize that now anyway. It will be interesting to see the uptick in that game type over the next 3-5 years.
After the layoffs, it’s clear that the studio doesn’t care about their devs or the industry, for that alone Baldur’s Gate doesn’t deserve the win.
Larian didn’t lay anyone off. Hasbro, a completely different company, laid people who worked on DnD and MTG off at WotC.