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One of the principle promoting gimmicks of tonight’s Game Awards was a promotion being run by Valve that will see a viewer win one of many firm’s prized Steam Deck handhelds each minute.
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As we reported final week, to be eligible you needed to be watching the present on Valve’s personal Steam.TV web site:
As introduced November 30, Valve is celebrating The Game Awards with a large Steam Deck giveaway. The firm will probably be giving out a free handheld PC to a single particular person each minute for the whole run of The Game Awards. (Never in historical past has somebody wished The Game Awards to run lengthy, till now…) To have an opportunity, you’ll have to first register for the drawing, which you are able to do now, then watch The Game Awards through Valve’s Steam.TV web site.
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It was an odd promo for numerous causes. Firstly, as a result of as early as the primary main award presentation the present was clearly working approach over time, one thing even host Geoff Keighley needed to acknowledge in relation to the giveaway. And secondly, due to who received.
During Christopher Judge’s acceptance speech, which, sure, did run lengthy however was additionally extremely emotional and heart-warming, the winners of Steam Decks began popping up. So whereas Judge was up there, pouring out his coronary heart, the remainder of us had been witness to:
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People who had been both dissatisfied (a minority) or who discovered it extremely humorous (the bulk) started tweeting their congratulations to Mr or Mrs Hunter, which led at one level to “Milf Hunter” changing into a trending matter within the United States throughout all of Twitter.
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Given “Milf Hunter” can also be the identify of a porn outlet, and The Game Awards have virtually zero cultural penetration outdoors this bubble, you possibly can perceive some folks’s confusion:
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I imply, it’s undoubtedly the place that web site is heading, don’t get me incorrect. Just not tonight.
If you missed this, or some other Game Awards stuff, we’ve acquired you lined with this roundup, which incorporates all the pieces from a Death Stranding 2 reveal, to a Hades 2 announcement, to Al Pacino.
