New York Game Awards
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The New York Game Awards is an annual award show honoring video games by nonprofit New York Videogame Critics Circle (NYVGCC). The first awards were held in 2012, honoring previous year's contributions to the video game industry and showcases the group's education work with underserved communities. New York Videogame Critics Circle's stated goals are to promote awareness of, and education for, video games writing and journalism in the New York City area.
Melissa Hutchison won Best Acting for her role as Clementine in The Walking Dead.
Steven Ogg won Best Acting for his role as Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto V.
Trey Parker won Best Acting for his performances in South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Her Story (video game)
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Her Story is an interactive film video game written and directed by Sam Barlow. It was released on 24 June 2015 for iOS, OS X, and Windows, and the following year for Android. In the game, the player searches and sorts through a database of video clips from fictional police interviews, and uses the clips to solve the case of a missing man. The police interviews focus on the man's wife, Hannah Smith, portrayed by British musician Viva Seifert.
Barlow decided to implement live action footage into the game after becoming frustrated with the technical challenge of translating an actor's performance into a game engine.
After the filming was complete, Barlow ran the footage through two VHS players, to make it resemble video from the time period of 1994.
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