One of many fundamental promoting gimmicks of tonight’s Recreation Awards was a promotion being run by Valve that will see one viewer win one of many firm’s prized Steam Deck handhelds each minute.
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 Recreation Awards with an enormous Steam Deck giveaway. The corporate will probably be giving out a free handheld PC to a single individual each minute for your complete run of The Recreation Awards. (By no means in historical past has somebody needed The Recreation Awards to run lengthy, till now…) To have an opportunity, you’ll must first register for the drawing, which you are able to do now, then watch The Recreation Awards through Valve’s Steam.TV web site.
It was a promo humorous for numerous causes. Firstly as a result of as early as the primary main award presentation the present was clearly working method over time, one thing even host Geoff Keighley needed to acknowledge in relation to the giveaway, however secondly due to who received.
Throughout Christopher Choose’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 Choose was up there pouring out his coronary heart, the remainder of us had been witness to:
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Individuals who had been both upset (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” turning into a trending matter in america throughout all of Twitter.
Given “Milf Hunter” can also be the title of a porn outlet, and The Recreation Awards have nearly zero cultural penetration outdoors this bubble, you’ll be able to perceive some folks’s confusion:
I imply, it’s positively the place this website is heading, don’t get me mistaken. Simply not tonight.
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