Kickstarter had a great 2015 and ran up pledges to the tune of over $46 million, even though video games had a 70% chance of failing on that crowdfunding platform.

Mouldy sandwiches! Flat coke! A two-week old portion of Lasagna that has developed sentience and sounds suspiciously just like Brian Blessed! Yessir, the Oscars can kiss our flattened asses when it comes to presentation. And in case you missed out on the Lazygamer Awards this week, here’s the complete wrap of it. In video form! And words!

Speed may be the domain of all but the richest of playboys, but the digital domain of fast cars and flashy rides is open to anyone with a console. Driving games are racing towards a plateau, where graphics are that much closer to breaching the uncanny valley

Multiplayer is bigger than ever these days, with every game out there having some element of it within its code. Some games nail it, others don’t. But there was one champ this year, that announced its presence with a winning attitude and technical wizardry.

The following bout is scheduled for one fall, and is for the Lazygamer 2015 best fighting game championship! Are you ready? Are you ready? LET’S GET IT ON! MY GOD KING IT’S ALREADY OVER! WE HAVE A NEW CHAMP! A NEW CHAMP!

2015 may not have had as many shooter games saturating the market as before, but those that did make it, were pure quality. Of course, only one shooter game could be crowned king. And the winner is…

2015 saw plenty of experimentation done by smaller studios, as well as the return of an old favourite or two. And the award for the best Indie game of 2015 goes to…

Sony had its fair share of exclusives this year, which were a mixed bag of decent and lacklustre. It was a skint year for great PlayStation exclusives, something that Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Michael Ephraim felt would be rectified in 2016.