Milf Hunter Won A Steam Deck At The Game Awards And You Didn’t

One of the primary promoting gimmicks of tonight’s Game Awards was a promotion being run by Valve that might see a 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 Game Awards with an enormous Steam Deck giveaway. The firm shall be giving out a free handheld PC to a single individual each minute for the complete run of The Game Awards. (Never in historical past has somebody needed The Game 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 Game Awards through Valve’s Steam.TV web site.

It was an odd promo for a variety of causes. Firstly, as a result of as early as the primary main award presentation the present was clearly working manner over time, one thing even host Geoff Keighley needed to acknowledge in relation to the giveaway. And secondly, due to who gained.

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 have been witness to:

People who have been both disillusioned (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 within the United States throughout all of Twitter.

Given “Milf Hunter” can be the title of a porn outlet, and The Game Awards have nearly zero cultural penetration exterior this bubble, you’ll be able to perceive some folks’s confusion:

I imply, it’s undoubtedly the place that web site is heading, don’t get me fallacious. Just not tonight.

If you missed this, or some other Game Awards stuff, we’ve bought you lined with this roundup, which incorporates all the pieces from a Death Stranding 2 reveal, to a Hades 2 announcement, to Al Pacino.