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Dispatch Is GOTY Eligible at Game Awards for Second Year in a Row

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Dispatch Is GOTY Eligible at Game Awards for Second Year in a Row

AdHoc's episodic game was released before the 2025 eligibility deadline, but not in time for judges to play the full season

This might be a first: Dispatch, the episodic superhero narrative game, is eligible for all the major categories at The Game Awards for the second year running.

Representatives for the developer AdHoc Studio told Polygon that Dispatch's eligibility for the 2026 awards had been confirmed by TGA owner and host Geoff Keighley. This is despite the fact that all eight episodes of the game's first season were released by Nov. 12, 2025 — before the Nov. 21 eligibility cutoff date for the 2025 awards.

That doesn't mean judges were able to play the whole season in time, however. Voting for nominations at The Game Awards usually takes place earlier in November. In a statement provided via email, AdHoc said, "Last year we were nominated for Best Debut Indie Game even though judges had only played half the season, which was pretty wild and definitely meant a lot to our team." At the time, AdHoc did not provide early copies of episodes to press ahead of their release dates, so jury members were in the midst of the game as nominations were being considered.

It's understandable that AdHoc is hoping The Game Awards jury will consider Dispatch a second time around. Although it secured a Debut Indie Game nomination at the time , the game performed even better at awards ceremonies that took place after the end of the calendar year, when the full season's impact had a chance to sink in with voting bodies.


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