Spiketrap is guessing who will win at The Game Awards.
Spiketrap is guessing who will win at The Game Awards.
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Spiketrap: Gamers favor The Last of Us Part II and Animal Crossing: New Horizons for The Game Awards

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Awards are taking place this evening as a huge online event that has outgrown the term “the Oscars of gaming.” But if you don’t want to wait to know who audiences favor, you can check with the conversation intelligence platform Spiketrap.

Spiketrap measures the audience sentiment using artificial intelligence techniques, drilling down into the biggest social media platforms to find out what people favor or don’t like. And this year, the company applied its AI to studying the favorites for gamers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.