Star Wars: Beyond Victory just picked up a nice little win before the actual awards are even handed out: the mixed-reality experience has been nominated for The Webby Awards in the Best Immersive Storytelling category, and fans can now vote for it in the People’s Voice ballot. ILM shared the nomination this week through its official channels, which is a pretty solid sign that Beyond Victory is still getting noticed for trying something a bit stranger and more ambitious than the average Star Wars game.
That honestly feels like a good fit. From the start, Beyond Victory was pitched less like a standard action game and more like a mixed-reality playset built around podracing, original characters, and interactive storytelling. The official StarWars.com game page describes it as an original story blending podracing, narrative, and mixed-reality play, and notes that it launched on October 7, 2025 for Meta Quest 3 and 3S.
We’ve covered the project from a few different angles already, and this nomination makes those earlier pieces feel a little more connected now. In our review of Star Wars: Beyond Victory, we called it a visually bold experiment that did some genuinely interesting things with mixed reality, even when it did not hit every turn at full speed. Later, our look at how ILM’s art department designed Beyond Victory showed just how much visual development went into making the whole thing feel like Star Wars instead of just “VR with a famous logo attached.” Those two angles matter here, because “immersive storytelling” is exactly where Beyond Victory was always trying to make its case.
And that is probably the real story behind the nomination. Whatever you think of Beyond Victory as a game, it was clearly swinging for something more specific than safe franchise comfort food. It wanted to turn Star Wars into something you could stage on a table, lean into, and interact with in a way that felt halfway between a playset, a storybook, and a cockpit fantasy. That is exactly the kind of space where an “immersive storytelling” nomination makes sense.
So if you liked what ILM pulled off here, or you just want to support one of the more experimental Star Wars projects in recent memory, this is a pretty easy call: go cast a vote for Star Wars: Beyond Victory. A Webby is not going to reshape the galaxy overnight, but it is still a nice reminder that when Star Wars gets a little weird, people do notice. reminder that Star Wars can get experimental and still get noticed for it.
