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The Video Game Awards Nominees For 2011

The nominees for 2011′s Video Game Awards include a number of expected and unexpected titles. This full list doesn’t just include the nominees for game of the year, and best game for each platform, but the titles that stood out in their particular genres.


November 6, 2011
News

The Sports Video Games Of The Year

Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honours, the uncommon diversity of sports video games support a class of awards unique to the genre. These are Kotaku’s Stick Jockey Sports Video Games of the Year.


October 15, 2011
News

LA Noire Wins Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Award

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It’s not in the business of making games any more and owes its employees and creditors a truckload of cash, but these niggling issues haven’t stopped Team Bondi from picking up a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics for its MotionScan technology in LA Noire.


August 12, 2011
News

The UK’s Game Media Awards Announce Its Finalists

On October 26th, Develop and MCV will announce the winners of the UK Game Media Awards at a swanky reception that will permit those lucky few to use the prefix “award-winning” in conjunction with their job titles/publications. Click through to see the nominees. [Develop]


April 19, 2011
In Real Life

Farm, Chill, Whatever—It’s All Cool With Facebook Game Pot Farm

Virtual agriculture has recently become a bit more spliffy.


March 8, 2011
PlayStation

These Are 2010′s Best PlayStation Network Games

Last month Sony asked PlayStation 3 owners to vote for the best PlayStation Network Games of 2010 across four different categories. Only two of the winners directly involved zombies.


February 16, 2011
PlayStation

You Decide The Best PlayStation Network Games Of 2010

Sony is giving players the chance to honour upon their favourite downloadable titles of 2010 in the first-ever PlayStation Network Gamers’ Choice Awards. Which of the 20 nominees will walk away with top honours?


February 8, 2011
News

These Games Had 2010′s Most Amazing Graphics (And Trailers!)

Earlier this month, the Visual Effects Society honoured the winners of the 9th annual VES Awards, meant to recognise the best achievements in special effects and visuals for movies, commercials, TV, animation and, yes, video games.


February 5, 2011
News

A Fistful Of Dollars Stopped A Nomination For Red Dead Redemption

Check out that list of games nominated for the Writers Guild’s Video Game Writing Award. Seem like anyone’s missing? Well, there’s neither Red Dead Redemption nor anything from BioWare. The Guild says these games makers “refused” to submit a script.


January 13, 2011
In Real Life

Limbo Leads Developers Choice Award Nominations

BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 is nominated for five of 10 awards at the 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption is up for six. Playdead’s downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game Limbo has them both beat.