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The game critics have spoken, and the 2010 E3 Game Critics Awards winners have been chosen. Check out a Best of Show that isn’t a game, big wins for EA and Rage and a little vindication for our E3 awards.
The Game Critics have spoken, these are the best of E3 nominees for this year…
Lots of sites and magazines will tell you what they thought the best stuff at E3 was. Heck, we did! But only one set of awards are the result of the biggest outlets joining forces.
Game Critics Awards are one of the most sought after badges of honour in the gaming industry, but does wining Best of E3 predict a retail success or impact the sales of a video game?
The official Game Critics Best of E3 2009 award nominee list has been released, with Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2 punctuating EA and Sony’s nomination domination.
Last week the Game Critics Best of E3 finalists were announced with much fanfare and debate.
Today, I turned in Kotaku’s official ballot for who we think the winners should be. I have to say this was one of the harder years to judge. In particular you had games like Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet all vying for the same awards and let’s not forget Spore, Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, LEGO Batman, etc, etc.
Hit up the jump for our official ballot and then chime in to explain how we got it all wrong.
A heated debate has erupted between the Entertainment Software Association and the Game Critics’ Awards over the eligibility of games in this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit. The dispute was prompted by Activision and Vivendi’s recent departure from the ESA and, simultaneously, from the show.
The association assumed that the departed companies’ games would no longer be eligible for any of the annual “Best of E3″ awards, given out by an independent group of Game Critics’ Awards judges at each year’s show.
But Geoff Keighley, GameTrailers executive producer and co-chairman of the Awards, said that decision hasn’t been made yet. The critics’ group, of which Kotaku managing editor Brian Crecente is also a member, still needs to meet to discuss the issue and decide how exactly to define which games are and are not eligible.
“The fact that Activision is not a registered exhibitor for E3 has brought to light the issue of how to determine the eligibility of games,” Keighley said.
