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2011 was a stunning year for gaming, with a huge number of quality titles being released in the last 12 months. While we were treated with plenty of worthy contenders, especially at the end of the year, the runner up for our Game of the Year award is Portal 2, which appeared back in April.
We already praised the fir... |
31 December 2011
05:01 GMT |
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December is well underway, although there is no snow around yet, but the launch season is well behind us and we get a respite ahead of a pretty busy first few months of 2012, which means we have no new reviews to deliver for the week.Instead, we have started a Softpedia branded Game of the Year series which looks bac... |
11 December 2011
06:21 GMT |
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A quick look at the major ratings sites and especially at Metacritic can show anyone that there are more high quality games launched in 2011 than in 2010 and with the increased competition between publishers and better tech available to developers the same will probably be true next year.It's impossible for one ... |
10 December 2011
07:01 GMT |
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The 29th edition of the GamesMasters Golden Joysticks Awards has taken place in London and the big winner of the night was Portal 2, the first person puzzle and platformer created by Valve, which picked up the Alienware sponsored Ultimate Game of the Year prize.The awards are voted on by the gaming public and managed... |
24 October 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Rockstar has confirmed that its extremely successful Red Dead Redemption will be re-released this fall in the form of a Game of the Year edition for consoles, which includes all the previously launched downloadable content up until now.Rockstar has published major hits in the last two years, with the recent L.A. Noir... |
14 September 2011
04:51 GMT |
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The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has given out its video-game-oriented awards and the big winner was Mass Effect 2, the role-playing and action game from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, which managed to be named Game of the Year and also managed to get story and role-playing awards.Ray Mu... |
11 February 2011
09:18 GMT |
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Red Dead Redemption was one of the biggest surprises of the year, as even if it came from Rockstar, specifically, the company's San Diego studio, there were a lot of concerns about its quality.
In the end, the game went on to gain critical acclaim, commercial success and brought back the Red Dead franchise wi... |
13 December 2010
06:00 GMT |
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The Spike Video Game Awards are taking place this Saturday and at the end some games will walk away with prizes and one lucky title will get the title of Game of the Year, which it will proudly display until next year. A full list of the nominees is here on Softpedia. Some new titles will be confirmed for 2012... |
11 December 2010
12:11 GMT |
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Gearbox Software, as the developer, and 2K Games, as the publisher, have announced that those gamers who pick up the Game of the Year edition of the Borderlands shooter will get early access to the demo version of the long in development Duke Nukem Forever.The GOTY edition of Borderlands comes packed with all the dow... |
6 October 2010
04:10 GMT |
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Fallout 3, the post apocalyptic role playing experience from Bethesda, has recently been re-released in a Game of the Year edition, which contains all the patches and expansions the title has received from the developer. Now, the videogame has another award to its name, this one coming from Future Publishing, to just... |
2 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Media Molecule managed to make a big impact with last year's LittleBigPlanet, a combination of platformer and powerful content editor exclusive to the PlayStation 3. And now, the developers and Sony are saying that they plan to release a Game of the Year Edition of the title, set to offer players more content fo... |
8 September 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Epic Games has recently confirmed that it has put together and that it plans to launch a new version of its very popular Gears of War 2 over the shoulder shooter and now we finally have a release date for it.The Game of the Year edition of the multi-million seller will be on store shelves on September 1 and will allo... |
27 August 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Sony definitely had a tough time with exclusive games coming to its PlayStation 3 console as there haven't been a lot of titles made only for its big black box, which coincidently became a lot slimmer yesterday thanks to the announcement of the PS3 Slim. But one of its most interesting exclusives was LittleBigP... |
20 August 2009
02:17 GMT |
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The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced a full list of nominees for the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, held since 1998. The nominations and the awards are decided by people from the gaming industry, which means that they tend to show how the industry itself sees the gaming scene and which t... |
29 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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GameTrailers is one of the most interesting manifestations in the field of gaming commentary for the last year. The guys behind it have used video as a way to review and comment on games, while also offering all the latest trailers, developer videos and commercials related to upcoming releases.They have chosen their ... |
8 January 2009
14:11 GMT |
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I've already recommended Fallout 3 as a Game for Christmas, because a player needs time and a festive setting to fully take in and comprehend the world of Fallout 3, a world set 200 years after a nuclear exchange obliterated civilization.Why is Fallout 3 the best role playing game of the year? Mainly because it ... |
30 December 2008
20:31 GMT |
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Every outlet in the press that covers videogames does an end of the year segment awarding a Game of the Year for those titles which have really impressed over the recent 12 months. It's a good idea, as it manages to boil down the most significant releases of the recent period and gives those not following the ne... |
28 December 2008
17:51 GMT |
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As the end of 2008 draws ever near, most sites and magazines reporting on videogames are getting ready to present a host of awards, showing which titles impressed editors and players alike during the closing year. Our awards will be presented during the final days of December. IGN, one of the leading sites reporting ... |
22 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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