A little late with this as we were all away yesterday enjoying the Bank Holiday sunshine. Or playing Bioshock in a darkened attic.
Anyway, The Best of Games Convention results were announced on Friday evening, revealing the best games shown at the event in 10 categories. The awards were open to all exhibitors demonstrating playable code on the show floor. I'm not quite sure who the judging panel were, but here are the results:
In the PC category: Crysis (Electronic Arts GmbH) In the Xbox category: BioShock (Take 2 Interactive GmbH) In the PSP category: God of War: Chains of Olympus (Sony Computer Entertainment GmbH) In the PS2 category: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH) In the PS3 category: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH In the Wii category: Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (SEGA Germany GmbH) In the NDS category: Eye Training (Nintendo of Europe GmbH) In the Online category: Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos GmbH) In the Best Hardware Accessory Product category: Wii Balance Board (Nintendo of Europe GmbH) In the category Mobile: No prize was awarded in this category due to a lack of participants.
That last bit annoyed/interested me. I'm not sure what it means - were there no publishers with sufficient confidence in their mobile titles to submit them for assessment? There were certainly several titles revealed at the events as my post last week mentioned and the original press release on the awards event initially stated that Electronics Arts had submitted two games for consideration: Skate and Medal of Honor Airborne. Is this an indictment of the awards themselves or of the games? Who is not taking who seriously?
Apart from that, not many surprises, apart from Age of Conan beating Hellgate: London and Enemy Territory Quake Wars to the Online award.
