Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, for the Sony PS3, has not only won the influential Game Critics Awards “Best In Show” for E3 2009 (the world’s largest videogames trade show), but also won most awards.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the Sony PS3 and Brutal Legend, Tim “Psychonauts” Schafer’s freeroaming heavy metal action adventure, Brutal Legend, starring Jack Black, have dominated the influential Game Critics Best Of E3 2009 awards, taking four nominations apiece, including Best Of Show.
LEGO Batman: probably not the first game you think of when there are cries of ‘Games are corrupting our children!’ being thrown around. Nevertheless, the title has earned the ire of the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, an organisation “devoted to limiting the impact of commercial culture on children”.
The world’s longest-running gaming awards ceremony held its 26th annual event on Friday. Over 850,000 votes were cast to decide the winners of the prestigious Golden Joysticks and it’s pretty clear that Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare owned the competition, seeing off the likes of Portal, Crysis and World of Warcraft to secure its victory.