Correct me if I'm wrong, but the awards are decided by voters. Meaning that what wins is not necessarily the best there is, just the most popular.TheEndBoss

Actually, they were decided by a panel of accreditted games journalists, including Jeff Gerstmann. Here's a list:

- Ricardo Torres
- Andy McNamara
- Adam Boyden
- Bradon Boyer
- Brandon Sheffield
- Brian Crecente
- Chris Baker
- Chris Kohler
- Bryn Williams
- Dan Hsu
- Dean Takahashi
- Eric Bratcher
- Francesca Reyes
- Geoff Keighley
- Jeff Gerstmann
- Jeremy Dunham
- John Davison
- John Gaudiosi
- Julianne Greer
- Libe Goad
- Marc Saltzman
- Rob Smith
- Ron Workman
- Sam Kennedy
- Shane Satterfield
- Stephen Totilo
- Talmadge Blevins
- Will Tuttle
- Zoe Flower
- Kristin Salvatore
- Chris Grant

Anyways, about the show, it seems to be getting better every year, so maybe in another 5 years or so we'll have something that isn't a giant celeb-fest. Even the rapid fire awards bit is getting shorter, and the only real problem I have with the awards is the fact that they still managed to shoehorn in a "Lets give a random celeb something" award, they don't have a Best RTS Award, the handheld awards are a unified award rather than Best DS Game and Best PSP Game and they only had 4 nominations for most categories (I would have preferred 5 for everything except GOTY, which should have 10 like Gamespot's GOTY). Most, if not all, of the award winners certainly deserved something so I'm happy with that. All they need to do other than that is reduce the advertising presence and they'll have something I'll enjoy.

[QUOTE="got_systems"]The games industry is growing. We're still a pretty niche hobby, something that people do very little or not at all, and those that do mostly don't buy too many games per year. Movies have the same problem with the price of production, but they don't collapse because movies are entrenched in culture and people watch many movies per year. Soon, the same will happen with games. whocares9

I think you spelled "feet" by mistake in your sig as "feat". Just letting you know, though your quote may be trying to trick me.

Oh man, you're right! I can't believe I haven't caught that after all this time. It's because I copied it directly from Wikiquote instead of taking the time to type it out. Thanks for the heads up.

[QUOTE="got_systems"] It was much easier last time, becuase the cost of producing a game was so low that every company could and did open up their own dev houses, plus games were seen then as a veritable gold mine, while today it's quite obvious that we're a hits based industry where making a game is a huge risk and takes a lot of capital. Vandalvideo

[QUOTE="got_systems"]The games industry is growing. We're still a pretty niche hobby, something that people do very little or not at all, and those that do mostly don't buy too many games per year. Movies have the same problem with the price thing, but they don't collapse because movies are entrenched in culture and people watch many movies per year. Soon, the same will happen with games. Vandalvideo

He's working at Junction Point Studios, which was bought by Disney Interactive, and is doing a game called Ninja Gold, done as a movie/game combo with John Woo.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13604/Warren-Spectors-Next-Game-Revealed-Ninja-Gold/

So the 360 version is still the version to have.

9.6 > 9.0. Gears 360 > Gears PC.

Fact. and we can call that a /thread

V_Isle

Except a year has gone by, and the gameplay aged. The same thing happened when Halo 2 went to the PC and happens in all other delayed ports.

Remember the Splinter Cell: Essentials controversy? This was one of the ads for the game:

Gamespy gave the game something like 2 out of 5. That text was taken from a preview.

This is why I don't trust previews anymore.