It’s that time of year again; when the sun sets on another year of gaming, and all those gaming websites hand out their prestigous awards to the best games released during the year.
***SPOILER ALERT***
The following is a list of all websites that I have found that have a GOTY list of some sort. If you do not want to have the results spoiled for you, I suggest that you go and check your favourite gaming websites before you read this list.
Current leader: BioShock (16|13)
Runners-up: Super Mario Galaxy (13|3), Portal/The Orange Box (11|2)
The rest:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (5|1)
Rock Band (3|4)
Halo 3 (2|1)
Mass Effect (2|1)
Desktop Tower Defense (0|1)
Gaming Media
1UP: TBA
ActionTrip: Portal
Ars Technica: Rock Band
Bit-Tech: The Orange Box
Boomtown: None (Multiple)
CheatCC: BioShock
Destructoid: BioShock
Digital Entertainment News: BioShock
Digital Spy: Super Mario Galaxy
DigitalBattle: BioShock
Edge: Super Mario Galaxy
Eurogamer: Portal
Extreme Gamer: Mass Effect
G4/X-Play: BioShock
Gamasutra: Portal
Game Critics Awards: TBA
Game Industry News: Rock Band
Game Informer: BioShock
Game Reactor: Super Mario Galaxy
Game Revolution: BioShock
Game-Spectrum: The Orange Box
GameBump: The Orange Box
GameDaily: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
GamePro: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Gamer 2.0: None (Multiple)
Gamernode: Portal
Gamers Europe: TBA
Gamervision: BioShock
Games Are Fun: Super Mario Galaxy
Games Radar: The Orange Box
GameShark: BioShock
Gamespot: Super Mario Galaxy
GameSpy: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
GameTap: Rock Band
GameZone: BioShock
Gaming Target: BioShock
IGN: Super Mario Galaxy
Jolt: BioShock
Joystiq: Portal
Kikizo: Super Mario Galaxy
Kombo: Super Mario Galaxy
Kotaku: Super Mario Galaxy
Mygamer.com: The Orange Box
MyGEN: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
PALGN: Super Mario Galaxy
Primotech: BioShock
PS Fanboy: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Screen Play: Super Mario Galaxy
Shacknews: Portal
SPIKE VGA’s: BioShock
TeamXbox: Mass Effect
The Onion: Portal
Thunderbolt: Halo 3
TVG: Super Mario Galaxy
UGO: BioShock
VideoGamer.com: Halo 3
WorthPlaying: BioShock
Yahoo! Games: Super Mario Galaxy
Non-gaming Media
Amazon: Super Mario Galaxy
AskMen: Rock Band
Associated Press: BioShock
Boston Herald: BioShock
Chicago Sun-Times: BioShock
Cinema Blend: Super Mario Galaxy
Entertainment Weekly: BioShock
Games Magazine: BioShock
Guardian Unlimited: The Orange Box
Herald-Dispatch: Rock Band
Journal Star: BioShock
Los Angeles Times: BioShock
Maxim: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
MTV: Desktop Tower Defense
New York Times: Mass Effect
Newsday: Rock Band
Paste Magazine: BioShock
Playboy: BioShock
Salt Lake Tribune: BioShock
San Francisco Chronicle: BioShock
Sky News: Super Mario Galaxy
Telegraph: BioShock
The Mercury News: BioShock
TIME: Halo 3
Village Voice: Portal
Wired: Rock Band
Edit: Looks like I’ve been beaten by the people at NeoGAF. Credits to Cheesemeister, list updated with missed sites.
