E223 ? 2010 Awards

[egparadigm]

Previews

. L.A. Noire (360, PS3)
. Operation Flashpoint: Red River (360, PS3)
. Dirt 3 (360, PC, PS3)
. Dead Space 2 (360, PS3)
. Battlefield Play4Free (PC)
. Need For Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed (360, PC, PS3)
. Darkspore (PC)
. Rift: Planes of Telara (PC)
. Anomaly: Warzone Earth (iPhone, Mac, PC)
. YooStar 2 (360)
. Fight Night Champion (360, PS3)
. The Sims Medieval (Mac, PC)

Reviews

. Gran Turismo 5 - [7]

. Epic Mickey - [7]

. Call of Duty: Black Ops - [7]

. Tron: Evolution - [5]

. Splatterhouse - [5]

. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - [3]

. Dead Nation - [5]

. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - [8]

. Hydroventure - [8]

. Ilomilo - [6]

. Mario vs Donkey Kong: Miniland Mayhem - [7]

Features

. Uncharted 3 - Secrets & Lies (cover).
. Wish you were here? A new era for PC graphics.
. Credit Report - the state of modern arcades.
. An Audience With... Jonathan Blow & Chris Hecker.

Time Extended: Guitar Hero
The Making Of... The X-Files

The EDGE Awards 2010

->Open Spoiler<-

Best Game (mainstream)
. Super Mario Galaxy 2
. Rock Band 3
. Bayonetta

Best Game (indie)
. Minecraft
. Super Meat Boy
. Neptune's Pride

Best Visual Design
. Red Dead Redemption
. Bayonetta
. Limbo

Best Audio Design
. Red Dead Redemption
. Limbo
. Sid Meier's Civilization V

Best Online Experience
. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
. Halo: Reach
. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit

Best Developer
. Platinum Games
. Blizzard
. Harmonix Music Systems

Best Publisher
. Electronic Arts
. SEGA
. PopCap

Best Hardware
. iPhone
. Kinect
. Move

The Alternative EDGE Awards 2010

Most Unrelenting Violence
Kirby's Epic Yarn

Best Bugs
Fallout: New Vegas

Most Effective Tool For Ruining Friendships
Neptune's Pride

Most Aggravating Shopping Experience
Heavy Rain

Mightiest Flanks
Red Dead Redemption

Best Gateway Drug
Toy Story 3

Furriest Fur
Kinectimals

Slightest Return
APB

Wettest Game
Hydrophobia

Most Alternative Ego
Deadly Premonition

Most Transformative Update
Red Dead Redemption

Most People Saying "Fisher" Angrily
Splinter Cell: Conviction

Most Controllers Thrown at the TV
Demon's Souls

Most Poignant Reminder of Reality
Kinect

Most Excitable Commentator
Husky

With thanks to NeoGAF (Haven't got my copy yet.)

[Darwock]

What a lot of pap. Those awards make me wonder if anything actually happened with videogames in 2010.

[abigsmurf]

Best Online experience... The horribly restrictive Battlenet 2.0?

[Adam Stone]

Strange list that - not that i'm complaining - just unusual choices.

Very pleased to see Limbo get a couple of mentions though, that has to be my most pleasantly surprising highlight of the year.

[PeteJ]

Lack of Mass Effect 2 is odd, and the lack of Battlefield in the online category is madness!

Cancelled, etc.

[Golgo]

Poor list, that. So many omissions. If I had a subscription I'd cancel it, etc.

[Neon Ignition]

Not too surprising. EDGE has increasingly become a marketing mag for Halo, Rock Band and Bayonetta so the awards largely revolving around all three isn't a shock.

[NW2013]

Bit of a disparity between Edge and Games TM's scores for Epic Mickey, 5 vs 7.

[fuse]

Platinum as developer of the year makes me happy.

[parkinho]

Platinum as developer of the year makes me happy.

A fully deserved award. Bayonetta and Vanquish are steps ahead of anything else released this year.

[dataDave]

I'm wondering why Starcraft II gives the best online experience. It just seemed like 1v1 match-making to me, hardly anything compared to the 40vs40 you get in WoW or 16vs16 in Halo.

Also, my games were mostly 'get ganked by ****ty cheese tactics', 'gank by using ****ty cheese tactics', or 'scramble around the entire map exhausting all resources for 4hrs'. I never had any decent matches like in all the vids I watched, and I doubt the people at Edge are that good either.

It was insanely addictive though, even moreso than WoW. What is it with Blizzard?

[englishbob]

Starcraft best online? Millions of Koreans would disagree! NFS:HP was the best online, Halo Reach was a bit of an arse-kiss!

[Brad]

I've updated the Edge Subscriber/Unsubscriber app for 2010. A real time-saver at this time of year:

[Tig]

that is ace

[spagmasterswift]

Wasn't Bayonetta a 2009 game tho?...