{"id":118725,"date":"2017-06-29T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118725"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:27:15","slug":"the-best-games-of-e3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/118725-the-best-games-of-e3-2017","title":{"rendered":"The best games of E3 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamecriticsawards.com\/winners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Games Critics Awards<\/strong><\/a> winners for Best of E3 2017 have been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>38 media outlets vote in the Game Critics Awards for the best games of the expo across multiple categories.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo\u2019s Super Mario Odyssey and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle dominated the awards, winning in multiple categories.<\/p>\n<p>The winners for each category are below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best of Show: <\/strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Original Game:<\/strong> Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Console Game: <\/strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best VR Game: <\/strong>Lone Echo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best PC Game: <\/strong>Destiny 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Handheld Game: <\/strong>Metroid: Samus Returns<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Hardware\/Peripheral: <\/strong>Xbox One X<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Action Game: <\/strong>Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Action\/Adventure Game: <\/strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Role Playing Game: <\/strong>Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Racing Game: <\/strong>Forza Motorsport 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Fighting Game: <\/strong>Dragon Ball FighterZ<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Sports Game: <\/strong>FIFA 18<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Strategy Game: <\/strong>Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Family Game:<\/strong> Hidden Agenda<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Online Multiplayer: <\/strong>Star Wars Battlefront II<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Independent Game: <\/strong>The Artful Escape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/217478-the-best-video-games-of-e3-2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/217116-nintendo-launches-snes-classic.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nintendo launches SNES Classic<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Games Critics Awards winners for Best of E3 2017 have been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":118079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,11681,4],"tags":[5266,24429,24697],"class_list":["post-118725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-best-games","tag-e3-2017","tag-games-critics-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}