{"id":40361,"date":"2012-06-27T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40361"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:28:44","slug":"game-critics-awards-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40361-game-critics-awards-winners-announced","title":{"rendered":"Game Critics Awards winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Game Critics Awards have announced their winners for the Best of E3 2012, singling out the games that made an impact at this year’s show.<\/p>\n

Judges for the Game Critics Awards are made up of journalists from 1UP, EGM, G4TV, GameInformer, IGN and just about every other big online or print publication you can think of.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s show had a lot of big contenders, in the form of sequels, follow ups and one or two new IP\u2019s, but congratulations must go to Naughty Dog, who have racked up 5 awards for their upcoming post-apocalyptic title, The Last of Us.<\/p>\n

Below is the full list of winners:<\/p>\n

Best of Show<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Last of Us<\/p>\n

Best Original Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Last of Us<\/p>\n

Best Console Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Last of Us<\/p>\n

Best Handheld\/Mobile Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sound Shapes<\/p>\n

Best PC Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/p>\n

Best Hardware\/Peripheral<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wii U<\/p>\n

Best Action Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Halo 4<\/p>\n

Best Action\/Adventure Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Last of Us<\/p>\n

Best Role Playing Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Park: The Stick of Truth<\/p>\n

Best Fighting Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Injustice: Gods Among Us<\/p>\n

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Injustice Gods Among Us screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

Best Racing Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Need for Speed Most Wanted<\/p>\n

Best Sports Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIFA Soccer 13<\/p>\n

Best Strategy Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/p>\n

Best Social\/Casual Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance Central 3<\/p>\n

Best Motion Simulation Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance Central 3<\/p>\n

Best Online Multiplayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Halo 4<\/p>\n

Best Downloadable Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfinished Swan<\/p>\n

Special Commendations for Graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Star Wars 1313<\/p>\n

Watch Dogs<\/p>\n

Special Commendation for Sound<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Last of Us<\/p>\n

Special Commendation for Innovation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watch Dogs<\/p>\n

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Watch Dogs<\/p><\/div>\n

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See which games absorbed the praise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":40364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,5120,5118,3992,5117,5119,5116],"class_list":["post-40361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-best-game-at-e3","tag-best-of-e3","tag-e3-2012","tag-game-critics-awards","tag-game-critics-awards-for-e3","tag-gca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40379,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions\/40379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}