{"id":66553,"date":"2014-07-02T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=66553"},"modified":"2014-07-02T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T08:52:46","slug":"game-critics-awards-announces-best-games-of-e3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/66553-game-critics-awards-announces-best-games-of-e3","title":{"rendered":"Game Critics Awards announces best games of E3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/66371-game-critics-awards-best-of-e3-nominees-2.html\">last week&#8217;s nominations<\/a>, The 2014 Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 winners have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>47 titles were selected by 29 judges, split into categories, and then voted for by the same judges.<\/p>\n<p>The Division; Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt were not made available for the judges to play, and were thus not considered for an award.<\/p>\n<p>Here are this year&#8217;s winners, by category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of Show &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Evolve<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Original Game &#8211; <strong>No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Console Game &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Evolve<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Handheld\/Mobile Game &#8211; <strong>Super Smash Bros.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best PC Game &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Tom Clancy&#8217;s Rainbow Six: Siege<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Hardware\/Peripheral &#8211; <strong>Oculus Rift<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Action Game &#8211; <strong>Evolve<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Action\/Adventure Game &#8211; <strong>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Role Playing Game &#8211; <strong>Dragon Age: Inquisition<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Fighting Game &#8211; <strong>Super Smash Bros.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Racing Game &#8211; <strong>The Crew<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Sports Game &#8211; <strong>NHL 15<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Strategy Game &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Civilization: Beyond Earth<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Social\/Casual\/Family Game &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Mario Maker<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Online Multiplayer &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Evolve<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Independent Game &#8211;\u00a0<strong>No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Special Commendation for Innovation &#8211;\u00a0<strong>No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NP5Dsuq7mKw?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s judges were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ArsTechnica<\/li>\n<li>Associated Press<\/li>\n<li>Destructoid<\/li>\n<li>Digital Trends<\/li>\n<li>EGM<\/li>\n<li>Electric Playground<\/li>\n<li>Entertainment Weekly<\/li>\n<li>The Escapist<\/li>\n<li>Fortune<\/li>\n<li>Game Informer<\/li>\n<li>GamesRadar<\/li>\n<li>GameSpot<\/li>\n<li>Gannett ContentOne<\/li>\n<li>GiantBomb<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood Reporter<\/li>\n<li>IGN<\/li>\n<li>Joystiq<\/li>\n<li>Kotaku<\/li>\n<li>L.A. Times<\/li>\n<li>Machinima<\/li>\n<li>PC Gamer<\/li>\n<li>Polygon<\/li>\n<li>Spike TV<\/li>\n<li>Sun Media<\/li>\n<li>USA Today<\/li>\n<li>US Gamer<\/li>\n<li>VentureBeat<\/li>\n<li>Wired<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do these games deserve to be at the top? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/66471-steam-breaks-its-concurrent-user-record.html\">Steam breaks its concurrent user record<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/66455-powerslams-and-pokemon-games-you-can-play-this-week.html\">Powerslams and Pokemon \u2013 games you can play this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/66383-why-console-games-cost-more-than-pc-games-in-sa.html\">Why console games cost more than PC games in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These titles won over the judges, but will they win over gamers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":66559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5118,12425,12012,5117,21],"class_list":["post-66553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-best-of-e3","tag-e3-2014","tag-evolve","tag-game-critics-awards","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66553","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66561,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66553\/revisions\/66561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}