{"id":71118,"date":"2014-12-29T23:49:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71118"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:50:45","slug":"mygaming-awards-2014-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71118-mygaming-awards-2014-winners","title":{"rendered":"MyGaming Awards 2014 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the end of 2014 nearly here, it is a fitting time to announce the winners of the MyGaming Awards for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s awards\u00a0saw just under 500 gamers cast their vote for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game of the year<\/li>\n<li>Console of the year<\/li>\n<li>Best South African game retailer of the year<\/li>\n<li>Best digital game retailer of the year<\/li>\n<li>Best gaming broadband provider of the year<\/li>\n<li>Best gaming hardware manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without further ado, here are the winners and runners up.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Game of the Year<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Dragon Age: Inquisition &#8211; 12.66%<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto 5 (PS4, Xbox One) &#8211; 10.70%<\/li>\n<li>Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor &#8211; 8.30%<\/li>\n<li>Far Cry 4 &#8211; 7.86%<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare &#8211; 5.02%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Retailers<\/h3>\n<p>A bit of general interest consumer data first.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you prefer buying your gaming gear?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online &#8211; 69%<\/li>\n<li>Brick-and-mortar stores &#8211; 24.67%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The remainder declined to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Physical copies of games, or digital downloads?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physical copies &#8211; 47.38%<\/li>\n<li>Digital copies &#8211; 45.85%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The remainder declined to answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top SA Game Retailer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>BT Games &#8211; 31.22%<\/li>\n<li>Takealot &#8211; 23.80%<\/li>\n<li>Kalahari &#8211; 20.31%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Top Digital Game Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Steam &#8211; 60.04%<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Network &#8211; 15.72%<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Live &#8211; 6.77%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_28951\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28951\" class=\"wp-image-28951\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Steam logo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Steam-logo-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Gaming Platforms<\/h3>\n<p>Reader insight: Your primary gaming platform?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PC &#8211; 62.88%<\/li>\n<li>PS4 &#8211; 16.59%<\/li>\n<li>PS3 &#8211; 5.68%<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One &#8211; 4.80%<\/li>\n<li>Xbox 360 &#8211; 4.37%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gaming Console of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>PS4 &#8211; 53.93%<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One 12.88%<\/li>\n<li>PS3 &#8211; 5.02%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_70856\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70856\" class=\"wp-image-70856 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1-600x334.jpg\" alt=\"PlayStation 4 Limited Edition\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PlayStation 4 Limited Edition<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Broadband Connections<\/h3>\n<p>Reader insight: Which type of broadband connection do you have?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed line (DSL, fibre) &#8211; 77.51%<\/li>\n<li>Mobile &#8211; 8.52%<\/li>\n<li>Fixed wireless &#8211; 5.90%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Broadband Service Provider<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Afrihost &#8211; 24.67%<\/li>\n<li>Mweb &#8211; 20.52%<\/li>\n<li>Web Africa &#8211; 12.66%<\/li>\n<li>Telkom &#8211; 12.45%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Hardware<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Best Gaming Hardware Maker<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nvidia &#8211; 16.59%<\/li>\n<li>Sony &#8211; 13.97%<\/li>\n<li>Asus &#8211; 11.35%<\/li>\n<li>Gigabyte &#8211; 9.83%<\/li>\n<li>MSI &#8211; 7.64%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s all folks. Let us know what you think of the winners, in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the winners are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":70940,"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":[20],"tags":[21,13148],"class_list":["post-71118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-headline","tag-mygaming-awards-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71118","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=71118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}