GAME MANIA

2008 Game Of The Year - from media outlets * Video Game Awards Only - The Video Game includes Console & PC Games, but not Handheld games, Mac games, Kids games, Indie games, etc. * Professional Awards Only - The Media include Sites, Magazines, Newspapers, Publications, Broadcastings, but not Blogs have a staff of one. * All-Format GOTY Awards Only - But a single GOTY pick must be a single title, except for a tie. * In release order. * More details are here . Gamekult Reader's Choice GOTY (FR) : Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots G4TV G-phoria 2008 (US) : Halo 3 Golden Joystick (UK) : Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare MTV Europe (DE) : Grand Theft Auto IV Gamesmagazine -online (UK) : Spore Geek.com (US) : LittleBigPlanet Playfire (UK) : Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Swedish Level Magazine (SE) : Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards (UK) : LittleBigPlanet Paste Magazine (US) : Fallout 3 The State News - Lowdown (US

The 60 Biggest Selling Games of the Last 12 Months - Edge Online • Games are ranked according to our estimate of their sales to consumers from launch-date up until Dec 31st 2008. We only count sales in North America and Europe NOT Japan, Asia or anywhere else. • When two games have sold very similar amounts, the one on the fewest platforms ranks highest. If still tied, the one available for the least time ranks highest. •Review score is for the highest-scoring platform. Average scores courtesy of GameRankings . Quotes taken from GameRankings and MetaCritic . • Portable versions of games have been included, even when the name and style of the game differs slightly from the console versions. •Sales do not include mobile phone versions or download-sales or bundles. 61. Major League Baseball 2K8 /Take 2/Multiple Platforms /1 million/March/Reviews: 72% 60. MLB 08: The Show /Sony/PS3;PS2;PSP /1 million/March/Reviews: 86% 59. The Incredible Hulk /Sega/Multiple Platforms /1 million/June/Revie

2008 Game Of The Year - from media outlets * Video Game Awards Only - Video Game includes Console & PC Game, but not Handheld game, Mac game, Kids game, Indie game, etc. * Professional Awards Only - Media include Sites, Magazines, Newspapers, Publications, Broadcastings, but not Blogs have a staff of one. * All-Format GOTY Awards Only - But a single GOTY pick must be a single title, except for a tie. * In release order. 2008 SHOOTER OF THE YEAR G4TV G-phoria 2008 (US) : Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Playfire (US) : Resistance 2: Fall of Man Voodoo Extreme (US) : Left 4 Dead The Daily Vanguard (US) : Call of Duty: World at War Brutal Gamer (US) : Left 4 Dead X-Play (US) : Left 4 Dead GameFocus (CA) : Gears of War 2 Spike TV Video Game Awards (US) : Gears of War 2 The New Zealand Herald (NZ) : Call of Duty: World at War WhatIfGaming (US) : Resistance 2: Fall of Man Stuff (NZ) : Gears of War 2 & Resistance 2: Fall of Man GamePro (US) : Call of Duty: World at War Gamingfront.ne

Rules 1. Video Game Awards Only - The Video Game includes Console games, PC games, Handheld games, and Indie games, but not Mac games, Kids games, Free games, etc. a. A game must be an original title but includes an expansion pack. 2. Professional Awards Only - The Media include Sites, Magazines, Newspapers, Publications, Broadcastings, but not Blogs have a staff of one. a. Journalists that belong to the Media must be professional. b. A web site must have it's own domain name. c. A personal site like the one-man blog is not included. d. A user community site that consists of bulletin boards alone, is not included. e. Exceptions to clause 'd' are as follows; * NeoGAF - a video game industry discussion community. * GameFAQs - a site that helps people either defeat a game, become more skilled at it, or provides information about it. f. A forum poll shall be regarded as GOTY Awards provided the results are officially announced on behalf of the media. But in principle at least

The Top 100 Selling Games of the Last 12 Months - Next Generation * Numbers are based on official records from NPD and information provided to Next-Gen by publishers. Publicly available data and analysis was also taken into account, as well as dead reckoning and sanity checking from the Next-Gen staff when exact counts (such as unified sales data for Europe) were difficult to corroborate, conflicting, or unavailable. * Numbers take into account only titles released and sold between March 1, 2007 and March 1, 2008. Each game only had to be released in one western territory to be included. * Numbers take into account North America and Western Europe only. * Numbers represent retail sales only. *Pack-in titles were not counted. * Older games re-released in the last year were only included if they included significant changes beyond a lower price. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is an example of the former (thanks to its new control scheme). Hitman Trilogy, a collection of three Hitman games

The 100 best selling games in North America last year - Next Generation 1. The stats were compiled using NPD stats as well as various public, analyst and publisher figures and dead reckoning. 2. Reviews were compiled via Metacritic and Gamerankings using the average rating for highest selling platform. 3. Reviews snippets are chosen for representing general view and corresponding with average score. No value is attached to the review chosen. Thanks to those journos and outlets whose snippets we have used. 4. Genres are very broadly defined for analysis purposes. 5. Games or platform versions of games released prior to January 1st 2006 are not included. Expansion packs, remixes and reissues not included. Games released after January 1st 2007 are not included. 6. We have not been able to gain reliable stats on downloaded games. These sales are not included. Games not available at retail are not included. Mobile phone games are not included. 7. Do bear in mind that games released late in