The 13th Annual PC Gamer Awards Reveals The Best Of The Best For 2006
February 2, 2007
Game of the Year and Best of 10 Genres To Be Featured In March Issue
South San Francisco, CA (February 2, 2007) – The year 2006 may go down in history as the year when Britney and K-Fed broke up, Borat won a Golden Globe, and World of Warcraft was featured on South Park. But while the world tuned-in to see Borat pick up his golden statue, gamers everywhere anxiously awaited to read Editor-in-Chief, Greg Vederman, and his talented team of editors preach the gospel on 2006’s most highly acclaimed games in the March issue of PC Gamer Magazine, on stands now.
PC Gamer drew up a list of approximately seventy-five of the highest-rated games released in 2006, sorted by genre. The expert panel, made up of all the PC Gamer editors, then dissected, discussed, and voted on their personal favorites while consuming many, many slices of pizza and downing a lot of diet Coke.
It was their devotion to Gaming Goodness™ (as well as their impressive gastric fortitude) that saw them through to the end!
The 11 winners of the 13th Annual PC Gamer Awards are:
• Game of the Year—Company of Heroes by THQ
• Best Action Game and Best Multiplayer Game—Prey by 2K Games
• Best Roleplaying Game—The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion by 2K Games
• Best Turn-based Strategies—Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators by Cinemaware Marquee
• Best Adventure Game—Desperate Housewives by Buena Vista Games
• Best Racing Game—GTR 2: FIA GT Racing by Viva Media
• Best Expansion Pack: F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point by Vivendi
• Best Simulation Game—Microsoft: Flight Simulator X by Microsoft
• Best MMO and Best Value—Guild Wars: Nightfall by NCsoft
• Best Puzzle Game—Safe-Cracker by The Adventure Company
• Best Indie Game—Defcon by Valve Corporation and Introversion Software
“As the world’s best-selling PC games magazine for well over a decade and counting, PC Gamer has a long history of putting out fun and informative awards issues; they’re always popular with our readers” says Greg Vederman. “Whether people agree or disagree with the choices we’ve made, the list of winners never fails to spawn discussions and debates among hard-core gamers and their buddies. I absolutely love the passion and excitement that our awards stories help stir up in gamers each year at this time.”
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