What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that’s what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you’ll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Nominated for…

• Best Downloadable Game
• Best Indie Game

Michael Jackson: The Experience is indeed a good way to dance along to your favourite King of Pop routines, but that’s really about it. While there’s enough fun to be had with the iconic routines to please fearless fans, there’s a disappointing lack of extras to elevate this beyond anything more than a glorified Michael Jackson track pack for Just Dance. It’ll rock with you, just don’t expect anything more.

Nominated for…

• Best Audio
• Innovation Award

Sam Fisher is sent behind enemy lines in the Korean Peninsula to prevent WWIII, by investigating the responsible party that sunk the USS Clarence E Walsh, U.S.’s most advanced cruiser. Through his investigation, Sam learns that the key parties who are planning to use the Masse Kernels to launch WWIII are war comrade Douglas Shetland, Displace International, and Admiral Otomo, the Third Echelon Information Self Defense Force (I-SDF) contact.

The cutting edge hardware of the new Nintendo 3DS™ allows Splinter Cell fans to play in immersive 3D and ability to interact with the game like nothing before.

Nominated for…

• Best Game on the Go

X-Men: Destiny is a video game based on the X-Men comic book series. It was developed by Silicon Knights and published by Activision. The game was released in North America on September 27, 2011 for the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS consoles.[1] The writer of the story line, Mike Carey, is also the writer of the X-Men: Legacy comic book series

Nominated for…

• Best Console Game

Check it out at: http://ninjago.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

Nominated for…

• Best Game on the Go

Tales from Space: About a Blob is a game about an alien creature that grows and grows until it eats the whole world. It was released on the PlayStation®Network (for PS3) in February of 2011.

Nominated for…

• Best Downloadable Game

Play Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ and be the
hero of your own Star Wars™ saga in a story-driven
massively-multiplayer online game from BioWare and LucasArts.
Explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader when war between
the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire divides the galaxy.

Choose to be a Jedi, a Sith, or from a variety of other classic Star Wars roles, and make decisions which define your personal story and determine your path down the light or dark side of the Force. Along the way you will befriend courageous companions who will fight at your side or possibly betray you based on your actions. Together, you will battle enemies in dynamic Star Wars combat and team up with other players to overcome incredible challenges.

Nominated for…

• Game of the Year
• Best Game Design
• Best Visual Arts

Kinect Sports: Season Two, also known as Kinect Sports 2, is a sequel to Kinect Sports co-developed by Rare and BigPark, and published by Microsoft Studios. It was unveiled at E3 2011′s Microsoft Conference for Kinect and released in October 2011. The game adds six new sports and voice control. As with the previous game, it requires the Kinect sensor. Unlike the previous game, this game is rated E for Everyone.

Nominated for…

• Best Technology

In Burn the Rope users have the freedom to set fire without any fire hazard or need for a fire extinguisher. The game involves a mix of strategic planning, thinking ahead, coordination and the ability to stay in deep focus. Users have to feed the fire and burn as much rope as they can in each level to progress. The challenge is that fire only burns upwards, leaving players to tilt and turn their iPhones to keep the flame alive.
The game features 116 devilishly tricky levels with polished graphics and mesmerizing fire effects. Bugs that crawl along the rope spice things up demonstrating different reactions to the flame from level to level. Ants change the color of the flame so that users could burn different colored ropes, and the spider shoots out a web bridge providing access to the parts of the level that were beyond players’ reach before.

Nominated for…

• Best Downloadable Game

Spider-Man: Edge of Time is a video game developed by the Activision-owned developer Beenox, based on the superhero Spider-Man. The story was written by Peter David, and gameplay has a “cause-and-effect” system where one Spider-Man’s actions will affect the other and vice versa. It was released on October 4, 2011 in North America and on October 14, 2011 in Europe. Edge of Time is the second Spider-Man title to be developed by Beenox, following Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions of 2010, and the first released since Activision and Marvel’s decision to make Beenox their lead developer on future Spider-Man games.

Nominated for…

• Best Console Game
• Best Visual Arts