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GameSpot (www.gamespot.com), a leading source for trusted gaming content and community and a property of CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET), today announced the winners of its Second Annual GameSpot E3 2006 People's Choice Awards, honoring the most anticipated games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2006 conference. The awards are the first to recognize the most popular PC and video games based solely on the real-time online behavior of millions of gamers who visited the GameSpot family of sites on May 10, opening day of E3. Big winners of the award this year include Halo 3, Spore, and the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. "With all of the breaking news stories and amazing booths at E3, it's hard to tell what games people are most excited about," said Josh Larson, director of industry products for CNET Networks Entertainment. "With the real-time feedback from GameSpot Trax, the game industry can get an immediate sense of how the newest games are resonating among potential consumers. All winners are likely to become among the most popular games of the 2006 holiday season and beyond." GameSpot Trax is the industry's most advanced tool for tracking and analyzing essential game data. On Wednesday, May 10, from 12:01am to 5:00pm, GameSpot Trax monitored the information requests generated from the surge of tens of millions of page views of gamers who scoured the GameSpot network of Web sites for details on the games highlighted at E3. By analyzing the tens of millions of interactions that users had with GameSpot's content on the games, GameSpot Trax was able to identify the 20 most anticipated games of the show. Following is a list of the winners in alphabetical order: -0- *T Game Name Publisher Platform --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Square Enix Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Wii --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Fable 2 Microsoft Xbox 360 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Final Fantasy III Square Enix DS --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Final Fantasy Versus XIII Square Enix PS3 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Final Fantasy XIII Square Enix PS3 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Gears of War Microsoft Xbox 360 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Halo 3 Microsoft Xbox 360 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Heavenly Sword Sony PS3 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Activision Multiple --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Konami Patriots PS3 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Nintendo Wii --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Red Steel Ubisoft Wii --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Sonic the Hedgehog Sega PS3, Xbox 360 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Spore EA PC --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Super Mario Galaxy (working Nintendo title) Wii --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Super Paper Mario Nintendo GameCube --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Tekken 6 Namco PS3 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Nintendo Princess Wii, GameCube --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Warhawk Sony PS3 --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ World of Warcraft: The Burning Blizzard Crusade PC --------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ *T About GameSpot Celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2006, GameSpot's (www.gamespot.com) expert editorial team provides more than a million daily visitors with comprehensive, engaging, and unbiased game information for console, PC, and portable platforms. 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