GameSpot Announces Winners of 2nd Annual GameSpot E3 People's Choice Awards; Industry Award Based on Gamers' Online Behavior Du
May 11 2006 - 10:26AM
Business Wire
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
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------------------ Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Square Enix
Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Wii
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------------------ Fable 2 Microsoft Xbox 360
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------------------ Final Fantasy III Square Enix DS
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------------------ Final Fantasy Versus XIII Square Enix PS3
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------------------ Final Fantasy XIII Square Enix PS3
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------------------ Gears of War Microsoft Xbox 360
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------------------ Halo 3 Microsoft Xbox 360
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------------------ Heavenly Sword Sony PS3
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------------------ Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Activision Multiple
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------------------ Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Konami Patriots
PS3 --------------------------------- -----------------
------------------ Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Nintendo Wii
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------------------ Red Steel Ubisoft Wii
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------------------ Sonic the Hedgehog Sega PS3, Xbox 360
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------------------ Spore EA PC ---------------------------------
----------------- ------------------ Super Mario Galaxy (working
Nintendo title) Wii ---------------------------------
----------------- ------------------ Super Paper Mario Nintendo
GameCube --------------------------------- -----------------
------------------ Tekken 6 Namco PS3
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------------------ The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Nintendo Princess
Wii, GameCube --------------------------------- -----------------
------------------ Warhawk Sony PS3
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------------------ World of Warcraft: The Burning Blizzard Crusade
PC --------------------------------- -----------------
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