The Game of the Year Award Winners Thread

[Onyxmeth]

Left 4 Dead-Destructoid

http://www.destructoid.com/the-winner-of-destructoid-game-of-the-year-2008-114940.phtml

Saint's Row 2-Zero Punctuation

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/486-Awards-for-2008

Grand Theft Auto IV

Giant Bomb

http://www.giantbomb.com/features/best-of-2008/1/?category=1

New York Times

http://www.giantbomb.com/features/best-of-2008/1/?category=1

Play

http://play.tm/article/22743/the-2008-top-ten/2/

Time Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863763,00.html#

Fallout 3

Associated Press

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008525992_apyetop10videogames.html

Crispy Gamer

http://www.crispygamer.com/features/2008-12-23/2008-game-of-the-year-day-3-the-cg-awards-5.aspx

Gamasutra

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21377

UGO

http://gamesblog.ugo.com/index.php/gamesblog/more/ugos_game_of_the_year_awards_2008/

Gamesradar

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/gamesradars-officially-annual-platinum-chalice-awards-2008/a-2008121817178666006/p-6

Fable II

Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/01/joystiqs-top-10-of-2008-fable-2/

PETA
(Note: You may not want to count this. They only award one videogame a year and it's under the category "Most Animal-Friendly Videgame". Frankly it sounds like sarcasm, because between your ability to shoot rabbits and chickens and abusing your dog, I have no idea how this got the award but it did.)

http://www.peta.org/feat/proggy/6th/?c=p6apgb08

Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologyreviews/videogamereviewsandpreviews/3628980/Best-games-of-2008-Top-50-video-games-on-wii-xbox-ps3-psp-pc-and-ds.html?image=9

X-Play

http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/features/35425/XPlay_Best_of_2008_Peter_Molyneuxs_Acceptance_Speech.html