This is a late post, but I was curious how the VGA gave an award out for "most anticipated" to a game that hasn't been released yet?  Do we call that category the "Hypie"?

And a typo.  It should be "A game gets an award".

Well, to be fair, anticipation is always something that precedes the product, not something that follows in the wake of its release. It wouldn't make sense to give a most anticipated award to something that has already launched and thus has no anticipation behind it, right?

Exactly why does one give an award in anticipation for what something is?  What exactly are you awarding it for?  I had understood you gave awards to things to reward and celebrate an accomplishment and honor excellence.  How exactly does being anticipated do this?  We awarding a company for how brilliantly they built up hype for a game?

I'm still waiting for Duke Nukem Forever.

On a serious note, those "top, most" videos are just fillers, if you have run of ideas or news and you want to fill a space on your page and get some comments or hits, just do a "top something" never fails.

I guess I see your point, being anticipated isn't exactly an accomplishment worthy of accolade.

Nowadays hype is almost as important to a game's quality as gameplay.

aren't you a bit late.anyways it tells you that which game everybody is buying and you should buy too

So everyone should buy God Of War 3!!!
Free promotion for the folks at Sony Santa Monica Studios xD

Not necessarily. My most anticipated game is the one that Nintendo announces at E3 for release later in the year that they haven't told us about yet.

Why didn't they giove an award to that one, huh?

because it doesnt actually exist?

I just think its a neat way of looking forward to the next year as well as looking back