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UPDATE: We're extending the deadline to 12:00 P.M. PST, Friday, February 18, 2011. We have some very close races, and a few extra days voting should resolve them! Good luck!
Welcome to the Bitmob Community Awards!
Last year we saw some truly amazing stories -- articles that, we believe, couldn’t have appeared or been seen by so many on any other site on the Internet. Thank you so much for some of the funniest, thought-provoking, intelligent, and considerate articles we have ever had the pleasure to read. Some earned thousands of hits, some were published in GamePro, and all were loved.
But we wouldn't be a video-game site without a battle to the death and an argument or two about who is the best. That’s why we’ve collected our favorite articles from last year, put them in 12 categories, and we're now allowing the community to vote.
How to vote:
How to vote:
- You can vote publicly by posting in the comments.
- You can vote privately by emailing me directly: andrew.hiscock@bitmob.com. All emails are confidential.
Voting rules:
- Please vote only once for each category.
- You may vote for your own article.
- Write-ins are accepted! Don’t think we nominated the best article for a category? Vote for any Bitmob article that adheres to the nomination criteria by providing its title and author.
- Only articles written by community members are eligible.
- Please vote by 12:00 P.M. PST, Friday, February 11, 2011.
Before we announce the nominees, a big thank you to Evan Killham for the idea and the helping with logistics.
And now here are your nominees....
Best non-traditional article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that defies description or provided content in a new way.)
- What is this? -- Explaining Bayonetta to a skeptical girlfriend by Adam Dorsey
- Bayonetta: The interactive fiction by Pete Davison
- Four Red Dead Redemption hunting stories: The ones that didn't get away by Chase Koeneke
Best non-article
(Nomination criteria: Any article with little to no reading required.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article with little to no reading required.)
- Box art: Controllers by Brian Taylor
- Sketching game characters by Cody Winn
- Full motion video by Brian Petro-Roy
Best personal narrative
(Nomination criteria: Any article that relates a connection to games through a personal history.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that relates a connection to games through a personal history.)
- Object lessons by Brendon Mroz
- Gaming on the frontier: The ups and downs of living in Alaska by Louis Garcia
- My unique MLB: The Show review method by Rachel Jagielski
- Cultural victory: A personal history of the Civilization series by Richard Moss
Best retro article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that deals with games released at least two generations ago.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that deals with games released at least two generations ago.)
- Remembering Out of This World: One button to rule them all by David Banahan
- Japan loves old games, not Older Gamers by Daniel Feit
- Celebrating 25 Years of 8-Bit: The Significance of the NES by Jeremy Signor
Best article about a single element
(Nomination criteria: Any article that deals with a singular element -- mechanical, narrative, or otherwise -- in one game, franchise, or genre.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that deals with a singular element -- mechanical, narrative, or otherwise -- in one game, franchise, or genre.)
- The audacity of choice: Making "wrong" decisions in open-world games by Evan Killham
- Resident Evil 4 shows how "dangerous" is more terrifying than "scary" by David King
- Caught in a loop: The sound of falling tetrominoes by Richard Moss
- Unappealing character: God of War's Kratos dilemma by Evan Killham
Best article about games journalism
(Nomination criteria: Any article that discusses video-game journalism or writing about games.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that discusses video-game journalism or writing about games.)
- Defying journalism: A profile of the divisive HipHopGamer by Dennis Scimeca
- Will wikis kill off the FAQ? by Alex Martin
- Why the games industry needs a good documentary by Michael Gray
- Fear not the pen by Brian Shirk
Best humor article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that tried to be funny -- and succeeded.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that tried to be funny -- and succeeded.)
- The final episode of Lost will invariably be better than Lost: Via Domus by Travis McReynolds
- RPG heroes are lonely people by Chris Davidson
- More God of War 3 hate: In defense of Hera by Evan Killham
Best Bigger Picture Article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that gives context to video games in the world at large.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that gives context to video games in the world at large.)
- PETA just don’t understand by Alex Martin
- Finding fulfillment in farming: Real life vs. Farmville by Meghan Ventura
- Understanding video game characters in a heartbeat: Japan's blood type theory and video games by Meghan Ventura
- More Pixar, Less Uwe: How Hollywood can make a "good" video game movie by Suriel Vazquez
- What can motion controls do for disabled gamers? by Isaiah Taylor
Best hardware article
(Nomination criteria: Any article concerning the physical elements of video games.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article concerning the physical elements of video games.)
- The control pad: An extension of our hands by Ben Ingber
- 5 crazy controllers that never should have seen the light of day by Mark T. Whitney
- The not-so-secret history of video game peripherals by Jeff Grubb
Best on-going series
(Nomination criteria: Any article that has three or more installments in 2010.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that has three or more installments in 2010.)
- Forgotten ruins by Reggie Carolipio
- (30) days of RPGs by Jeremy Signor
- Splitscreen by Evan Killham et al.
GamePro article of the year
(Nomination criteria: Any article that was selected for print in GamePro and not nominated for article of the year. All eligible articles are nominated.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that was selected for print in GamePro and not nominated for article of the year. All eligible articles are nominated.)
- Musings of a gamer: Are religion and gaming mortal enemies? by Mike Gringas
- Dudebro II: The birth of a meme and how NeoGAF began its first video game by Andrew Hiscock
- Day-one DLC: The problem with perishable content by Michael Rousseau
- Teaching game rules naturally by Joe Donato
- The saving grace of Bit.Trip Runner by Jon Irwin
- The joy of pressing start by Matthew Polen
- The final frontiers of Mass Effect, BioShock, and Red Dead Redemption by Christian Higley
Bitmob community article of the year
(Nomination criteria: Any article that appeared on Bitmob in 2010.)
(Nomination criteria: Any article that appeared on Bitmob in 2010.)
- Check her stance: Finally a female Pokemon trainer stands on her own two feet by Meghan Ventura
- My four-year-old son plays Grand Theft Auto by Matthew Orona
- What happened to high-concept games? by Daniel Feit
- IPhone games based on current events have untapped potential by Chris Winters
- Game stories: Pulling them apart, putting them back together again by Brian Taylor
Congrats to everyone and good luck!
Please note that Meghan Ventura, Jeff Grubb, and Andrew Hiscock were not staff members at the time they published their nominated articles.
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