2006 Nominee Fast Facts
This year the Game Critics Awards committee nominated 54 products from 20 publishers.
Games
With Multiple Nominations
Five Nominations:
Gears of War
Four Nominations:
Assassin's Creed
Bioshock
Spore
Three Nominations:
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
LocoRoco
Two Nominations:
Crysis
Elite Beat Agents
Hellgate: London
Mass Effect
Nintendo Wii
Super Mario Galaxy
Supreme Commander
Wii Sports
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
Publisher Breakdown
(Plus Trend Analysis Over Past 3 Years)
14 Nominations:
Nintendo
(+2 from 2005, +3 from 2004, +8 from 2003)
11 Nominations:
Electronic Arts
(-5 from 2005, Same as 2004, +5 from 2003)
10 Nominations:
Sony Computer Entertainment
(+2 from 2005 and 2004, +4 from 2003)
9 Nominations:
Microsoft
(+1 from 2005, Sane from 2004, -4 from 2003)
6 Nominations:
Take Two Interactive
(+3 from 2005, +6 from 2004 and 2003)
5 Nominations:
THQ
(+4 from 2005, +2 from 2004, +1 from 2003)
4 Nominations:
Activision
(Same as 2005, -2 from 2004, -3 from 2003)
Ubisoft
(+3 from 2005, Same as 2004, +2 from 2003)
3 Nominations:
Namco Bandai
(Same as 2005)
2 Nominations:
Atari
(+1 from 2005)
Sega
(Same as 2005)
1 Nomination:
Buena Vista Games (new)
Capcom
(-2 from 2005, -2 from 2004, -1 from 2003)
Konami (+1 from 2005)
Logitech (new)
Midway (-1 from 2005, Same as 2004, +1 from 2003)
Square Enix (-1 from 2005)
Webzen (new)
Red Octane (new)
Nominee Breakdown by Platform
(Multiplatform games are counted in all appropriate platform tallies.
Information based on announced platforms for each game as of 5/21/06. Tally
excludes nominations in hardware category.)
PC: 29 (Same as 2005, -1 from 2004, +4 from 2003)
Xbox 360: 21 (+9 from 2005, N/A in 2004 or 2003)
PS3: 10 (new)
PSP: 9 (-2 from 2005, +7 from 2004, N/A in 2003)
Wii: 9 (new)
PS2: 7 (-19 from 2005, -19 from 2004, -15 from 2003)
DS: 3 (-9 from 2005, +1 from 2004, N/A in 2003)
Xbox: 2 (-12 from 2005, -24 from 2004, -18 from 2003)
GC: 1 (-11 from 2005, -17 from 2004, -13 from 2003)
Arcade: 1 (new)