AIAS Finalists Announced

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @05:43AM from the finally-a-real-awards-show dept.

The 2005 finalists for the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards have been announced, Gamespot reports. The event, sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, will announce winners on the evening of January 9th. From the article: "Leading the nominees this year was GameSpot's 2005 PlayStation 2 Game of the Year, God of War. Developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), the game got a whopping 11 nominations, including Overall Game of the Year, Action/Adventure Game of the Year, and Outstanding Innovation in Gaming. The game's number of nominations ties last year's AIAS Game of the Year winner, Half-Life 2."

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On the notably missing games... by Bagels · 2006-01-17 07:15 · Score: 3, Insightful

In the article, the AIAS stated that Majesco's Psychonauts and Capcom's RE4 weren't up for consideration because those two companies didn't join the AIAS (and took a jab at Majesco's financial difficulties, stating that they didn't have the resources to join anyhow). If two of the best games of the year are eliminated simply because the higher-ups didn't pay some extortionary membership fee, I can't see why the awards themselve should be taken seriously. It's clear that money is an all-too-important factor in the AIAS awards deliberations.

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