Biggest News

A lot of news breaks in the games industry every single day. We at GameSpot constantly strive to stay on top of current events in gaming, so it's not often that we're caught off guard by an announcement. Yet sometimes the entire industry and gamers alike are sent reeling by a major news release. With the Biggest News award, we wish to commemorate what we believe to be the biggest gaming news piece of the year, for posterity. First, here are the five finalists:

First Peek at the Sony PSP

One single concept-art shot at a Sony executive conference gave millions of gamers a glimpse of the future of portable platforms.

GameCube drops to $99

While not very sexy in itself, the price drop was indicative of Nintendo's increasingly desperate attempts to remain competitive in the cutthroat console wars.

The Half-Life 2 code heist

Hackers make off with the source code for the most anticipated game of the year, delaying the title to 2004 and spawning a million conspiracy theories.

N-Gage start stumbles

Few product launches in the history of gaming have been greeted with more indifference or derision than the debut of Nokia's hybrid cell phone/game deck.

3DO files for Chapter 11

The Army Men publisher finally succumbs to its financial woes, ending another chapter in founder Trip Hawkins' long, strange trip in the gaming industry.

And the Winner is...