e're pleased to present to you GameSpot's tenth annual Best and Worst of the Year Awards, in which we recognize the most noteworthy achievements, good and bad, from the past 12 months in gaming. We have over 50 different awards in all, spread across five different award categories, so you'd better get cozy before you dig in. And, of course, you also have the opportunity to sound off in our annual Readers' Choice Awards, as well as share your thoughts in our forums. Thanks for joining us!

As always, the awards will be released one day at a time over the upcoming week, so keep a close eye on the schedule, and check back each day to find out the winners! Winners will be revealed in each category's accompanying video at first, but you'll be able to come back after the awards are over to see the text write-up for the winners, as well as longer versions of all the videos.

Monday, January 23, 5:00 p.m. PST: Readers' Choice winners revealed

About These Awards

These awards are an annual tradition whose format is designed to reflect GameSpot's status as a true multiplatform gaming publication. Our decision-making process in determining the best games in each category, and the categories themselves, was as focused, involved, and intensive as ever. We considered every game released in North America by the third week of December and took into consideration not only our review scores for those games, but how our perceptions of those games might have changed over time, and many other key factors. All of GameSpot's editors involved themselves in the deliberations, and all decisions were made through continued debate, rather than through voting. As we're sure you'll notice, games that were released earlier in the year were not neglected in favor of more-recent releases. Also, in some cases, only specific versions of games were nominated, or multiple versions of games were nominated for different platforms.

Enough explanations--on with the show!