Table of Contents
Calendar of Events
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Monday
- DEC 13
- Awards Begin Categories Revealed
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Monday
- DEC 20
- Editors' Choice Awards Special Achievements
- Tuesday Dec 21 - Dubious Honors
- Wednesday Dec 22 - Genre Awards
- Thursday Dec 23 - Platform Awards
- Friday Dec 24 - Game of the Year
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Monday
- JAN 10
- Readers' Choice Awards Voting Ends
About the Awards
GameSpot's Best of 2010 awards cover special achievements in the field of advancements for games, dubious honors for less-than-admirable qualities, and full awards for individual genres and every major platform. Nominations and awards are the result of rigorous debate among GameSpot's editors, who select up to five finalists and one winner for almost every category (the Game of the Year category includes up to 10 finalists). To qualify for an editorial award, games must have been reviewed by GameSpot between January 1, 2010, and November 30, 2010.
Award categories are intended to call out those games that truly deserve the attention--therefore, while each award is meaningful, it's considered an honor simply to be nominated.
Special Achievement
Funniest Game
Video games are inherently fun, but they aren't always funny. This award recognizes games that consistently made us laugh out loud the whole way through.
Watch the video below for more!
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2's unusual weapon-combination system and completely random mix of items, vehicles, and apparel--not to mention its open-ended gameplay--set the stage for more outrageous situations and hilarious moments than you can shake a football-duct-taped-to-a-bomb at.
Readers' Choice Voting
- Winner
- Results
Dead Rising 2
- Publisher: Capcom
- Developer: Blue Castle Games
Dead Rising 2 is set several years after the infamous zombie invasion of Willamette. Unfortunately, the zombie virus was not contained at the conclusion of Dead Rising, spreading unchecked throughout the United States and Dead Rising 2 depicts a country where zombie outbreaks continue to strike.
| Title | Vote Result Graph | % of Votes | # of Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley |
6% | 1,825 | |
Costume Quest |
6% | 1,712 | |
Dead Rising 2 |
34% | 9,643 | |
Deadly Premonition |
6% | 1,810 | |
DeathSpank |
19% | 5,494 | |
Bayonetta |
7% | 2,128 | |
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 |
11% | 3,111 | |
The Sims 3: Ambitions |
3% | 813 | |
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 |
5% | 1,469 | |
Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Videogame |
1% | 383 |



