GamerZitch Game of the Year Awards!!!!!!!!!

Well kids, it's 1/1/11 and that means two things: 1. It's New Years Day and 2. It's GamerZitch's first ever Game of the Year awards. Now let's get this presentation on the road!

Best Action/Adventure

Winner: Red Dead Redemption

Runner Up: God of War III

Best RPG

Winner: Mass Effect 2

Runner Up: Fallout New Vegas

Best Shooter

Winner: Halo Reach

Runner Up: Call of Duty: Black Ops

Best Sports Game

Winner: NBA 2k11

Runner Up: Madden 11

Best Multiplayer

Winner: Halo Reach

Runner Up: Rock Band 3

Best Racer

Winner: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit

Runner Up: Split/Second

Biggest Surprise

Winner: 3D Dot Game Heroes

Runner Up: Deadly Premonition

Best Sound Design

Winner: Alan Wake

Runner Up: Red Dead Redemption

Best Soundtrack

Winner: Rock Band 3

Runner Up: Nier

Best DLC

Winner: Red Dead Redemption Undead Zombie Nightmare

Runner Up: Left 4 Dead: The Passing

Best Downloadable Game

Winner: Super Meat Boy

Runner Up: Limbo

Best Handheld Game

Winner: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Runner Up: Persona 3 Portable

Most Original

Winner: Heavy Rain

Runner Up: Limbo

Best New Character

Winner: John Marston

Runner Up: Alan Wake

Best Art Direction

Winner: Limbo

Runner Up: Epic Mickey

Best Writing

Winner: Heavy Rain

Runner Up: Mass Effect 2

Best Fighter

Winner: Super Street Fighter 4

Runner Up: Tatsunoko vs Capcom Ultimate All Stars

Best RTS

Winner: Starcraft II

Runner Up: Civilization V

Games Most Likely To Steal Your Life

Winner: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Runner Up: Civilization V

Biggest Disappointment

Winner: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Runner Up: Medal of Honor

Game of the Year

Winner: Red Dead Redemption

Runner Up: Mass Effect 2

And because we're so generous we recorded a podcast just for you! Seriously though it's terrible but hey, it's our first podcast.

Gamerzitch Game of the Year Nominees

Well it's that time, 2010 is almost over and 2011 is almost here. Around the Gamerzitch crew this means one thing Deathmatch... wait... I meant the 1st official "Gamerzitch Game of the Year Awards." 2010 was a great year for games with Triple A blockbusters like Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Starcraft II, Halo Reach, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. As well as indie darlings like Super Meat Boy, Limbo, and Deadly Premonition. Well now it's time to give these games their recognition. 21 categories with a total of over 40 games all battling for a chance to be called the best.

Awards for best shooter, best RPG, best racer, best action/adventure, best art direction, best writing, many more, and of course the coveted Game of the Year award. Below is the list of categories along with the nominees for each, the actual awards will be announced on January 1st, 2011, along with the premier episode of the Gamerzitch Podcast.

So take a look at our nominees, let us know what you think of them, and tell us what you think should be winning.

Action/Adventure

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Red Dead Redemption
• Bayonetta
  
• God of War III
• Darksiders

Best RPG

• Fallout New Vegas
• Mass Effect 2
• Dragon Quest IX
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Fable III

Best Shooter

• Halo Reach
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• BioShock 2
• Battlefield Bad Company 2
• Mass Effect 2

Best Sports Game

• NBA 2k11
• Madden 11
• NHL 11
• Fifa 11
• MLB 10 The Show

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo Reach
• Starcraft 11
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
  
• Rock Band 3

Best Racer

• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
  
• Grand Turismo 5
• Blur
• Split/Second
• Modnation Racers

Biggest Surprise

• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
• Toy Story 3
• Transformers: WfC
• 3D Dot Game Heroes
  
• Deadly Premonition

Best Sound Design

• Alan Wake
• Limbo
• Red Dead Redemption
  
• Metro 2033
• Halo Reach

Best Soundtrack

• Red Dead Redemption
  
• Rock Band 3
• Halo Reach
• Mass Effect 2
• Nier

Best DLC

• Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
• Dragon Age Origins: Awakening
  
• Left 4 Dead: The Passing
• Red Dead Redemption: Undead Zombie Nightmare
• Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

Best Downloadable Game

• Super Meat Boy
• Limbo
• Costume Quest
• Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
• Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Best Handheld

• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
• Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver
• Dragon Quest IX
• Persona 3 Portable
• Super Scribblenauts
  

Most Original

• Heavy Rain
• Limbo
• Minecraft
  
• Enslaved
• Deadly Premonition

Best New Character

• John Marston (Red Dead Redemption)
• Francis York Morgan (Deadly Premonition)
• Thane Krios (Mass Effect 2)
• Alan Wake (Alan Wake)
• Scott Shelby (Heavy Rain)

Best Art Direction

• Epic Mickey
• Red Dead Redemption
• God of War 3
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
• Limbo

Best Writing

• Red Dead Redemption
• Alan Wake
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
• Mass Effect 2
  
• Heavy Rain

Best Fighter

• Super Street Fighter 4
• Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

Best RTS

• C&C 4: Tiberian Twilight
  
• Starcraft 2
• Civilization V

Game Most Likely To Steal Your Life

• Civilization V
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo Reach
• Minecraft
• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
  

Biggest Disappointment

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
• Crackdown II
• Medal of Honor
  
• Fable III
• Lost Planet II

Game of the Year

• Mass Effect 2
• Red Dead Redemption
• Epic Mickey
• Halo Reach
• God of War III
• Super Meat Boy
• Starcraft II
• Limbo
• Heavy Rain
  
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Dead Rising 2: Case West Priced and Dated. Woo!

Today Capcom announced the release date and price for the next downloadable adventure in the Dead Rising series. Dead Rising 2: Case West the epilogue for Dead Rising 2 lets players join forces with everyone's favorite zombie killing photo journalist Frank West. Case West will be out on the 27th and will be priced at 800 microsoft points. Case West will be an exclusive to 360 like Case 0 and there is no word on if the game will later be made available for the Playstation 3.

Like most of you I am excited for this but the downside is that you will only be playing as Frank if you are doing coop. But if you are going it alone Chuck will magically have learned to take fancy pictures. Also, according to the picture you can go mad scientist on the zombies which I am certainly open to.

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to Use New Game Engine

The two best bits of news surrounding Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are that it's coming out next year, and that it's being built on a whole new gaming engine. Bethesda confirmed via tweet that the games engine is "brand new... and spectacular!"

Now while the average gamer may not find this news all that interesting, the gamers who follow stuff like this closely know that this means we won't be stuck with the decrepit "Gamebryo" engine, which has been known for being horrendously glitchy, and has been the structure for Fallout 3 and previous Elder Scroll games, as well as a few others such as Epic Mickey. Bethesda's community man Nick Breckon also stated in a tweet that the engine is being built in company.

I for one am overjoyed to hear this news, both Elder Scrolls IV, and Fallout 3 floored me, but the constant glitching more than once took me out of the experience. Look forward to Skyrim hitting store shelves on November 11, 2011 for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

Final Fantasy XIV Team Restructuring, PS3 Version Delayed Indefinitely

Final Fantasy, you love it or you hate it. I love the story driven iterations, some love the MMO's versions, I do not. Still those fans now have something to be upset about. The PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIV which was supposed to be released March of next year is now delayed indefinitely.

What has caused this delay, the answer is because the PC version is horrible. Yoichi Wada Square Enix CEO released a statement to the FFXIV community apologizing for the game not being very good. He went on to say that the team is restructuring, with some new leadership coming in. Producer Hiromichi Tanaka is out, with Naoki Yoshida taking over as lead producer/game director, other positions are also being restaffed with the team working on a new direction for the game. Until this happens FFXIV will continue its free trial period.

So rather than base the PS3 version on a horrible mess of a game Square Enix decided to hold off until something better was made. Thus sparing us from a terrible PS3 game.