GOTY 2011: Game of the Year Award
- It's time for the real deal, as we're about to announce what GamingUnion.net's Game of the Year is for 2011. I know, I can tell you're all really excited! Narrowing down ...
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GOTY 2011: Best Xbox 360 Game Award
- Our next home console following on from the Nintendo Wii is Microsoft's Xbox 360, which has had a fantastic year by its own standards. Despite having a relatively weak fi...
GOTY 2011: Best New IP Award
- Next up is our award for the Best New Intellectual Protocol of 2011. In other words, it's our award for the best original title of this year. Unfortunately, this year was...
GOTY 2011: Biggest Disappointment Award
- We've had some pretty positive awards, but now it's time to move onto an award which nobody wants to win, well hopefully not at least - Biggest Disappointment. Plenty of ...
GOTY 2011: Best OST Award
- Moving away from the individual awards for Best Publisher and Best Developer, the next award we've got for you guys is the Best Original Soundtrack Award. This year had a...
GOTY 2011: Game of the Year Nominations
- This is it, the one you've been waiting for. We've gone through a number of categories for our Best of 2011 awards, including some new ones like Best Reveal, Indie, and Tr...
GOTY 2011: Best Xbox 360 Game Nominations
- Up next on our list of awards is the Best Xbox 360 title of 2011, and while we're really looking forward to the new Halo trilogy, Alan Wake and Fable: The Journey, this ye...
GOTY 2011: Best New IP Nominations
- Despite there being a ton of great games this year, it's disappointing to say that there weren't actually that many new IPs on the scene. Sure, it's a risky business laun...
GOTY 2011: Biggest Disappointment Nominations
- Game of the Year Awards, ironically, aren't always about the positives. So to that end we've made up a lovely award for "Biggest Disappointment". Just as a disclaimer, th...
GOTY 2011: Best OST Nominees
- There are many factors that contribute to creating an immersive game, from gameplay mechanics to visuals and art direction. However, let's not forget about the music that ...
Top Ten Games of 2011 So Far
- The opening half of 2011 has been a great time to be a gamer. Perhaps not quite as strong as 2010, but one still filled with 'Game of the Year' contenders. Publishers cont...
GBF Episode 14 - Is there such a thing as too much cleavage?
- E3 is almost here and there have been some great games this past week! The new episode of GBF is here and we give the quick rundown of titles that we reviewed in the last ...
Out The Pipeline: Brink, L.A. Noire, The Witcher 2 And Two 3DS Fighters
- I'm sorry, were you expected yet another Summer drought? Not this year! There's quite a few games in store for us this month that ought to keep us at bay well into the bur...
Top Ten: Anticipated Games of 2011
- 2011 is shaping up to be a pretty incredible year in gaming. Some of my favourite franchises over the last few years - Uncharted, Mass Effect and MotorStorm to name a few...
