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UPDATE: We're extending the deadline to 12:00 P.M. PST, Friday, February 18, 2011. We have some very close races, and a few extra days voting should resolve them! Good luck!

Welcome to the Bitmob Community Awards!

Last year we saw some truly amazing stories — articles that, we believe, couldn’t have appeared or been seen by so many on any other site on the Internet. Thank you so much for some of the funniest, thought-provoking, intelligent, and considerate articles we have ever had the pleasure to read. Some earned thousands of hits, some were published in GamePro, and all were loved.

But we wouldn't be a video-game site without a battle to the death and an argument or two about who is the best. That’s why we’ve collected our favorite articles from last year, put them in 12 categories, and we're now allowing the community to vote.

How to vote:

  • You can vote publicly by posting in the comments.
  • You can vote privately by emailing me directly: andrew.hiscock@bitmob.com. All emails are confidential.
Voting rules:
  • Please vote only once for each category.
  • You may vote for your own article.
  • Write-ins are accepted! Don’t think we nominated the best article for a category? Vote for any Bitmob article that adheres to the nomination criteria by providing its title and author.
  • Only articles written by community members are eligible.
  • Please vote by 12:00 P.M. PST, Friday, February 11, 2011.
Before we announce the nominees, a big thank you to Evan Killham for the idea and the helping with logistics.
 
And now here are your nominees….
 

Best non-traditional article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that defies description or provided content in a new way.)
Best non-article
(Nomination criteria: Any article with little to no reading required.)
Best personal narrative
(Nomination criteria: Any article that relates a connection to games through a personal history.)
Best retro article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that deals with games released at least two generations ago.)
Best article about a single element
(Nomination criteria: Any article that deals with a singular element — mechanical, narrative, or otherwise — in one game, franchise, or genre.)
Best article about games journalism
(Nomination criteria: Any article that discusses video-game journalism or writing about games.)
Best humor article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that tried to be funny — and succeeded.)
Best Bigger Picture Article
(Nomination criteria: Any article that gives context to video games in the world at large.)
Best hardware article
(Nomination criteria: Any article concerning the physical elements of video games.)
Best on-going series
(Nomination criteria: Any article that has three or more installments in 2010.)
  • Forgotten ruins by Reggie Carolipio
  • (30) days of RPGs by Jeremy Signor
  • Splitscreen by Evan Killham et al.
GamePro article of the year
(Nomination criteria: Any article that was selected for print in GamePro and not nominated for article of the year. All eligible articles are nominated.)
Bitmob community article of the year
(Nomination criteria: Any article that appeared on Bitmob in 2010.)
Congrats to everyone and good luck!
 
Please note that Meghan Ventura, Jeff Grubb, and Andrew Hiscock were not staff members at the time they published their nominated articles.