The PlayStation Network Store had rather slow and somewhat patchy beginnings. Over the past couple of years though, it has really picked up in terms of pace, consistency and quality. Now the problem when browsing the Store isn’t finding something worth spending your money on, it’s limiting what you spend and ensuring you get your hands on the best games available.
This is where the PlayStation Network Gamer’s Choice Awards step in. Essentially it’s a scheme for users to rate and vote on their favourite products from the PSN Store. Voting starts with 20 nominees on the 22nd of February and will be concluded on the 1st March. Users will vote by downloading a free XMB theme which corresponds to the game they want to vote for.
[boxout]The nominated games will be selected from the top rated games across the four categories: Best PS3 Downloadable Game, Best PSP Downloadable Game, Best PS3/PSP Mini and Best PSN Exclusive Game. The winners of each category will all be put on sale as part of their victory celebrations in the upcoming PSN Spring Fever Sale.Here is the full list of nominees, selected according to their user ratings:
- Best PS3 Downloadable Game: Castle Crashers, Costume Quest™, Death Spank, PAC-MAN® Championship Edition DX, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game
- Best PSP Downloadable Game: God of War®: Ghost of Sparta, Lunar Silver Star Harmony, Phantasy Star™ Portable 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable, Valkyria Chronicles II
- Best PS3/PSP MINI: A Space Shooter for Two Bucks, Age of Zombies™, Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, Vector TD, Young Thor
- Best PlayStation Network Exclusive Game: Dead Nation, Hustle Kings, Joe Danger, Sam & Max Ep. 1, Soldner-X2
So what will you be casting your vote for?
4lf13
I’m going for Pac-Man and Age of Zombies, but I’ve only played one game in each of the other two categories, so I couldn’t really judge them.
nofi
* Best PS3 Downloadable Game: none, daft selection
* Best PSP Downloadable Game: God of War: Ghost of Sparta
* Best PS3/PSP MINI: Vector TD
* Best PlayStation Network Exclusive Game: Joe Danger
Voganlight
Pacman is fantastic!
nofi
Is it? Not tried it.
bigdon23
the store seems to lose things! like if you buy the unlock key you gotta spend time acctually searching for the trial, rather than them being together (in some cases anyway)
nofi
By the way, this might be US only, chaps.
Dange
Best PSN exclusive Joe Danger for me
Mundham
Pac-Man, Shin Megami, Vector, Joe Danger
Ben
Not a bad line up but it could have been stronger and certainly doesn’t represent the best of the PSN in my opinion.
R4U Eldave0
Best PS3 Downloadable Game: Death Spank
Best PSP Downloadable Game: God of War®: Ghost of Sparta
Best PS3/PSP MINI: Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess
Best PlayStation Network Exclusive Game: Joe Danger