SuperTux 0.4.0 Milestone 2

Over ten years after the last stable release of SuperTux (0.1.3 released July 2005) the SuperTux team have announced the release of the first stable version in the Milestone 2 series.

Compared to 0.1.3, this release features:

• a nearly completely rewritten game engine based on OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL2, ...
  
• support for translations
  
• in-game manager for downloadable add-ons and translations
  
• Bonus Island III, a for now unfinished Forest Island and the development levels in Incubator Island
  
• a final boss in Icy Island
  
• new and improved soundtracks and sound effects
  
• new badguys, bonuses and power-ups (air-, earth- and ice-flower)
  
• a halloween tilemap
  
• new graphic effects (glowing objects, particles, ...)
  
• levels and worldmaps are scriptable using squirrel
  
• much more game objects: trampolines, switches, portable stones, wind, moving platforms, ... - most of them have scripting APIs
  
• improved statistics
  
• many invisible changes, like unit tests, efficiency improvements and more bugfixes
  
• much more...

And of course we updated the official levels to make use of all the new features.

SuperTux 0.4.0 Overworld

It has been a long road for the project, and a lot has changed as the engine seems to have been largely rewritten to make it suitable for more advanced graphics and scripting. Whilst the existing content has been updated, it would seem that the one area in which the project is short is new tilesets and levels, with only a partially complete 2nd forest overworld of the (originally planned) 7 desired worlds.

That's where the community comes in though. With a stable game to work with, hopefully players and artists can combine to extend the game and make it enjoyable for generations to come.

My own 15 year old son remembers SuperTux 0.1.3 fondly as, he says, the best game he played as a young child.

3 Super Monkey Ball Alternatives - Open Sphere Rolling Games

Marbles have fascinated the population of the blue marble for centuries. Today, we take a look at three digital variants that are open source and playable cross-platform.

Veraball

The newest addition to the group of open source ball-rolling games is minimal and was made using the Godot engine.

Rock and jazz music accompanies your through the only two levels so far. None of them are super hard, making Veraball the most beginner-friendly game of the bunch.

Veraball gameplay

Windows (both portable and installer) and Linux releases are available but since Godot Engine runs on Mac OS X, you can play it on that platform as well using the source.

irrlamb

A magical engine powers the blue sphere from the inside, allowing it to roll and jump without reasonable explanation. Its goal is to touch other glass balls filled with yellow light by balancing towards them.

You steer the blue sphere. But to what end? Deliver the coup de grâce to failed experiments? Free trapped spirits? Harvest sleeping souls to grow in power? Is it a grim prognosis about the effects of future commercialized space travel and interplanetary colonization?

Welcome to irrlamb. The atmosphere is mostly dark and dungeon-like, sometimes abstract, always at least a bit magical. The two skater parks feel clinically sanitized (no graffiti).

irrlamb 0.2.1 gameplay

There are around 20 levels starting from beginner-friendly to absolutely insane.

There have been two releases this year (0.2 and 0.2.1). Most of the changes were usability improvements and bugfixes, although some levels have been added as well.

irrlamb 0.2.1 is available for Linux and Windows. Windows users have to manually install OpenAL.

For creating own levels, there is an export script available for Blender.

Neverball

Neverball has been around for a while. There are easy levels, there are hard levels, there are levels that were apparently made to challenge the game's developers.

Many levels take place in space, on grass squares floating under the sky, above the sea or above a city at night. Of our three games, this one is least suitable for those with acrophobia.

Neverball 1.6 Gameplay

There is a lot of content (326 maps minus Neverputt levels) and only a small part of it is accessibly due to my lack of balancing skills. So I present to you the most and least favorite aspects of Neverball, as seen by a player with newbie skills:

Best: 1. The oh so many levels! 2. Different ball models available, some have character (by containing characters), making it easier to have some kind of emotional connection to the game. No animated cute animals though unfortunately.

Worst: 1. The old looking non-baked textures of the basic levels 2. The camera (does not allow you to zoom, moves in disturbing ways) and consequently the controls.

Conclusion

"If only projects X, Y and Z could join forces instead of trying to re-invent the wheel!" - what an annoying thing to say, don't you think? I hope you got the chance to play irrlamb, Neverball and Veraball - and if not I hope this review brought you closer to them - so that you can appreciate the different feels to the gameplay and scenery.

All I really want now are video tutorials for creating new levels...

Are there any open source games with similar mechanics that I missed? Are there proprietary games that developers should consider taking inspiration from other than Super Monkey Ball? Please let us know in the comments!

Warsow 2.0 is now almost fully FOSS!

Great news for the FOSS enthusiasts: after many years of constant nagging the latest release of the great parcour/arena FPS Warsow has now most of it's artistic content under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license (with a few remaining but clearly marked ones under CC-by-ND).

Also updated particle effects in Warsow 2.0

You can find more screen-shots in the above link and the full changelog here.

Rendering speed was also increased (claimed to be 30-50% faster) and a movement tutorial is now included.

So far I always recommended Xonotic over Warsow as the coolest (=most competitive; Red Eclipse is also cool, but much more casual) open-source arena FPS, but I think I might reconsider this now...

Happy fragging :p

Top 3 Open Source Pinball Games

The first flipper pinball machine was released 68 years and 1 month ago and yet there is only a handful of open source, cross-platform pinball video games available! Oh well, let's take them for a spin, shall we?

UPDATE Dec 1st, 2015: 1. Added Libre Pinball, see Honorable Mentions below. 2. Added conclusion section.

UPDATE Jul 17th, 2016: Updated Emilia Pinball links

Nexus Pinball

Nova Pinball Gameplay

Started only a month ago, Nova Pinball's simple sole 2D table is a lot of fun and development has made good progress.

Emilia Pinball

Emilia Pinball Gameplay on Five Tables

The ancient 3D Emilia Pinball project has a recent fork on GitHub that adds more tables (the last official release had only 2, the new one has 5). The code is the ancient but consistent original SourceForge project and some new tables are flowing around patches/mailing list posts https://sf.net/p/pinball/

The game has 4 perspectives (F5-F8)

The models are very low-poly, which is fine and fast but the textures are sinfully low-resolution. However editing textures appears to be simple in existing tables, simply by overwriting them with higher-resolution files, as demonstrated with the angry gnu head in the screenshot above.

Creating new tables requires an editor, which I unfortunately was not able to compile yet (possibly due to lack of old Qt libraries).

Emilia Pinball Zombie Table Gameplay

There is a zombie/horror/Halloween table, which unfortunately contains non-free content.

Linball

Linball Gameplay

The 2D Linball table is crazy fast but suffers from some sounds ripped from proprietary games (maybe there's more non-free content).

Honorable mentions

Libre Pinball Gameplay

Libre Pinball (thread) is very atmospheric but has no missions and only very few table elements right now. It was made using the Godot Engine.

Sadly, Visual Pinball only runs on Windows (wine page).

Vector Pinball for Android unfortunately has no instructions for desktop/Linux compilation.

Devil's Pinball Buggy Gameplay

Devil's Pinball is a Blender-made pinball table. It's quite buggy when played in recent Blender and there is no license information.

Conclusion

I find the open pinball games on Linux more entertaining than I expected them to be. The major downside is decoration and context: while the themes of some tables are intriguing, they unfortunately exist in a widescreen world without a proper background that adds to the experience.

And of course some accessible (video) documentation on how to create new tables would be a huge plus.

Got theme ideas for open source pinball tables? Write them in the comments!

Naev, Valyria Tear, Wyrmsun, ReTux

Wymrsun 1.6.0 was recently released (announcement on our forums and on Steam). Wyrmsun is inspired by the original Warcraft games and many reviewers on Steam compare it to Warcraft II. The project continues a steady development pace which is always a good sign so I encourage RTS fans to try it out.

Wyrmsum

Naev 0.6.1 has been released. After a long period without releases until release 0.6.0 appeared in March, this follow up release indicates a return to regular progress for the project. Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game.

I couldn't find a more recent video but here's a bit of a development log of some features for the 0.6.0 release.

Speaking of resurgent projects, Valyria Tear has some news.

The most noticeable change is that I killed a few days ago a very nasty bug that was there from the beginning, making the lua threads never freed from memory. This means the game won't end up anymore swallowing gigs of memory for nothing and crash due to some memory overflow.

Well that does sound like a bit of a killjoy, so good to see it fixed. Other changes are in the blog post.

Onto more things slightly more dubiously open source in nature...

ReTux 0.2 has been released. ReTux is a new Super Tux inspired game. It is a completely rewritten (in Python) codebase although uses many of the assets from the original Super Tux so naturally people will mistake the two despite the significant differences. I already covered the IndieGoGo campaign in a previous article.

ReTux

I'm not really on board with the way the developer Onpon4 is now soliciting $20 for access to the code. I think he's both hurting himself by limiting exposure of the game (you need a password to access the downloads) as well as asking for a fairly significant sum in an age where AAA games are of a similar price a year after release (and regularly on offer, as any Humble Bundle or Steam user will know).

I would say he should just get it on Steam, sell it there, and be open source outside of that. Perhaps have additional levels in the Steam version but accept that charging for the source code is as pointless as it is ineffective.

Anticube 2 - a game within a game

So, as I sometimes peruse various forums, the occasional gem pops up. This is one of the best hidden gems in Open Source gaming.

Anticube 2 is a map for Tesseract / Cube 2 that is inspired by the game Antichamber and NaissanceE. If you are unfamiliar with those, that means it is an abstract FPS puzzle game where things are not quite what they seem. Or, as the creator Lord Kv probably better explains:

Anticube 2 is a puzzle map for Tesseract. You'll find yourself in an interactive, dynamic, non-euclidean world. Supported by 5000+ lines of Cubescript and GLSL code, this map will do things no other Cube 2 / Tesseract map has ever done before.

Here is the trailer:

There is also a gallery of screenshots for you to check out. I won't include them here because, to be honest, the screenshots won't mean much for this kind of game.

I'm calling it a game, even though it is just a map for a game. You can tell it is worth checking out because of the reactions it elicits from the Tesseract developers (warning: NSFW language). Here's what developer ImNotQ009 had to say about it:

Whoa, I would NEVER have though I'd see anything like this on BARE Tesseract.
This is one hell of an astonishing piece of work, the music is great, the whole atmosphere and the aesthetics are really good as well. With the exception of a little bit lousy looking (compared to everything else) terrain on the very last part but nevertheless I genuinely couldn't stop "wow-ing" through out the whole thing.

Anyway, check it out, let us know how you get on. This definitely deserves more attention than it has gotten up until now - but then again how does this kind of thing get more eyes on it when it is just a game within a game and one which is currently suffering from a severe lack of a player base? Hopefully we can change that starting here. :)

Games with G (Gorynlich & Gigalomania)

Great news for people who like GGGGames ;)

The author of the new action roguelike dungeon crawler kind of darwen mayham game Gorynlich was so kind to inform us his game. It comes with this funny trailer (and some great programmer's art :p ):



The code is licensed under the LGPL, while the assets are only freeware right now. But the author seems to be open to look into replacing the assets with Creative Commons licensed ones if someone is interested in doing so.
Gorynlich is done by the same author as the ASCII game Goblin Hack by the way.

Another nice game starting with G, is the awesome remake of the oldie Megalomania, appropriately called Gigalomania!

The author is still looking for improved art asset contributions, but the game itself is already quite playable (even on mobile devices and a bunch of other rare systems!). Also check out the other two cool games by the same developer: Erebus RPG and Conquests (a Civ like game).

2015 GAME OF THE YEAR

2015 Game of the Year - from media outlets

* Video Game Awards Only - The Video Game includes Console games,
PC games, Handheld games, and Indie games, but not Mac games, Kids games,
Free games, etc.

* Professional Awards Only - The Media include Sites, Magazines, Newspapers, Publications, Broadcastings, but not Blogs have a staff of one.

* All-Format GOTY Awards Only - But a single GOTY pick must be a single title, except for a tie.

* In release order.

* More details are here.



Panorama Magazine (IT) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Golden Joystick Awards (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Golden Joystick Awards Critics Choice (UK) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

los Premios ADSLZone (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Trusted Reviews (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

BuzzFeed (ES) : Fallout 4

Hobby Consolas (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Premios Xataka (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TIME (US) : Prune

The Skinny Magazine (UK) : Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Game-Debate Global Game Awards (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

EE Pocket-lint Gadget Awards (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Heavy.com (US) : Fallout 4

TecMundo Games NZN Readers' Choice (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Fun & Serious Game Festival (ES) :  The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamefa.Com (IR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

WOW247 (UK) : Bloodborne

Stuff Gadget Awards (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Complex Magazine (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Load The Game (US) : Fallout 4

The Game Awards (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VICE UK (UK) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Paste Magazine (US) : Undertale

Soundvenue (DK) : Fallout 4

WhatCulture (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Entermix Magazine industry insiders' Choice (JP) : Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth

Slant Magazine (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CG Spectrum (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Auburn Citizen (US) : Bloodborne

City A.M. (UK) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

VidaExtra (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CraveOnline (US) : Fallout 4

Berlingske (DK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Vulture (US) : Life Is Strange

Akihabara Blues (ES) : Bloodborne

Akihabara Blues Readers' Choice (ES) : Bloodborne

GamesMaster Magazine (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamesMaster Magazine Readers' Choice (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

UOL Jogos (BR) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Tech Insider (US) : Fallout 4

Entertainment Weekly (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Sun Times National (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Los Angeles Times (US) : Cibele

SA Gamer (ZA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Geekbecois (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TechTudo (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

HLN.be / De Morgen (BE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

HunGamer (HU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Empire Magazine (UK) : Bloodborne

Moviepilot (US) : Fallout 4

Reno Gazette-Journal - Technobubble (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

NAT-Games (DE) : Fallout 4

The New Yorker Magazine (US) : Sunless Sea

Areajugones Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Lazygamer (ZA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VidaExtra Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jeuxvideo.com (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Tech Awards (NL) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Yahoo Tech / Yahoo Games (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PopOptiq (CA, formerly known as Sound on Sight) : Bloodborne

TechSmart (ZA) : Rise of the Tomb Raider

EGMR (ZA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IBTimes UK (UK) : Life Is Strange

The Telegraph (UK) : Bloodborne

Zonared (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Actualité Houssenia Writing (MG) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Colorado Springs Gazette (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Red Bull Readers' Choice (AT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Yahoo Tech Readers' Choice (US) : Fallout 4

MTV Latin America (US) : Batman: Arkham Knight

adressa.no (NO) : Bloodborne

the Guardian (UK) : Bloodborne

Kotaku Australia Readers' Choice (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Press Play TV (US) : Fallout 4

TechCentral (ZA) : Rise of the Tomb Raider

Amazon Readers' Choice (UK) : Fallout 4

Meristation (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Meristation Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

MWEB GameZone Readers' Choice (ZA) : Fallout 4

Gameblog (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gameblog Readers' Choice (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Mashable (US) : Until Dawn

BGR (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Zoomin.TV (NL) : Super Mario Maker

The Koalition (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamekult Readers' Choice (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The A.V. Club Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VentureBeat (US) : Super Mario Maker

IMGMR (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Cheat Code Central (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Reviews on the Run - Rocket & Raygun Awards (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Cultured Vultures (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GAMES.CH (CH) : Fallout 4

NRK Filmpolitiet (NO) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Hospodářské noviny (CZ) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Daily Mirror (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The AU Review - The Iris (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Digitally Downloaded (AU) : Life Is Strange

Gameplane (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

XGN Readers' Choice (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

XGN Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GameSpot (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

NDTV (IN) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Quarter to Three (US) : Massive Chalice

WatchMojo (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Bitbag (AU) : Fallout 4

Games.it Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Blick (CH) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TONIGHT (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Millenium (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamesVillage (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

XGN (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Nerd Reactor (US) : Fallout 4

Details Magazine (US) : Life Is Strange

Jagat Play (MY) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Junkee (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Games Cabin (UK) : Batman: Arkham Knight

Techly (AU) : Fallout 4

Kill Screen (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Dorkly (US) : Rocket League

San Jose Mercury News (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Amazon (US) : Super Mario Maker

IGN España (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN España Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VGTV - LEVEL UP (NO) : Undertale

Estadão (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Suomi (FI) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Techpress.gr (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

UPROXX (US) : Bloodborne

Twinfinite (US) : Bloodborne

Gamers FTW (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gulf News (AE) : Rise of the Tomb Raider

Tom's Guide (US) : Super Mario Maker

Stars and Stripes (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

bit-tech (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Métro Montréal (CA) : Her Story

DGL.ru (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

hi-Tech.ua (UA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamempire (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Onet.pl Readers' Choice (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Actiontrip (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Actiontrip Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Destructoid (US) : Bloodborne

LevelUp (MX) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

O Vértice (BR) : Fallout 4

Gameswelt Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamers Honest Truth (CA) : Fallout 4

Generacion Pixel (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

High-Def Digest (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamesRadar Readers' Choice (US) : Fallout 4

GameWorld (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamespresso (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Código Espagueti (MX) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Digital Trends (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

God is a Geek (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

mxdwn (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamer.nl (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Eurogamer.pl Readers' Choice (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The News & Observer (US) : Fallout 4

Digital Spy (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Ars Technica (US) : Rocket League

The Irish Daily Star (IE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TUT.BY - 42 (BY) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

ScreenWEEK (IT) : Batman: Arkham Knight

Eurogamer.it Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Polygamia (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Facteur Geek (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Robots & Dragons (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamerGen (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Digital Spy Readers' Choice (UK) : Fallout 4

Copa Gamer (CL) : Fallout 4

Gunaxin (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Cine PREMIERE (MX) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Wired (US) : Super Mario Maker

Goliath (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Oyungezer Magazine (TR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Metro - GameCentral (UK) : Bloodborne

GameMAG (RU) : Bloodborne

JuegosdB (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Sky Mag (IT) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Gamer Assault Weekly (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Sverige Readers' Choice (SE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Maxim Magazine (US) : Fallout 4

Blesk.cz (CZ) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Eurogamer.nl (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

France Info (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Bleeding Cool (US) : Ori and the Blind Forest

Houston Press (US) : Life Is Strange

Entertainment Buddha (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

New Media Rockstars (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Golden4Games (OM) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

20 Minuten Readers' Choice (CH) : Fallout 4

CtrlAltElite (SE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

FZ (SE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Senses.se (SE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GeekWeek (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GameCrate (CA) : Fallout 4

Huffington Post Canada (CA) : Fallout 4

Den of Geek (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

SquabbleBox.co.uk - Entertainment Under Attack (UK) : Super Mario Maker

DarkStation (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

nachrichten.at (AT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Le Monde.fr (FR) : Undertale

Hitek Awards (FR) : Fallout 4

francetv info (FR) : Fallout 4

Première Magazine (FR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Malditos Nerds (AR) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Ibero 90.9 FM (MX) : Fallout 4

Tell Me About Games Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamer365 Readers' Choice (HU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Insomnia.gr (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Oneman (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CyprusGamer (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CyprusGamer Readers' Choice (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

ΣΠΟΡ FM 94.6 (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

SaudiGamer (SA) : Bloodborne

SaudiGamer Readers' Choice (SA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Toledo Blade (US) : Life Is Strange

New Statesman Magazine (UK) : Life Is Strange

Austin Chronicle (US) : Her Story

Diehard Gamefan (US) : Fallout 4

Eurogamer.de Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

SpazioGames (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

4Players Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

3DJuegos (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

3DJuegos Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GIGA (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor Danmark (DK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

MANIAC.de (DE) : Bloodborne

Gmbox Readers' Choice (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Brasil (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor Norge (NO) : Life Is Strange

Independent.ie (IE) : Rocket League

Next-Gen Gaming Blog (UK) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Polygon (US) : Her Story

Cg Magazine (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IDigital Times (US) : Fallout 4

TheSixthAxis (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TheSixthAxis Readers' Choice (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor UK (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Attack of the Fanboy (US) : Fallout 4

Dork Shelf (CA) : Life Is Strange

GameTrailers (US) : Bloodborne

Game Rant (US) : Fallout 4

Bidness Etc (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

GamesRadar (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

GamingShogun (CA) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Shacknews (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Stevivor (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Niche Gamer (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

AreaGames (DE) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

BILD Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

spieletipps Readers' Choice (DE) : Fallout 4

PlayGround.ru (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PlayGround.ru Readers' Choice (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Niubie (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

UOL Jogos Readers' Choice (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

SuperGamePlay (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gameparty (NL) : Star Wars Battlefront

InsideGamer Readers' Choice (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Daily Rush (DK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor Sverige (SE) : Fallout 4

Gamekapocs Readers' Choice (HU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Eurogamer.se (SE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

4Players (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Eurogamer.net (UK) : Bloodborne

The Escapist (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamingBolt (IN) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor Italia (IT) : Fallout 4

Eurogamer.es (ES) : Bloodborne

Eurogamer.es Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Giant Bomb (US) : Super Mario Maker

DualShockers (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Game Revolution (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Eurogamer.pt Readers' Choice (PT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Brasilgamer Readers' Choice (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

StrefaGier.pl (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Dome.fi (FI) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Eurogamer.net Readers' Choice (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GameWorld Readers' Choice (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DarkZero (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Metropolist (UK) : Undertale

Gaming Trend (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PlayNation Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gameswelt (DE) : Rise of the Tomb Raider

Gamereactor PT (PT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VGNetwork (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VGNetwork Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

COGconnected (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

EGM (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

BagoGames (US) : Rocket League

Entertainment Focus (UK) : Life Is Strange

Geeks and Com' (CA) : Rocket League

Gamereactor Deutschland (DE) : Fallout 4

Game*Spark Readers' Choice (JP) : Fallout 4

GamAlive Readers' Choice (FR) : Fallout 4

4Gamers Readers' Choice (BE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Escapist Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Навигатор игрового мира (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

AnaitGames Readers' Choice (ES) : Bloodborne

Gamesource (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Tribo Gamer Readers' Choice (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Gamer Access (US) : Undertale

Alfa Beta Juega Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PWRUP Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

XGamers.gr (GR) : Fallout 4

Unwinnable (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamersGlobal (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

MMGN Readers' Choice (AU) : Fallout 4

Zero Punctuation (US) : Undertale

Game Informer (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Game Informer Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GameSpot Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

NRSGamers (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Magazine.HD (PT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor GRTV (UK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamereactor Suomi (FI) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Metacritic (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Metacritic Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

WCCFtech (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

WCCFtech Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamer.no Readers' Choice (NO) : Fallout 4

IGN (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

USgamer (US) : Super Mario Maker

Gaming Age (US) : Splatoon

We The Nerdy (US) : Bloodborne

Atomix.vg (MX) : Bloodborne

Stay Nerd (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Hardcore Gamer (US) : Tales from the Borderlands

GameSided (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Thunderbolt (UK) : Fallout 4

Multiplayer.it (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

New Game Network (CA) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GameFAQs (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

FilmGamesEtc (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Atomix.vg Readers' Choice (MX) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gameliner Readers' Choice (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Varvat (SE) : Fallout 4

FOK! (NL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Middle East Readers' Choice (AE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Playmoments Readers' Choice (DE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Everyeye.it (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Everyeye.it Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamersPack (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Forbes (US) : Fallout 4

Just Push Start (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Chom 97.7 FM - Girls on Games Readers' Choice (CA) : Life Is Strange

SmashPad (US) : Axiom Verge

Gameplanet Readers' Choice (NZ) : Fallout 4

Ginx TV (UK) : Kerbal Space Program

Game Podunk (US) : Undertale

Pixel Dynamo (UK) : Fallout 4

IGN Middle East (AE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Italia (IT) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

The Game Fanatics (US) : Fallout 4

PróximoNível (PT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

VGChartz (UK) : Rocket League

VGChartz Readers' Choice (UK) : Bloodborne

EDGE Magazine (UK) : Bloodborne

GameCritics.com (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GameOver Readers' Choice (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Unboxholics Readers' Choice (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

MonsterVine (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Giant Bomb Readers' Choice (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

GAME Readers' Choice (UK) : Fallout 4

VideoGames24 Readers' Choice (GR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GAMEmag Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Game-eXperience.it Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Hrej.cz Readers' Choice (CZ) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CoPlaNet Readers' Choice (IT) : Batman: Arkham Knight

Tell Me About Games (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

All Around Gaming Hub (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TechRaptor (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

TechRaptor Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gematsu Readers' Choice (US) : Bloodborne

The FAT Website (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

ActuGaming.net Readers' Choice (FR) : Life Is Strange

PressFire.no (NO) : Rocket League

Kotaku Speakys Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Library Journal Reviews (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Undercover-Network Readers' Choice (NL) : Assassin's Creed Syndicate

WEGAME Expo (UA) : Call of Duty: Black Ops III

IGN Brasil Readers' Choice (BR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Games.cz (CZ) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Invisible Gamer (US) : Splatoon

Irrational Passions (US) : Undertale

NeoGAF (US) : Bloodborne

Игромания (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Denver Post - Game On (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GamersNET Readers' Choice (NL) : Fallout 4

VGTimes.Ru Readers' Choice (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Games.cz Readers' Choice (CZ) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Sector Readers' Choice (SK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

NZGamer.com Readers' Choice (NZ) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PlayDome Readers' Choice (HU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Horrible Night (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Game4Me Readers' Choice (BE) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Metro - GameCentral Readers' Choice (UK) : Bloodborne

GameSoul Readers' Choice (IT) : Bloodborne

Critically Sane (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Livegamers (FI) : Fallout 4

Analog Addiction (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Middle Of Nowhere Gaming (US) : Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Foxbyte (PT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Loading.se Readers' Choice (SE) : Bloodborne and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Mail.Ru Readers' Choice (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gamezilla Readers' Choice (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Pure M Magazine (IE) : Fallout 4

411mania (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Play Legit (US) : Fallout 4

Play Legit Readers' Choice (US) : Fallout 4

Aussie Game Geek (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Black Beta Select Awards (AU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

IGN Black Beta Select Awards Editors' Choice (AU) : Bloodborne

GRY OnLine (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GRY OnLine Readers' Choice (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The New York Videogame Awards (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Danish Game Awards (DK) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

AIAS - D.I.C.E. Awards (US) : Fallout 4

HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards (SG) : Bloodborne

NWTV Readers' Choice (NL) : Fallout 4

Hobby Consolas Readers' Choice (ES) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Premio Drago D'Oro (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Premio Drago D'Oro Readers' Choice (IT) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GAMETECH (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GAMETECH Readers' Choice (RU) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Game Developers Choice Awards (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

SXSW Gaming Awards (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

NAVGTR Awards (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

gram.pl Readers' Choice (PL) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

BAFTA Awards (UK) : Fallout 4

Game Industry News Readers' Choice (US) : Fallout 4

BaziCenter (IR) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Screen Rant (US) : Rise of the Tomb Raider

N4G Readers' Choice (US) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Straits Times Digital Life Awards (SG) : The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Digital Life Awards Readers' Choice (SG) : Assassin's Creed Syndicate




* The Winners of this year *


The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 257

The Critics' Picks - 169

The Readers' Picks - 88


Fallout 4 - 58

The Critics' Picks - 40

The Readers' Picks - 18


Bloodborne - 31

The Critics' Picks - 23

The Readers' Picks - 8


Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - 29

The Critics' Picks - 28

The Readers' Picks - 1


Life Is Strange - 12

The Critics' Picks - 10

The Readers' Picks - 2


Super Mario Maker - 8

Undertale - 8

Rocket League - 7

Rise of the Tomb Raider - 5

Batman: Arkham Knight - 4

Her Story - 3

Assassin's Creed Syndicate - 2

Splatoon - 2

Axiom Verge - 1

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - 1

Cibele - 1

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - 1

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - 1

Kerbal Space Program - 1

Massive Chalice - 1

Ori and the Blind Forest - 1

Prune - 1

Star Wars Battlefront - 1

Sunless Sea - 1

Tales from the Borderlands - 1

Until Dawn - 1


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* The Big Winner of the Year *

 The Witcher 3 told some of the most immersive stories not just in 2015, but in any RPG to date. Because in The Witcher 3, every detail in its landscape builds toward an immersive, convincing world full of exciting quests, where your actions can have real consequences. It was a year of numerous detailed worlds, but after all is said and done, and we look back on 2015, it was The Witcher 3's that truly felt alive.  

- GameSpot -

 For the better part of the last decade, open-world RPGs have struggled to marry measured storytelling, free-form exploration, and enjoyable minute-to-minute gameplay. The Witcher 3 might be the genre’s first prototype, if not the final form, of how that ideal marriage might look.  

- IGN -

 Whether you're hunting down monsters, solving murder mysteries, or just playing Gwent with the locals, The Witcher 3 is chock full of compelling side content that goes far beyond the repetitive fetch quests and collectathons we've come to expect from open-world games. Superb writing and surprising twists extend far beyond the main storyline, making all the question marks that litter your world map worth exploring.  

- Game Informer -

Next Page - 2015 Genre Awards
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* Updated. Thanks, Geralt of Rivia! - TrustedReviews / Game-Debate / Technobubble /  Lazygamer /Jeuxvideo.com / The Koalition / Hospodářské noviny / The Daily Mirror / NDTV / Millenium / Actiontrip / LevelUp / GameWorld / Gamespresso / Polygamia / GamerGen / Digital Spy Readers' Choice / Den of Geek / DarkStation / Tell Me About Games Readers' Choice / Eurogamer.de Readers' Choice / SpazioGames / 4Players Readers' Choice / 3DJuegos / GIGA / Gamereactor Danmark / TheSixthAxis / InsideGamer Readers' Choice / Cg Magazine / 
Eurogamer.se Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Mohsen Movafaghpoor! - TIME Award.

* Updated. Thanks, Galard Malvic! - TecMundo Games Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, KAZ HIRAI! - Gamefa.Com Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, razecah cucu! - CG Spectrum / VidaExtra / Sun Times National / SA Gamer / Areajugones / Yahoo Tech / Actualité Houssenia Writing / BGR / Zoomin.TV / Jagat Play / Junkee / The Games Cabin / Twinfinite / Gamers FTW / Destructoid / Gamers Honest Truth / God is a Geek / The Irish Daily Star / Wired / Goliath / Metro - GameCentral / Gamer Assault Weekly / Bleeding Cool / 
Entertainment Buddha Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Nathanael Diego Farias Santos! - City A.M. / PopOptiq / the Guardian / Digitally Downloaded / Dorkly / Amazon / O Vértice / New Media Rockstars /  GameCrate / Huffington Post Canada / Malditos Nerds / Ibero 90.9 FM / Next-Gen Gaming Blog Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Roman Ro! - CraveOnline Award.

* Updated. Thanks, Christopher Jefferson! - GamesMaster Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Nemesis1963! - MTV Latin America Award.

* Updated. Thanks, gamesonmymind! - Press Play TV / Mashable Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Galard Malvic! - Estadão Award.

* Updated. Thanks, Alex Mercer! - Código Espagueti / mxdwn / CyprusGamer Readers' Choice Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Jakub Musioł! - Eurogamer.pl Readers' Choice Award.

* Updated. Thanks, powereagle! - The News & Observer / TUT.BY - 42 / Facteur Geek / Robots & Dragons / Copa Gamer / Oyungezer Magazine / Blesk.cz / Eurogamer.nl / France Info / Golden4Games / FZ / Senses.se / SquabbleBox.co.uk - Entertainment Under Attack / nachrichten.at / Le Monde.fr / francetv info / Première Magazine / Insomnia.gr / Oneman / CyprusGamer / ΣΠΟΡ FM 94.6 / 
SaudiGamer Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, Gamer! - Ars Technica Award.

* Updated. Thanks, texasgoldrush! - Houston Press Award.

* Updated. Thanks, Mohammad! - BaziCenter / Screen Rant Awards.

* Updated. Thanks, ZionT! - N4G / The Straits Times Digital Life Awards

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