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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF JUNE 4 | E3 2012
1UP’s Best of E3 2012
Cover Story: We played a whole lot of games this week. Here’s what we loved.
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his year’s E3 has come to an end, though we still have plenty to say about the games we’ve seen over the past week — both good and bad. For the moment, though, let’s celebrate the good. We’ve singled out more than 30 different games across 10 categories as the best of the show, after which we voted for the final picks over the course of several lengthy sessions (which we’ve recorded for posterity in the form of our latest Games, Dammit! episode). The titles below therefore represent some of the finest games of the coming year.
1UP took a slightly different tack to categories this year, though. Most publications’ E3 voting (including our own in years past) observes standard formats such as “best of platform” or “best of genre,” but it’s occurred to us that those categories don’t mean as much as they used to. Most of today’s best games appear on multiple platforms, and genre boundaries have grown so fuzzy as to be practically immaterial. Instead, we’ve chosen to adopt what we consider to be more meaningful awards based around categories that reflect the “future of games” angle from which we tackled this year’s show.
