Winter Family Gamer Award Winners Announced

December 1, 2010

UK-based Family Gamers has selected the winners of its Winter Family Gamers Awards. The awards are divided up based on PEGI rated, age-appropriate games for various age groups such as Infants, Juniors, Students, Workers, Parents and Seniors.

All of this season's nominees are eligible for the Family Gamer Game of the Year Award, which are chosen by the public. Voting on that award begins December 12 and ends on January 31.

Here are this season's top games:

Infants (3 to 6 yrs) - Diego's Build and Rescue - DS

Juniors (7 to 11 yrs) - Kinect Sports 360 - Kinect

Students (12 to 17 yrs) - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3

Workers (18 and over) - Fable III - Xbox 360

Parents - Red Dead Redemption - 360/PS3

Seniors - Pictionary - DS

For the full list, check out www.familygamer.co.uk.

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Re: Winter Family Gamer Award Winners Announced

Submitted by Left4Dead on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 15:05.

Whenever an organization like this doesn't put PC or Mac games in their lists and only include consoles, they imply that there are no family friendly games for PCs and Macs, which is a complete lie. But people buy into that lie.

- Left4Dead

Why are zombies always eating brains? I want to see zombies that eat toes for a living. Undead-related pun intended.

- Left4Dead Why are zombies always eating brains? I want to see zombies that eat toes for a living. Undead-related pun intended.

Re: Winter Family Gamer Award Winners Announced

Submitted by CyberSkull on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 04:20.

The reality is that there is a glut of family friendly games for Mac OS X and Windows. But in this case consoles stand out for 2 reasons to my thinking. With a smaller set of titles, its easier to build a list of popular titles for each group. The other being that it is easier to monitor what the kids are playing on the (presumably large) tv in the common area of the house.

Re: Winter Family Gamer Award Winners Announced

Submitted by Andrew Eisen on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 16:16.

Looks like the folks who write for Family Gamer simply don't play PC/Mac games and that's why there aren't any nominated. Still, it would be nice if they'd bring someone on who does play computer games.

Andrew Eisen

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