Game Critic Awards nominees announced, Rock Band owns the industry’s face

Imagine my disappointment when I realized that the e-mail Geoff Keighly sent me this evening was not a love letter to me, telling me how awesome Destructoid is. I was in fact, simply just one of the thousand names on an e-mail blast announcing the nominees for this year's Game Critics Awards.
While everyone at Destructoid has been relying on prescriptions meds to get through the day since learning they were not part of the awards committee (which consists of critics from Electronic Gaming Monthly, Newsweek, Kotaku, and more), we did cover the Spike TV videogame awards. Ignoring this out of spite would be immature, and if Destructoid is one thing, it's certainly not immature.
The list contains no real surprises, but Rock Band certainly is dominating with five nominations; Electronic Arts leads the publishers pack with 14 nominated titles; and the Xbox 360 is the most nominated platform with […]

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