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.
Comments
Re: Winter Family Gamer Award Winners Announced
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.
Re: Winter Family Gamer Award Winners Announced
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
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