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The alternative Game BAFTAs are BACK!

Way of the Rodent's antidote to the false pomp and made-up ceremony of the 'big one' returns to the tiny downstairs function room of a London boozer on the 31st of January and you're all invited - awards will be won, reputations will be ruined, again, and heroes will say stuff they're glad won't be noticed.

The Rodent Game Awards: Not bigger and better - still small, still rubbish.

Oh! It's the Original Spirit of Videogaming!

On THURSDAY the 31st of January, The Royal George in that-there-London will once again play host to the Rodent Game Awards - in a cosy beer-stained function room we shall be awarding the generally overlooked 'Rodents'. Forget your BAFTAs - this is proper videogaming spirit: having a laugh and loving the best of gaming in 2007.

Although the venue is small and the event ridiculously low-key: we'd like to make an open invitation once again to any of you lot who fancy coming down and picking up your awards or to drink away your disappointments. Games-makers, code-under-the-fingernails heroes especially welcome but if you enjoy videogames and prefer to play than to pretend then book your free tickets here: http://rodent.eventwax.com/rodent-game-awards-night-2008 (hurry - limited availability).

Oh and if any of you nice PR or Marketing types fancy aligning yourself with one of the last independent and free-spirited voices in games media please talk to us about sponsorship, especially of the bar.

Last year we dressed Capcom in the gay cowboy outfits from Dead Rising, praised Criterion's knobs, read out loads of apologies and drank much Belle Vue Kriek. Oh and we'd like to extend, once again, a very warm welcome to our special guest - Rodrigo Hensley of Sony Computer Entertainment Belize, he's a card and no mistake.

www.WayoftheRodent.com - you lucky people!

Award Categories and Nominations for 2007 in full:

Write-ups here: http://www.wayoftherodent.com/features/RodentAwards2007.htm

Game of the year 2007

Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

Halo 3 (Xbox-360/PC)

Bioshock (Xbox-360/PC)

Forza 2 (Xbox 360)

Portal (Multiplatform)

Crackdown (Xbox-360/PC)

2006 Winner: Ridge Racer 6

Gameplay: Best game level

All Ghillied Up - Call of Duty 4

Level 19 - Portal

Fort Frolic - Bioshock

Nottingham - Resistance: Fall of Man

2006 Winner: Tivliz Asylum - Black

Gameplay: Most difficult moment in a videogame to explain to the missus

Portal - Because girls just don't get travel through time and space

The Witcher - Oooh Missus!

Guitar Hero II - Sticky Star Power

Zelda Phantom Hourglass - Muttering Mentalista

2006 Winner: Dead Rising - Gay Cowboy Outfit

Gameplay: Big Grin

Super Mario Galaxy - Start to finish

Portal - I'm Still Alive

Earth Defence Force 2017 - Mothership takedown

DiRT - Rally of Japan

2006 Winner: DEFCON - Oops! Sorry New York!

Technical Achievement: Bestest Explosions

Crackdown - Car pyres

Motorstorm - Crashy crashy

Halo 3 - Scarab

Flatout Ultimate Carnage - Car go boom

2006 Winner: Black

Technical Achievement: Synthesised 'Ghostbusters!' Memorial Voice and Character

Nathan Drake (Uncharted)

The entire cast (Bioshock)

GlaDOS (Portal)

Local DJ (Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles)

2006 Winner: Marcus Fenix (Gears of War)

Technical Achievement: The Holy Shit will you just look at that Eyes of Jesus Award

CoD4 - Helicopter flight over the coast

Assassin's Creed - The view from your first vantage point climb

Uncharted - Many. Many moments

Bioshock - Opening ocean sequence

2006 Winner: New Award

For the People, with the People: Best game to play with your mates

Forza 2 - Online racing

Big Team Battle - Halo 3

FIFA 2008 - Pro 5v5

CoD4 - Multiplayer

2006 Winner: Gears of War

For the People, with the People: The 'Ooh, can I have a go please' award for most inclusive game

Wii Sports

Guitar Hero III

Singstar PS3

Super Mario Galaxy

2006 Winner: Wii Sports (it's that bleedin' inclusive)

For the People, with the People: The 'This-is-Bleedin'-Ace-What-the-Hell-Were-FEDGE/GamesTUM-Thinking' Unexpected Diamond Award

Earth Defence Force 2017

The Witcher

Jetpac Refuelled

FIFA 2008

2006 Winner: New Award

Rodent Readers Award

Voting in progress - results TBA

2006 Winner: Guitar Hero

Notes for Editors

An average 100,000 unique readers visit www.wayoftherodent.com every month

33,000 readers subscribe to the RSS feed

More than 140,000 readers downloaded our smash-hit Paper Arcade cut-out and stick arcade cabs

Rodent is well-established as the first stop for thirty-something chaps spending serious money on their dirty little gaming habit

The magazine launched in the autumn of 2003 and is published monthly

Rodent features contributions from a global team of 90 writers

Out at the beginning of every month at www.wayoftherodent.com Fresh, Fresh, Fresh!

All content is available for syndication

For further information

Please contact Publisher Richard Koworld - Email: koworld@wayoftherodent.com Telephone: 07971 600 936

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