Gamasutra Wins 2nd Consecutive Webby Award
Not content with just winning a Maggie Award for Game Developer last Friday, the team here at Gamasutra awoke this morning to find out that we won a Webby too, and for the second year running, too.
This time, our Chicago-based news editor Brandon Boyer is the lucky personage who will be charged with turning up and delivering a witty 5-word speech (and not getting laughed at by Rob Corddry!), after my semi-successful attempt last year, yay - here's the full info on the win cross-posted from Gama itself:
"Gamasutra is pleased to announce that, after winning a Webby last year, it has once again been victorious at the 11th Annual Webby Awards in the 'Games-Related' category, a significant achievement for the CMP Game Group-run site in the competition that the New York Times calls 'the Oscars of the Internet'.
Other nominees in the 'Games-Related' category this year were CNET Networks' GameSpot (which picked up the 'People's Voice' public-voted section of the awards) and AOL's GameDaily, as well as the official websites for LucasArts' LEGO Star Wars II and Thrillville.
The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization with over 500 members including internet 'founding father' Vinton Cerf, R/GA's Chief Bob Greenberg, Simpsons creator Matt Groening, The Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington, and film producer Harvey Weinstein.
Winners will be honored at The 11th Annual Webby Awards on June 5 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The gala event will once again hosted by former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry, and will showcase award winners delivering their famous five-word acceptance speeches, with David Bowie and the founders of YouTube winning special achievement awards."









Comments
yay!
so can commoners get into this webby awards thing?
Posted by: dessgeega | May 1, 2007 10:18 PM
Not sure it's open to the public, sadly - though they may be able to buy tickets, but they are just a tad expensive. Apparently, the Webbys have to pay for their expensive-looking trophies somehow!
Posted by: simonc | May 2, 2007 6:31 AM