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IGN Announces January ``Editors' Choice'' Game Awards; EA's NFL Street is January's Big Winner.


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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2004

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 Entertainment -- home to IGN.com(R), the web's largest gaming and entertainment destination with over 15 million monthly unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions.  -- announces its "Editors' Choice" selections for January January: see month. , honoring the month's best new game releases.

IGN's editorial team reviewed over 40 games in January and singled out the month's best new titles for each of the major game platforms -- Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox -- bestowing the prestigious "Editors' Choice" award on those games that earned their highest recommendations. January's award-winners are:

                                                ESRB
   Publisher     Title                          Rating*    Platform(s)
   ---------     -----                          -------    -----------
Battlefront.com  Combat Mission: Afrika Korps   NR          PC

Capcom           Maximo vs. Army of Zin         T           PS2

Electronic Arts  NFL Street                     E        PS2, GC, Xbox

Three Rings
 Design, Inc.    Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates         NR          PC

                  *E = Everyone; T = Teen; M = Mature


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 with Electronic Arts, the world's most successful publishing house, and Capcom, the Japanese company behind such mega-franchises as Street Fighter and Resident Evil," said Peer Schneider Peer Schneider (born 1971-04-09) is the current Vice-President of Content Publishing at IGN Entertainment. He oversees all of the network's editorial content, including that of IGN, GameSpy, TeamXbox, and Rotten Tomatoes.

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, IGN's Network Director.

To read the full reviews for each award-winner and a complete list of current and past winners, go to http://games.ign.com and click on the "Editors' Choice" section link.

About IGN Entertainment

IGN Entertainment, through its flagship network IGN.com, is the Internet's leading information and entertainment destination for teen and young adult gamers. IGN serves its audience by providing both free and subscription-based content and services. IGN's award winning content -- two Webby See WBI.  People's Voice Awards and two Wired Magazine's Readers Raves Awards -- attracts more than 15 million unique visitors a month, including over 6.2 million registered users and more than 82,000 paying subscribers. IGN offers its business customers a full spectrum of integrated marketing solutions to reach this large web-centric audience. These products include fixed placement and impression-based advertising, sponsorships, permission marketing, custom publishing, e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , direct e-mail marketing Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing.  and content licensing. For more information, please visit http://www.ign.com.
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