Special Achievement

Best Original IP

It's easy to forget that the sequels of today were born from unique intellectual properties that at one point were brand new. But as the game industry has matured, so have various game franchises, in some cases churning out sequel after sequel after sequel. Unfortunately, all these sequels makes it increasingly difficult for original games to stand out among the crowd. Luckily, 2009 happened to be a particularly strong year for original content, giving us five fantastic nominees.

Editorial Nominees

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Readers' Choice Voting

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Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure

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Ninja Blade

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inFamous

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Dragon Age: Origins

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Brutal Legend

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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

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Flower

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Scribblenauts

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Prototype

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Borderlands

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27 Comments

  • digi_matrix

    Posted Dec 24, 2009 11:52 am GMT

    Prototype.

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:07 pm GMT

    What does IP mean? Oh well. Infamous.

  • contentxcontext

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 7:27 am GMT

    Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure , now thats a good new ip

  • contentxcontext

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 7:26 am GMT

    "I am still confused as to what the hell this award is for. IP? Also if you answer can you explain it?"

    Intellectual property i.e. new in a franchise

  • Nuggetol

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:24 am GMT

    I am still confused as to what the hell this award is for. IP? Also if you answer can you explain it?

  • STARS_Splinter

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 4:49 am GMT

    InFamous? What? The 'original' IP was about as generic a superhero story as they come. Fun game, yes, but hardly that imaginative in setting. Same goes for Dragon Age, much as I do like the setting of Ferelden.

  • Flameberge

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 3:00 pm GMT

    @ Avenger1324

    You seem to be assuming there is logic to this process :p

  • Avenger1324

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 12:56 pm GMT

    let's see - GS gave Infamous 9.0, and Dragon Age 9.5 - and they went with Infamous

  • sambob530

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 10:14 am GMT

    INFAMOUS FTW!!

  • androidcraig

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 6:35 am GMT

    Should have been Dragon Age, hands down...

  • solidgamer

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 6:01 am GMT

    ummm Borderlands....

  • secretgamer666

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 3:14 am GMT

    it was either infamous or brutal legend

  • David-Macphail

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 5:20 pm GMT

    Infamous is head and shoulders above the other candidates.

  • girdz

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 4:37 pm GMT

    Good pick.

  • HavQ-san

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 4:31 pm GMT

    Oh dang, now THIS is a hard choice.

  • Racer850

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 2:31 pm GMT

    Infamous deserved to win imo.

  • KingWev

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 7:38 am GMT

    Infamous for me, really well done game, usually a sequel or two down the road and the game looks like this, for a first try it was very polished

  • linkyshinks

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 6:57 am GMT

    Henry Hatsworth was awesome.

  • wez_316

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 2:27 pm GMT

    Madworld anyone? That's probably what I would go for!

  • Avenger1324

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 12:52 pm GMT

    Dragon Age - another great RPG from Bioware

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    Special Achievement
  • Dec 22
    Dubious Honors
  • Dec 23
    Genre Awards
  • Dec 24
    Platform Awards
  • Dec 25
    Game of the Year

Readers' Choice winners are announced Jan. 27, 2010