The Hylia VGA 2010 Results!

The results are in! Unlike the last two years, there were few enough ties that I'm comfortable leaving the results as is without any tiebreaking.

And here they are (the games that did not win the awards for which they were nominated are listed under their category in transparent text):

Best Action Game: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Red Dead Redemption, Darksiders, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Monster Hunter Tri

Best Platforming Game: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Donkey Kong Country Returns, Super Meat Boy

Best Shooting Game: Halo: Reach
Call of Duty: Black Ops, GoldenEye 007, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

Best Fighting Game: Super Street Fighter IV
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

Best Adventure Game: Metroid: Other M
Heavy Rain, 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Best Strategy Game: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale

Best Role-Playing Game: Mass Effect 2
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, Final Fantasy XIII

Best Puzzle Game: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, Picross 3D, VVVVVV

Best Sports Game: FIFA 11, NCAA Football 11, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

Best Racing Game: Gran Turismo 5, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

Best Music Game: Beat Hazard, Jam with the Band, Rock Band 3

Best Audio: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Donkey Kong Country Returns, Gran Turismo 5, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, Super Meat Boy

Most Technically Impressive Graphics: Gran Turismo 5
Call of Duty: Black Ops, Donkey Kong Country Returns, God of War III, Monster Hunter Tri

Most Artistically Impressive Graphics: Kirby's Epic Yarn
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Heavy Rain, Super Mario Galaxy 2

Best Story: Heavy Rain, Red Dead Redemption
Epic Mickey, GoldenEye 007, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, Mass Effect 2, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Super Meat Boy

Most Innovative: Heavy Rain
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Kinect, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

Best Downloadable (Console or Handheld) Game: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, Super Meat Boy
Limbo

Best PC Game: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Super Meat Boy

Best Multiplatform Game: Mass Effect 2
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Best PSP Game: Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?

Best Nintendo DS Game: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Super Scribblenauts

Best PlayStation 3 Game: Gran Turismo 5
3D Dot Heroes, God of War III

Best Xbox 360 Game: Halo: Reach
Super Meat Boy

Best Wii Game: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Donkey Kong Country Returns

Favorite Announcement: Nintendo 3DS
Donkey Kong Country Returns, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Kirby's Epic Yarn, LittleBigPlanet 2, Paper Mario (3DS), Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, Team Ico Collection

Biggest Disappointment: Metroid: Other M
GoldenEye 007, PlayStation Move, The story of Metroid: Other M, No Zelda release, No Pikmin information or release, The "motion fueled gaming" movement of Kinect and Move, The disintegration of the Call of Duty franchise

GAME OF THE YEAR

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Donkey Kong Country Returns, Heavy Rain, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Super Meat Boy

Thanks to everyone who voted, and I hope this can be successful again next year.