ECTS Award Winners Announced

The ECTS Awards - known unofficially as 'Stars' - were presented to the winners at 3pm today in the Grand Hall at Olympia.

The full line-up of winners is: CTW Award for Marketing: Pokemon from Nintendo, MCV Best of British Award: Codemasters

The following awards were voted for by more than 800 visitors to the ECTS
website:

Best Console of the Year: PlayStation 2
Best PC Hardware: Voodoo 5500 from 3dfx
Best Console Game of the Year: Perfect Dark from Nintendo
Best PC Game of the Year: Diablo II from Havas Interactive
Best Reference Product of the Year: Encarta 2000 from Microsoft
Publisher of the Year: Havas Interactive

The Game of the Show Awards were voted for by a panel of 15 European journalists and presented at ECTS to the following lucky winners:
Overall Best Game of the Show: Mario Kart Advance (Nintendo)
Best PC Game of the Show: Sacrifice (Interplay)
Best PlayStation Game of the Show: GT2000 (Sony)
Best Nintendo Game of the Show: Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Nintendo)
Best Dreamcast Game of the Show: Jet Grind Radio (Sega)
Best Handheld Game of the Show: Mario Kart Advance (Nintendo)
Best Multiplayer Game of the Show: Mario Kart Advance (Nintendo)

In addition to receiving a coveted 'Star', winners of the brand new Game of the Show Awards also won the rights to use the ECTS and Award logos on the product's marketing material.

The winners of the Game of the Year Awards, as voted for by key European gaming
publications, are:

PC Game of the year Benelux as voted by readers of Power Unlimited: The Sims (EA), Console Game of the year Benelux as voted by readers of Power Unlimited: GT2 (Sony), PC Game of the year Eastern Europe as voted by readers of CD Action: Age of Empires II (Microsoft), PC Game of the year France as voted by readers of Joystick: Age of Empires II (Microsoft), Console Game of the year France as voted by readers of Joypad: GT2 (Sony), PC Game of the year Germany as voted by readers of ZD Net: Deus Ex (Eidos Interactive), Console Game of the year Germany as voted by readers of ZD Net: Resident Evil - Code:Veronica (Capcom), PC Game of the year Italy as voted by readers of PC Zeta: Planescape Torment (Interplay), Console Game of the year Italy as voted by readers of Mega Console: ISS Pro Evolution (Konami), Game of the Year Russia as voted by readers of Game.exe: Unreal Tournament (Infogrames), Game of the year Scandinavia as voted by readers of PC Hemma: The Sims (EA), PC Game of the year Spain as voted by readers of Micromania: Age of Empires II (Microsoft), Console Game of the year Spain as voted by readers of Micromania: Soul Calibur (Namco).

The next ECTS is being held at ExCeL, London, 2-4 September 2001.