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2006 Expansion of the Year
 

Editor's Choice: EVE Revelations I (CCP Games)

This was by far the hardest award to decide. EVE won by a whisker over EverQuest II's Echoes of Faydwer. The knock against this one is that it is only part one of three, but really, the innovations and changes it made to the game were sweeping. Things like "Warp To 0" altered the way people play EVE, while contracts added a much needed layer. We finally decided with this question: which expansion would be more likely to make you re-subscribe? The answer: EVE Revelations I.

Honorable Mention: EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer (SOE)
Honorable Mention: Guild Wars Factions and Nightfall (ArenaNet/NCSoft)

You guessed it, this one could have, and many say should have, won. Echoes of Faydwer added new races and did everything anyone could hope an expansion could do. This one breathed some fresh air into EverQuest II and was an all-around solid expansion, likely their best. That shouldn't diminish the accomplishments of ArenaNet and their work on two expansions (they call them sequels, but make no mistake, these games are expansions) to the massively popular Guild Wars.

2006 New Game of the Year
 

Editor's Choice: Not Awarded

No one will remember 2006 as a banner year for the MMORPG genre, at least not in terms of new products. Most the major titles (Age of Conan, Lord of the Rings Online, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and Pirates of the Burning Sea) slipped into 2007 and those that did launch didn't stand up to the critics or the players. In fact, it may be considered the year of the flop. Dark and Light, ArchLord and Auto Assault all bombed spectacularly, while games like Turbine's Dungeons & Dragons Online may not have bombed, but did clock in well below where experts and fans thought it should.

Honorable Mention: Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (Turbine/Atari)

It was the only half-way decent game to make it to market this year and many would have given it the award by default, but honestly, we deserve better than a game that wins by default.

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