Yeah, so we can be a little slow at times, but like a fine wine we age well - time will tell if the games we saw at this year's Electronic Entertaniment Expo should be so lucky.  After over 72 hours of sleep depravation, convention food prices and sensory overload, reacclimation to society can be a complicated process - let alone needing to definitively select the best of the best from, well....the rest at the show. 

After two weeks of heated debate and intense deliberation the jury is out and the verdict rests at our feet - or rather - below this intro that you've probably already skipped.  If you've read this far, we salute you!    We'll be saluting these games over the next few months as we dig deeper into the production process to take you behind the scenes with dev diary updates, new screens and trailers, interviews, podcasts, video clips and more as we trace these top titles from show floor to your front door. There's oh so much to come - but for now - without further adieu - let me introduce to you (heh, that rhymed) the:

GAMEHELPER Best of E306 Awards

Best Adventure Game - Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess [Wii] - Nintendo/Nintendo
Best Action Game - Gears of War [X360] - MS Game Studios/Epic
Best Platformer - Super Mario Galaxy [Wii] - Nintendo/Nintendo
Best Shooter - Crysis [PC] - EA Games/Crytek
Best Fighting Game - Virtua Fighter V [PS3] - Sega/Sega
Best Strategy Game - Company of Heroes [PC] - THQ/Relic
Best Sim - Spore [PC] - EAGames/Maxis
Best Puzzle Game - Lumines II [PSP] - Buena Vist Games/Q Entertainment
Best RPG - Mass Effect [X360] - MS Game Studios/Bioware
Best Racing Game - Cars [Multiple Platforms] - THQ/Rainbow Studios
Best Sports Game - Madden NFL  07 [Wii] - EA Sports/EA Tiburon
Best Family Title - Viva Pinata [X360] - MS Games Studios/RARE
Best MMO - Tabula Rasa - NCSoft
Best Handheld Game - LocoRoco [PSP] - SCEA/SCEJ
Best Booth - Ubisoft (for excellence in set design!)
Best Swag - Slime Keychains - Square-Enix
Best Trailer - Metal Gear Solid 4 - Konami/Kojima Productions
Suprise Hit! - Alone in the Dark [PC, PS3, X360] - Atari/Eden Studios

Best of Show - Bioshock [PC, PS3, X360] - Take-Two/Irrational Games

We'll be linking each of the awards above to ongoing coverage and content in the weeks to come.

Meanwhile, read on to read our justification for the selections above and be sure to visit our E3 Blog to read our thoughts from the show floor!