2013 Nominees For Hobby Gaming's Top Prize 29
An anonymous reader writes "The thirteenth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming has five contenders: Wil Wheaton's "Tabletop" YouTube video series; the massive history of gaming book Playing at the World ; the Metatopia gaming convention where designers pay for access to alpha gamers; the romance-genre card game Love Letter ; and the RPG Dog Eat Dog in which players explore the dynamics of colonialism. When it comes to this award, typically all of the nominees are worth checking out."
This isn't gaming's top award. (Score:4, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiel_des_Jahres [wikipedia.org]
Spiel des Jahres is board gaming's top award. Geared towards Euro-style games, Speil is like the Hugo of game awards and winners print gladly print the logo on their boxes. (Somtimes excessively, like Ticket to Ride which has the Spiel logo on every side of the box.)
I've never heard of this award show, so I bet the submitter is in the marketing department of said show.