{"id":9672,"date":"2018-01-05T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_scores_big_in_the_2017_edge_magazine_awards"},"modified":"2018-01-05T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:45:00","slug":"nintendo-scores-big-in-the-2017-edge-magazine-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/05\/nintendo-scores-big-in-the-2017-edge-magazine-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Scores Big In The 2017 EDGE Magazine Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Wild!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_scores_big_in_the_2017_edge_magazine_awards\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_scores_big_in_the_2017_edge_magazine_awards\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wild!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Print media may be a shadow of its former self but in the UK, one publication continues to earn the respect of gamers and developers &#8211; and that&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/edge\/\">EDGE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The magazine has been around since the early &#8217;90s and regularly runs yearly awards to celebrate the best games, hardware and developers of the past 12 months. Issue #315 features the 2017 list, and it should come as little surprise to learn that Nintendo features quite heavily.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 games of 2017, according to EDGE magazine, are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Zelda: BOTW<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Super Mario Odyssey\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What Remains of Edith Finch\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PUBG<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ARMS<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nex Machina<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nioh<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yakuza 0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Polybius<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Divinity: Original Sin II\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch won the year&#8217;s &#8220;Best Hardware&#8221; award, with the SNES Classic Edition coming in as a runner-up. Nintendo was Publisher of the Year, while Nintendo EPD was Studio of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/arms\"><strong>ARMS<\/strong><\/a> won Best Visual Design and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0scooped the Best Audio Design award, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a> being a runner-up in the latter category.<\/p>\n<p>All of which rounds off a pretty spectacular 2017 for Nintendo, we&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print media may be a shadow of its former self but in the UK, one publication continues to earn the respect of gamers and developers &#8211; and that&#8217;s EDGE.\u00a0 The magazine has been around since the early &#8217;90s and regularly runs yearly awards to celebrate the best games, hardware and developers of the past 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}