{"id":548,"date":"2007-01-29T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/29\/aias-nominations\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:17:35","slug":"aias-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/29\/aias-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"AIAS Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/6164525.html\">has announced the nominees<\/a> for its annual awards. In an industry that for some reason craves a definitive award show like the Oscars or Emmys, this is the best we have, so long as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2007\/01\/28\/capcom-snubbed-by-aias-awards\/\">you pay the dues to belong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only PC game in the Best of Year category is <em>Oblivion<\/em>, and it&#8217;s dual platform. <em>Age of Empires: The Warchiefs<\/em> is nominated for Computer Game of the Year, but not Strategy Game of the Year. <em>Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads<\/em> got a nomination for Simulation of the Year. The strategy nominees are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Company of Heroes<br \/>\nStar Wars: Empire at War<br \/>\nBattle for Middle-earth II<br \/>\nRise of Legends<br \/>\nMedieval II: Total War<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The winners will be announced at DICE on February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for its annual awards. In an industry that for some reason craves a definitive award show like the Oscars or Emmys, this is the best we have, so long as you pay the dues to belong. The only PC game in the Best of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-8Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}