Press Release

September 19, 2013

The Grand Award for the “Games of the Year Division”“Animal Crossing: New Leaf”(Nintendo Co., Ltd.)

Highly-talked about titles were selected for each award!
“PUZZLE&DRAGONS” received the Special Award!
Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA; Chairman: Shin Unozawa) held the award
ceremony for the Japan Game Awards “Games of the Year Division” at the Event Stage in TOKYOGAME SHOW 2013 (Venue: Makuhari Messe, Hall 8) today to announce and honor the award winners.
Out of nominated tiles representing the past year, “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” (Nintendo Co., Ltd.)was selected for this year’s Grand Award.
The Japan Game Awards 2013 “Games of the Year Division”, which welcomes 17th year, nominated over
1,300 titles (*1) which were released in Japan from April 1, 2012 to March 31,2013 and selected the GrandAward, the Award of Excellence, the Best Sales Award, the Global Award and the Special Award,
respectively, based on the general public’s votes between April 8 and July 19, 2013 and the review by theJapan Game Awards Selection Committee. The following is the list of winning titles.
(*1) Any platform (such as family game console, mobile game device, PC, cellular phone) is acceptable.

[Japan Game Awards 2013 “Games of the Year Division” Award Winners](Alphabetical order in “Award for excellence”)

AwardsTitle

Platform

Company

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

3DS

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

3DS

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

BIOHAZARD 6

PS3 / XB360 / PC

CAPCOM co., LTD

BRAVELY DEFAULT FLYING FAIRY3DS

SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.

DRAGON QUEST X ONLINE

Wii / Wii U / PC

SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.

FANTSY LIFE

3DS

LEVEL-5 Inc.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

3DS

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

New Super Mario Bros. UWii UNintendo Co., Ltd.

PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2PS Vita / PC

SEGA Corporation

Pokémon Black Version 2 andPokémon White Version 2DS

The Pokémon Company

SOUL SACRIFICEPS Vita

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

SUPER DANGANRONPA 2PSP

SPIKE CHUNSOFT Co., Ltd.

PUZZLE&DRAGONSiOS
Android OS
Kindle Fire

GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.

Best Sales Award

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

3DS

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Global Award

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

PS3 / XB360
Wii U / PC

Activision / Treyarch

Grand Award

Award forexcellence

Special Award※PS3: PlayStation®3 / PSP: PSP®（PlayStation®Portable） / PS Vita: PlayStation®Vita / DS: Nintendo DS, DS Lite、DSi、DSi and LL /3DS: Nintendo 3DS and 3DS LL / XB360: Xbox 360® / PC: Windows®

[About the Grand Award]“Animal Crossing: New Leaf” It was selected for the Grand Award for this year’s Games of the Year
Division, as many users, regardless the generation, showed their support for its game system whereplayers can enjoy freely at their own pace, abundant speedy play-through elements, and funinteraction with other players via the communication function.

[Highly talked-about titles swept the Award of Excellence! “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” also
received the Best Sales Award!]
Popular series such as “DRAGON QUEST” and “BIOHAZARD” as well as new titles such as“SOUL SACRIFICE” and “FANTSY LIFE” were selected for this year’s Award of Excellence.
Also, “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” won the Best Sales Award, the second award for the title alongwith the Grand Award for the Games of the Year Division. This title has sold 38 million units in Japanby March 2013 and its global total sales have reached 54 million units as of June.
[Internationally renowned title “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” received the “Global Award”]“Call of Duty: Black Ops II” This tile received the overwhelming support by users in the overseas
market and was selected for this year’s Global Award.
[The Special Award went to “PUZZLE&DRAGONS”]
The Special Award, selected by recommendation of the Selection Committee, went to“PUZZLE&DRAGONS”. This smartphone-compatible game has brought out a social movement andtaken Japan by storm with a nickname of “Pazudora.” It has established the smartphone as a gameplatform and expanded the game user base, which led to winning of the award.
We hope to continue communicating the enjoyment and wonder of computer entertainment to as manypeople as possible through the Japan Game Awards, and contribute to the further development of thegame industry in Japan.

For further information such as the selection reasons for winning titles for each award, recipients’ official
comments, titles that received awards last year, please visit the Japan Game Awards official website:
http://awards.cesa.or.jp/en/

Pictures of the award ceremony are available for download at:https://www.filey.jp/tgs/(The press ID and password are required to log in. ID: tgs_press, password: press_tgs)

Materials such as the Japan Game Awards logo and design data for each award are available fordownload at:
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