Complex sentence: As of 2006, there have been eighteen annual awards featured in what is usually the March issue of the following year, the first awards having taken place in 1989, honoring games released in 1988.
Split into simpler sentences: As of 2006, there have been eighteen annual awards featured in what is usually the March issue of the following year. The first awards were awarded in 1989, honoring games released in 1988.