SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2004-- After three days of almost nonstop reporting last week at the 10th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), GameSpot, the most highly trafficked games content site on the Web, and a property of CNET Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq:CNET), today announced the winners of its 8th annual "Best of E3" Awards. The more than 20 award categories recognize the most impressive and most anticipated games out of the 600+ that were on display at E3.

2.9 million gamers visited GameSpot during E3 -- more than any other games content site or network, spending nearly 1 million hours total online on GameSpot. GameSpot editors posted approximately 1,300 movies, 12,000 screen shots, and 1,000 reports during E3. GameSpot also served more than 1 million on-demand video streams a day during the show and covered about 650 different products -- roughly 98 percent of all games shown at E3.

"Due to the exceptional efforts and experience of our entire product team, no other games information source matched the quality, depth, and breadth of GameSpot's E3 coverage -- online or offline," commented Ankarino Lara, director of GameSpot. "Our editors are just as passionate about the games of E3 as our users, and our coverage reflects that passion. The winners of our E3 awards represent the most promising and innovative new games our industry has to offer."

And the Winners Are...

• Best Game of the Show: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3 (Ubisoft - PC)

• Best PC Game: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3 (Ubisoft)

• Best Xbox Game: MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf (Microsoft)

• Best PS2 Game: God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment of America)

• Best GameCube Game: Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)

• Best Game Boy Advance Game: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Nintendo)

• Best N-Gage Game: Pathway to Glory (Nokia)

• Best Mobile Game: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (Gameloft)

To read more about the selected games and check out other E3 GameSpot award winners and finalists, please visit GameSpot.com on Saturday, May 24th at 3:30PM, when the official announcement will run. In June GameSpot will offer its "GameSpot to Go-E3" DVD which includes booth tours, press conferences, exclusive developer interviews, actual game play video from more than 150 new games featured at E3.

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