Under Consideration Site spotlight

Once a site wins such a prestigious award it could go on their site page, as a giant gold star or something ;p I do really like the idea of an interview to go with it, which the award could then forever link too. I also second the every 3 months idea, one per season.

Criteria wise... age, organization/navigation, originality, story line?

 

Popular vote is always sketchy at best for results like this. It would automatically undervalue a low-population game and favor high population games that can muster more voters.

A small group selecting the games also has inherent problems (They'll be more naturally drawn to their own areas of the RPG world) but I see that as more fair a way (particularly if it's billed as an awards style thing I have little problem with the natural biases that happen within people.).

I wouldn't mind seeing an annual thing in which something is picked from each category in the browse (or maybe the browse, plus certain selected high-volume fandoms being judged independently to give some of the more unique non-fandom/small fandom games better chances).