I’m happy to say I was part of the decision-making in naming 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks’ Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as DigNews.com’s first-ever Game of the Year winner. Our site’s never named a game of the year before, and there’s no guarantee we will again, but Oblivion is a game that’s made a huge next-gen impact.

There’s a lot of freedom in the game to do whatever you want to, from farming to setting up a retail business to – probably – printing up professional business cards for your fellow adventurers. Well, maybe not quite, but you get the idea.

It’s a game that has turned a lot of people who don’t normally play videogames into addicts. That’s rare, and that’s why we game this first-of-its-kind honor to the game. What fun!