WIRED: 12 Game of the Year awards

WIRED is a print magazine from United States, founded in 1993. It appears in this database with 12 Game of the Year picks across 12 award seasons (2006–2017); its most frequent pick was Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 3 of its 12 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in 2017.

WIRED explicitly named a singular Game of the Year in its 2017 package; the other requested years yielded only non-qualifying best-games coverage or no verified singular overall pick.

What "2006–2017" means.

It is the first and last year this outlet appears in our award data — not necessarily its founding or closing date. An outlet may have existed longer, or simply skipped a year's award.

Every Game of the Year it picked

Year	Game of the Year	Vote type
2017	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	Editorial
2016	Overwatch	Editorial
2015	Super Mario Maker	Editorial
2014	Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft	Editorial
2013	Papers, Please	Editorial
2012	The Walking Dead: The Game	Editorial
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial
2010	StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty	Editorial
2009	Left 4 Dead 2	Editorial
2008	LittleBigPlanet	Editorial
2007	Rock Band	Editorial
2006	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	Editorial

References

Primary sources cited while researching this outlet's award history.

1.https://www.wired.com/story/games-of-the-year-2017/

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.