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Of the 3,365 outlets that ever handed out a Game of the Year award here, 1,904 did it exactly once and were never tracked again — 57% of the voting press is a single season long. Only 213 have voted across a decade or more, and 12 have been at it for twenty years or longer.
Outlets grouped by the season they first appear in, against how many were still voting in the last two tracked seasons. The 2000s cohort has almost entirely gone: of 453 outlets whose first tracked season falls in the 2000s, 45 still vote.
| First tracked season | Outlets | Still voting | Survival |
|---|---|---|---|
| before 2000 | 7 | 5 | 71.4% |
| 2000–2009 | 453 | 45 | 9.9% |
| 2010–2019 | 1,748 | 154 | 8.8% |
| 2020– | 1,157 | 704 | 60.8% |
Outlets that first appear in the 2020s look far healthier, but that is arithmetic, not vitality: an outlet whose first season was 2024 has had no chance to disappear yet. The honest comparison is between the two older cohorts — and those are close to each other.
Twenty years or more of Game of the Year picks, without a gap long enough to drop out of the record. Two of them — the Game Developers Choice Awards and the D.I.C.E. Awards — appear in the very first season this database covers and in the most recent one.
| Outlet | Country | Years active | Awards | Span |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Famitsu | Japan | 36 | 25 | 1990–2025 |
| Golden Joystick Awards | United Kingdom | 35 | 40 | 1991–2025 |
| GameSpot | United States | 30 | 26 | 1996–2025 |
| D.I.C.E. Awards | United States | 29 | 32 | 1997–2025 |
| Japan Game Awards | Japan | 28 | 5 | 1996–2023 |
| Edge | United Kingdom | 27 | 23 | 1998–2024 |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | United States | 26 | 35 | 2000–2025 |
| Game Informer | United States | 26 | 28 | 2000–2025 |
| Eurogamer | United Kingdom | 26 | 24 | 2000–2025 |
| IGN | United States | 25 | 31 | 2001–2025 |
| FZ | Sweden | 23 | 30 | 2003–2025 |
| BAFTA Games Awards | United Kingdom | 23 | 27 | 2003–2025 |
This is the reason every total on this site is a documented minimum rather than a census. The panel is not a stable jury that grows: it is a revolving door, with a small permanent core and a large, shifting edge. A game from 2025 is judged by a mostly different press than a game from 2010 — which is why cross-season comparisons belong to award share, not raw totals, and why an outlet vanishing is not the same as an outlet voting differently.
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