Turns out, Shoe has gotten together a bunch of former EGM dudes and dudettes--none who were with the magazine as recently as yesterday, though--to put their own 2008 awards piece together. The feature's been going up in segments since the end of last year (i.e. for the last week), featuring such names as Shoe and Crispin Boyer (the blog's proprietors), What They Play's John Davison, 8-4's John Ricciardi, Capcom's Kraig Kujawa (he of the Age of Booty pile-of-rum challenge), and none other than international man of mystery Joe Fielder.
I won't take a lot of space listing out people's choices for best, worst, and most overlooked games of the year; you can head over there if you want to get another set of '08 picks from some (likely) familiar faces.
On a sort-of-related note, if your ire is really up over yesterday's developments, there's always this.
Note: We don't necessarily agree with the sentiments expressed in this video, but we sure did marvel at such unbridled, uh, enthusiasm.