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Up All Night Presents Best of E3 Award

Up All Night Gaming, the premier source for PC and online gaming news and resources, presented its "Members Choice" award for "Best of E3 2005" to "City of Villains", released by Cryptic Studios. The award was presented during the recent "Wizard World Philadelphia 2005" convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center to Jack `Statesman` Emmert, Cryptic Studios Creative Director and CoH Lead Designer.

Cryptic Studios is located in Los Gatos, California, was established in July of 2000. It is an independent developer of massively multiplayer online games for the PC and next generation consoles. Its first game, City of Heroes, was launched in April 2004.

Commenting on the awards, James Skamarakas, Founder and Editor In Chief added of Cryptic, said "Once again consumers honor the best of the best. This year competition was extremely high amongst the several major titles and expansions and winning is significant since over 2,000 members where invited to vote. Unlike any other award program that has gone before, ours recognizes a companys achievement in developing a product that the adult gamer wants to purchase and play. For Cryptic Studios and NCSoft this will be a great award the quantity of the votes from their customers was exceptional and this is why they won the award. It goes without saying that every product highlighted at E3 this year deserves credit for their work and commitment to quality entertainment products."