After tallying all of the votes for the platform-specific Game of the Year awards I want through and looked for the one with the highest vote, the one that was, essentially, awarded the most points out of all of the games. The thing is, it turned out that three games tied for Game of the Year:

The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass - DS
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - Playstation 3
Super Mario Galaxy - Wii

The only way to decide the three-way draw, I decided, was to repoll all of the writers and have them vote on these three finalists to select the winner. HIt the jump to see who Team Kotaku picked as the year's Overall Game of the Year and which won the almost as coveted as the NQGOTY.

I was surprised to see that neither games for the PC nor the Xbox 360 made the cut, but when I went back to look I found that the writers were pretty divided on their votes in both of those categories, meaning there wasn't an overwhelming push for any one game.

Our first-ever Game of the Year awards was a pretty straight forward deal. I asked all of the writers to submit a list of three games for each category and the three that showed up most in each category made it as a finalist. Once we had the list of finalists I asked each writer to go through and order the finalists and then tallied the vote. The one with the most points was named Game of the Year, the runner-up was named Not Quite Game of the Year. The game with the most votes for Worst Game of the Year received that dubious honor.

Hit the jump for the final results and lovely medallions which no one will receive. Check back later tonight for the Overall Game of the Year, drawn from the winners of each category.

Kotaku's 2007 Games of the Year

DS

NQGOTY: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
WGOTY: Spiderman: Friend or Foe

PC

NQGOTY: Crysis
WGOTY: Soldier of Fortune: Payback

Playstation 2

NQGOTY: God of War II
WGOTY: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Playstation 3

NQGOTY: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
WGOTY: Lair

Playstation Portable

NQGOTY: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
WGOTY:Pimp My Ride

Wii

NQGOTY: Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
WGOTY: Cruis'n

Xbox 360

NQGOTY: The Orange Box
WGOTY: Vampire Rain

PSN

NQGOTY: flow

XBLA

NQGOTY: Undertow