AMD Athlon
Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router
Microsoft Force-Feedback 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer Optical Mouse
NVIDIA GeForce 2
NVIDIA MX Chipset
Plantronics Headset

The Winners

Second Runners-up (tie):  Plantronics Headset, AMD Athlon
First Runner-up:  Microsoft Force-Feedback 2
Hardware of the Year:  Microsoft Internet Explorer Optical Mouse

Comments:  Look ma, no balls!  The Microsoft Optical Mouse forever solves the problem of...er...sticky balls.  In addition, it allows you to indulge in a bit of irony, using the cat as a mouse pad.

Atomic Games	(Close Combat - Invasion Normandy)
Black Isle	(Icewind Dale  Baldur's Gate II)
Blizzard	(Diablo II)
BoKu Strategy Games	(Horse & Musket,  Combat Command 2)
Big Time Software	(Combat Mission)
eSim Games	(Steel Beasts)
Impressions Games	(Zeus - Master of Olympus)
Ion Storm	(Deus Ex)
John Tiller	(Panzer Campaigns - Normandy '44, Panzer Campaigns - Kharkov '42, Campaign 1776)
Malfador Mechanations	(Space Empires IV)
Paradox Entertainment	(Europa Universalis)
The Creative Assembly	(Shogun - Total War)
Valve Software	(Half-Life: Firearms)

The Winners

First Runners-up (tie):  BoKu Strategy Games, John Tiller
Developer of the Year:  Big Time Software

Comments: Another runaway victory for BTS and Combat Mission.  Our voters also appreciated the proclivity of BoKu Strategy Games (Horse & Musket, Combat Command 2) and John Tiller (Panzer Campaigns - Normandy '44, Panzer Campaigns - Kharkov '42, Campaign 1776) 

Eidos Interactive
Electronic Arts
HPS Simulations
Microsoft
Shrapnel Games
Sierra Studios

The Winners

Second Runners-up (tie):  Microsoft, Sierra Studios
First Runner-up: HPS Simulations
Publisher of the Year:  Shrapnel Games

Comments:  Tim Brooks and his staff at Shrapnel should be proud.  Thanks to an impressive line of games in the year 2000, Shrapnel has brought us more of the kind of games we like to play than anyone else, and this has resulted in a landslide victory in this category.  HPS has done well on the coattails of John Tiller and their excellent staff.  Along with Battlefront, these three companies are proving the direct distribution model.  Microsoft and Sierra indicate there is still some room in our lives for titles easily found at local Walmart.