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title: "Tuesday, June 18, 2002"
date: 2002-06-18T13:00:00-07:00
author: Tim Schafer
canonical_url: "https://www.doublefine.com/news/tuesday-june-18-2002"
section: News
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# Tuesday, June 18, 2002

June 18th 2002

Drum roll please…

![An image from the Double Fine archive.](//assets.doublefine.com/archive/images/smallE3AwardRAZ.jpg)

## Best Original Game: PSYCHONAUTS!!!

Holy moley, we won! The incredibly foxy and popular judges of the Game Critics Awards have named Psychonauts **Best Original Game of E3!** What an honor! And how incredibly terrifying. If we won this in 2002, then we are going to have to be totally, incredibly amazing at E3 2003! I was just going to spend most of the year napping, and then hack together something at the last minute, but I see now that people are watching. There goes my summer! Well, this is still very exciting. I’m so excited, I’m going to go down stairs and hug the team. I usually distribute free hugs around this time of day anyway, but as a special reward, today I’m going to wear a shirt. Go team!

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## Tags

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## Associated games

[Psychonauts](https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts "Psychonauts")

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