TweakTown Awards

TweakTown awards recognize products, games, and movies that stand out for their performance, quality, value, features, design, and overall impact.

Our awards are editorial decisions based on the full product experience. As a general editorial rule, a product will usually need to score an overall rating of 85% or higher before it is considered for an award, although exceptional cases may still be judged on their merits.

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Licensing Terms

In some cases, after publication, third parties may choose to license TweakTown award badges or editorial quotes for use in marketing or promotional materials through our exclusive licensing partner, Wright's Media. Any such licensing is strictly post-publication and has no influence on the review, score, award decision, or editorial outcome. For licensing of TweakTown awards and editorial quotes, please contact our exclusive agent Wright's Media at [email protected].

Our Editor's Choice Gold Award is reserved for products that stand out as the best all-round offerings in their category. These products have few or no weaknesses and deliver an exceptional combination of performance, quality, features, design, and overall user experience.

Our Recommended Silver Award is given to products or services that perform strongly across the areas that matter most in their category. They may fall just short of Editor's Choice, but they still deliver a level of quality and performance we are confident recommending.

Our Best Quality Award is given to products that impress with exceptional build quality, design execution, finish, reliability, or overall refinement.

Our Best Features Award is given to products that offer a standout feature set or meaningful functionality that clearly sets them apart from the competition.

Our Best Overclocking Award is reserved for products that deliver outstanding overclocking potential and are clearly among the strongest performers in their class for enthusiasts who want to push hardware further.

Our Best Performance Award is reserved for products that deliver class-leading performance in the workloads or use cases that matter most for their category.

Our Best Value Award is given to products or services that deliver an outstanding balance of performance, features, and quality relative to their price.

Our Recommended Game Award is given to games that stand out for their overall quality and are easy to recommend based on factors such as gameplay, presentation, polish, technical execution, and overall enjoyment.

Our Recommended Movie Award is given to movies that stand out for their overall quality and entertainment value, and are well worth recommending to our readers.