Day three of the Talking About Games Writers Choice Awards is here. Yesterday we saw Bulletstorm and Portal 2 win awards for Best New IP and Best Sequel, decided that Mario is still king with its win in the Best Handheld Game category and saw the little metal orb Wheatley win Best New Character.

Today, we take a slight tonal shift by looking at the Biggest Disappointment and Worst Game of the Year. In addition, we will sit down and tell you a tale of what the Best Storytelling of 2011 was. Finally, in a year that saw a ton of old games being brought back from the grave, we are going to look at which game had the Best Franchise Re-Launch.

Hit the jump for all of today’s winners.

Every year since the PS3’s launch in 2006 has been hailed as the Year of the Playstation. Every year was supposed to be the year that Sony would catch up to Microsoft and Nintendo in the sales department. And every year, it didn’t happen. When people looked ahead to 2011 though, it actually seemed like this WAS going to be The Year of the Playstation. Sony had an enormous amount of exclusives set to release: Little Big Planet 2, Socom 4, Killzone 3, Infamous 2, Resistance 3 and Uncharted 3. What could go wrong? Well, it seems having your online service hacked might mess things up a bit. During the month that PSN was on shutdown, buyers of Socom 4 and Killzone 3 couldn’t play online. The recently released Mortal Kombat and Portal 2, which both had PS3 exclusive features, were now way more likely to be bought on competing consoles. Mix in lukewarm reactions to the rest of Sony’s exclusive lineup (even Uncharted 3 being seen to many as a disappointment) and you have another failed attempt at The Year of the Playstation. - Gustavo Ramirez

Trapped in a facility miles underground, forced to act as a test subject and risk your life and limb for the amusement of a demeaning mechanical overlord, with only the companionship of a small robot with a British accent -- add “in 3D” and you might as well be talking about the latest summer blockbuster movie poised to make $30 million next weekend. The fact that all of that is something said of a video game which, at its core, is nothing but a mind-bending puzzler, makes it all the more amazing. Often a developer will find one single hook, something that will capture the player and keep them coming back. Only rarely is such attention paid to what gamers could just have easily done without. - Patrick Cassin

Okabu, Brink and Duke Nukem Forever were all easily in the running for our worst game of 2011. Okabu was completely broken, Brink was a massive failure and Duke Nukem was completely mediocre. However, BloodRayne Betrayal wins this category for a few simple reasons. The game expected you to be exact in your jumping and in combat; however the controls were far too loose and floaty to be any good. The story was bland and while the art style was beautiful, there was simply no meaningful content to back it up. Say what you want about Duke Nukem Forever, but at least it didn't completely kill off any hope for a sequel. That's more than I can say for BloodRayne Betrayal. - Addam Kearney

When Street Fighter IV revitalized the fighting genre in 2009, it did it by going back to classic gameplay. Two years later we see another fighting franchise take the same approach with perhaps even more success. It isn’t a secret that Mortal Kombat games of late have been poor but this re-launch has become perhaps the best in the series. A return simple to grasp controls and great combo-based gameplay left behind the problems of recent games in the series. It also didn’t hurt that the series got back to the gore and violence it’s known for. Mortal Kombat also changed fighting games by introducing a great story-driven single player to offer something for fans who have no interest in competitive fighting. - Kyle Orr