I don’t know why, but BioWare’s excellent Mass Effect was good enough to receive four nominations in this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, it was not, apparently, good enough for a Game of the Year nod.

Shocking, says I, and bordering on insulting.

Read more in this week’s “Trigger Happy” column over in the Georgia Straight.

And while you’re there, read my review of The Orange Box, which includes Portal, one of the best games of 2007.