At the packed Games Media Awards ceremony in Camden's Jongleurs club last night, The Guardian won best newspaper games coverage for the third year running. We beat The Sun, the Telegraph, The Mirror, the Daily Star Sunday and the Independent to the hard-won gong, although Gamesblog lost out in the specialist blogging category to news site, VG247.com. I carried around the hefty Perspex award for most of the night until Technology production editor Stuart O'Connor successfully wrestled it from my grasp.

Other winners included Edge for best games magazine, Eurogamer for best website, Shortlist for best mainstream magazine coverage and One Life Left for best games broadcast.

We're genuinely delighted to win for newspaper coverage again – I now just have to get through a day's work on two hours sleep and a head that feels as though someone has sucked my brains out with a bicycle pump and replaced them with wet cement.