With all the videogames that are released each and every month, it can be quite a difficult task to decide which title to spend your hard-earned money on. Granted you could go by our review scores alone and weed through the long list of names to find something that scored high or low, but what if you had somewhere else to turn?

Rather than wait until the end of the year like for our big award blowout, your incredibly masculine friends at IGN.com have decided to employ a monthly tribute to the weeks that were. We're resolved to illustrate to our readers what we thought was the very best game for each system over the past month, and tell you the reason why.

While some of us often chime in with our comments at the end of reviews, for the most part, the reviews on IGN are primarily written by one editor; in this feature we get all of the editors on a particular channel to vote for our Game of the Month. What better way to represent your channel than to speak your mind all at once?

How does it work? Simple. Any game released in the past month is eligible for the award and is taken through a battery of tests by every editor on that particular channel. After we've finished evaluating each game that comes down the pipeline, we put our heads together and decide on a single "best of" winner that's worthy of the title "IGN Game of the Month". Pretty straightforward, don't you think?

Now that we have the guidelines out of the way, let's move on and congratulate this month's winner...

Why We Picked It::

For starters, there wasn't a great deal of competition. Still, while not quite a great game, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon proved to be a smart port to Wii, retaining the 3D fight mechanics that helped the title score well on the other systems and adding fresh new Wii controls. Believe it or not, the new Wiimote and nunchuk gameplay system feels good when it's working -- the downside is that it doesn't always respond as well as we'd like it to. Gamers can alternatively utilize the classic or GameCube controllers, both of which function perfectly. With nearly 65 fighters, dynamic environments, several gameplay modes (including Konquest and Motor Kombat), and a fun multiplayer mode, Armageddon is Wii's best fighter to date and it edges out all competitors for May's Wii Game of the Month.

Runner Up: None we care to mention.