After nominating 16 games, WorthPlaying staffers agreed upon the top five finalists for the "Best of E3 2013" awards! Read on to see the best games at this year's show!

Need for Speed Rivals, built on the Frostbite 3 game engine, captures the adrenaline and intensity of the street's ultimate rivalry between cops and racers, in an open road environment.

Mickey Mouse is returning to star in Castle of Illusion, a fantastical HD re-imagining of the classic Sega Genesis game.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a cinematic, emotionally charged action game where two sons set out on a journey to find the Water of Life to cure their ailing father and can only rely on one another to survive.

Ridge Racer Driftopia will put the series’ signature drifting right at the heart of the experience in this downloadable free-to-play racing game, supported by with in-game micro transactions.

DuckTales Remastered follows the adventures of Scrooge McDuck as he explores differently themed worlds to collect their treasures and become the world’s richest duck.

A young boy learns that he has amazing powers and is not from this planet. He wants to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. The hero must emerge if he is to save the world and become a symbol of hope.

After much deliberation, WorthPlaying staffers have nominated 16 games for "Best of E3 2013" awards.  Read on to find out which games caught our eye, and check back Friday to read about the five coveted finalists!

Killer Is Dead is a futuristic action game revolving around Execution Office agent Mondo Zappa. Loaded with cybernetic implants you are charged with tracking down and terminating criminal targets, the main antagonist being a cyborg named Victor, who has the ability to manipulate human emotions by using sound.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is a third-person brawler game set in New York City, taking gamers through articulated, true-to-life environments filled with action-packed adventures as Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

Rift: Planes of Telara is a graphically stunning online game is set in a world being torn apart by dimensional "rifts" that tear into the land of Telara, releasing powerful forces that threaten the very existence of the entire universe.

Destiny of Spirits is a free-to-play social experience that integrates strategic fantasy battles with regular PS Vita activity.

Destiny offers unprecedented variety of FPS gameplay, including story, cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes combined with public and social activities.

In Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, gamers play as Mickey Mouse and for the first time ever, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney's first cartoon star, in an adventure of creativity and discovery.

Players can experience the humorous art as they travel to themed planets and asteroids to meet bizarre characters in order to learn about them - and maybe learn a little about themselves along the way.

InFamous: Second Son is the latest installment in the super powered action franchise featuring an all-new protagonist, Delsin Rowe, with all new powers, and set in a new city.

Invizimals: The Alliance is an augmented reality adventure where hunters worldwide can use the power of PS Vita to hunt, battle and collect.

Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom takes you from your living room, straight to the mythical world of the Invizimals.

Starting just after the ending of the original Killzone, and revisiting many of the events from the Killzone trilogy, the game puts players in the rugged combat boots of a mercenary named Arran Danner.

Take control of the Spirit Vessel and battle waves of brutal fighters and colossal enemies to rid the world of the evil force of Malicious. Gain new weapons, build your powers and perform devastating combo attacks as the final showdown between good and evil draws near.

Mercenary Kings is a four-player co-op run-and-gun shooter with a crafting system.

The goal in Open Me! is to open the box and collect the items inside. The boxes are full of traps, so players need to use Vita's augmented reality features to look at the boxes from every angle to get a hint of how to open them.

Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs is a single-player reading/entertainment experience.