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Following on from the Independent Games Festival Awards on Wednesday evening last week, the ceremony rolled right into the prestigious Game Developers Choice Awards, an event that aims to recognise the very best accomplishments in the world of videogames.
The games chosen to receive an award at the Game Developers Choice Awards (and development teams behind these titles) this year included Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar, Minecraft from Mojang (continuing its winning ways from the IGF Awards), Mass Effect 2 and Limbo – but only one game could be crowned ‘Game of the Year’…
The full list of winners at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards is as follows:
At this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, not only will a batch of games and development studios receive awards to recognise their contributions to the medium of videogames and interactive entertainment, but an absolute veteran and luminary of the craft will receive the highest honour his peers could attempt to bestow upon him.
During the 11th annual Game Developers Choice Award, none other than Peter Molyneux will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, following in the footsteps of similarly legendary recipients including John Carmack, Sid Meier, Hideo Kojima, Richard Garriott and Shigeru Miyamoto.
The 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards will take place on March 2nd this year during the 2011 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and over the course of the awards ceremony dozens of games and thousands of game developers will be recognised for their work on the very best videogames of 2010.
What makes the Game Developers Choice Awards special is that it’s a peer-based industry ceremony, and has for years been known as an event ‘by developers, for developers.’ If your work is recognised with an award, you can be sure of your accomplishment!
[Update] You can now watch the entire awards ceremony below [End of Update]
Last night the world’s best videogames and game developers were honoured with a shower of awards at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, held during the Game Developers Conference every year, the only official awards ceremony created for developers and voted on by developers.
This year’s big winner was Uncharted 2, which walked away with a total of five nods, while id Software co-founder and Technical Director John Carmack was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Event director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of the awards process this year:
Videogame industry legend, programming technology guru and id Software (DOOM, Quake) co-founder John Carmack is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Game Developers Choice Awards for his outstanding contributions to the art and science of games, following in the footsteps of prolific industry stars Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima and Richard Garriott.
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises “the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development,” and with Carmack’s more than two decade history of making games, working on breakthrough technology and his contributions to popularising the first-person shooter genre with titles such as Wolfenstein, DOOM and Quake, as well as his efforts in continually pushing the bounds of graphics technology, you could say he’s made an “indelible impact” on game development.
Event Director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of Carmack and the award:
The full list of nominees for this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards has been announced, comprising multiple nominations for Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Flower, Dragon Age: Origins, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Plants VS Zombies.
The Game Developers Choice Awards is the leading peer-based videogame industry awards and is now in its tenth year running. Nominees for the awards (which aren’t restricted or considered on payment) are chosen by “a combination of open game industry nominations and the votes of the leading creators in the Choice Awards Advisory Committee.”
Winners are selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards-specific International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), which is a “new invitation-only group comprised of 500 leading game creators from all parts of the video game industry.”
The full list of nominees for this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards follows below:
It’s been announced that, at this year’s Game Developers Conference, the creator of the Metal Gear series, Hideo Kojima, will received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards.
Kojima, who is to make his debut GDC appearance as well as deliver the 2009 GDC keynote address, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his career and achievements over the last twenty years of his time in the industry, and his contributions to the growth of game development. Event director of the Game Developers Conference, Meggan Scavio said:
“For years, Hideo Kojima’s contributions to game development have broken new ground and inspired the community to think about creating games in never-before-imagined ways.
“From giving birth to the stealth action game genre to showing game makers how to interact with their players by breaking the ‘fourth wall,’ Kojima’s achievements make him an obvious choice for an award that in previous years has gone to luminaries including Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Richard Garriott, Eugene Jarvis, Mark Cerny, Gunpei Yokoi, Yuji Naka and Will Wright.”
The 2009 Game Developers Conference will run from March 23rd to March 27th at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
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