In case you hadn't noticed the Game Developer's Conference went on this week. You should check it out, we've been talking about it. For the past ten years at GDC they've been handing out awards as part of the Game Developer's Choice Awards. The winners are in for this year and it looks like Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has done the best, pulling in five awards including Best Writing and the Game of the Year award. Nice to see the the developers got it right like we did.
Other big winners for the night were Runic Games' Torchlight, which brought home the prize for Best Debut Game; Batman: Arkham Asylum by Rocksteady Studios', which got the Best Design award; 5th Cell's Scribblenauts, which got the Innovation Award; thatgamecompany's Flower, which received Best Downloadable Game; Zynga's Farmville, which won the first ever Best New Social/Online Game award.
All of those seem pretty deserving in my opinion and I struggle to come up with some other options. However, I cannot agree with their choice with Best Handheld Game, which went to the aforementioned Scribblenauts. Innovative? Yes. Best handheld game of the year? Far from it. There's a difference between trying something new and making the best handheld game of the year. In my opinion this ranks somewhere up there with Shakespeare in Love taking the Oscar over Saving Private Ryan.
Also given out were a few special awards. John Carmack got a Lifetime Achievement award for being John Carmack. Gabe Newell received the Pioneer Award "for his work in co-creating PC key digital download service Steam, and helping to make possible some of the most important video games of recent years," and the Penny Arcade guys received the Ambassador Award for being awesome.
Full list of prizes and winners after the jump.
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Game of the Year
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Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
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Best Game Design:
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Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
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Best Writing:
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Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
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Best Debut Game:
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Torchlight (Runic Games)
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Best Technology:
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Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
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Best Handheld Game:
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Scribblenauts (5th Cell)
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Best Visual Arts:
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Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
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Innovation Award:
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Scribblenauts (5th Cell)
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Best Audio:
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Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
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Best Downloadable Game:
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Flower (thatgamecompany)
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Recipients for the evening's special awards were:
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Lifetime Achievement Award
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John Carmack
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Pioneer Award
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Gabe Newell
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Ambassador Award
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Penny Arcade (Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Robert Khoo)
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Contest:
9:00 AM on 03.14.2010
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Went on, not want on...
Ortography, it's your friend...
I can hold the disk in my hand, fuckers! This shit was rigged!
Also, whose opinions are the ones that count when deciding these awards?
I can hold the disk in my hand, fuckers! This shit was rigged!"
QFT!
No idea why people think it's the Holy Grail of video games, it's a great game.. but I guess I just missed the part of the game where it cuddled me in its arms and told me it'll be OK.. and then finished me off with a quick BJ.
But it was fun to both play and watch, and that's all that really matters.
I fucking laughed so hard at that, thank you.
I dunno about you guys but my copy actually did hold me in it's arms reassuring me I'd be okay before tucking me into bed and saying goodnight. If only I could get that BJ in the form of being halfway good at it's Multiplayer.
And aroused.
Goddammit.
The whole package reeked of a quality Batman game.
Did you mean "orthography?"
@Wyrmling
You can watch both awards show over on Gamespot.
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