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Spike Video Game Awards 2013 Winners- Our Choice

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VGX, the next generation of Video Game Awards, is an all-day gaming experience, and a true binging dream for gamers.



While its roots lie in the Video Game Awards, VGX will abandon the traditional Hollywood style award show to feature more world premiere game trailers than ever before, plus extended deep dives into the next generation of games, new looks at gaming culture, one-on-one interviews with the industry’s most visionary creatives and expert panels digging into what’s coming to consoles in 2014 and beyond. The new format features more games, less fame, in an intimate studio setting.



VGX Nominees are determined by the VGX Advisory Council, which is made up of a group of some of the most well-respected video game journalists from media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, Game Informer, Joystiq, Kotaku, Polygon, IGN, GameTrailers, Gamespot, Wired.com, USA Today and Associated Press.









VGX will be streamed across Xbox One, Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 (PS3™), Twitch, iOS and Android devices, and available globally on VGXLIVE.com, Hulu, Yahoo Screen, the Yahoo Screen app and Viacom properties Spike.com, ComedyCentral.com MTV.com, MTV2.com, BET.com and GameTrailers.com. VGX will be live streamed for three-hours on Saturday, December 7, beginning at 6:00 PM ET / 3:00 PM PT. Spike TV will also air highlights of the show as "VGX Replay" on Monday, December 9 at midnight.





We will post our choice here, meanwhile, to vote for your favorite video game, please click HERE!


GDC 2012 - Game Developers Choice Awards Video Replay

GDC 2012 - Game Developers Choice Awards Video Replay

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Watch GDC 2012 - Game Developers Choice Awards Video Replay courtesy of Gamespot. From March 5-9, 2012, GDC served as the headquarters for learning, networking and inspiration for the digital games industry.



The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world's largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event.The GDC attracts over 19,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. The GDC is produced by the UBM TechWeb Game Network.






IGF winners for 2012:



Best Student Game:

Way (Carnegie Mellon University, Entertainment Technology Center)



Technical Excellence:

Antichamber (Alexander Bruce)



Excellence in Design:

Spelunky (Mossmouth)



Best Mobile Game:

Beat Sneak Bandit (Simogo)





Excellence in Visual Art:

Dear Esther (thechineseroom)



Excellence in Audio:

Botanicula (Amanita Design)



Audience Award:

Frozen Synapse (Mode 7 Games)



Microsoft XBLA Award

Super T.I.M.E. Force (Capy)



Nuovo Award:

Storyteller (Daniel Benmergui)



Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Fez (Polytron)



Game Developer's Choice 2012 winners



Best Audio:

Portal 2 (Valve)



Best Debut:

Supergiant Games for Bastion



Best Narrative:

Portal 2 (Valve)



Best Visual Arts:

Uncharted 3 (Naughty Dog)



Best Downloadable Game:

Bastion (Supergiant)



Best Game Design

Portal 2 (Valve)



Best Technology

Battlefield 3 (DICE)



Best Mobile Handheld Game

Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery (Superbrothers and Capy)



Innovation Award

Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)



2012 Pioneer Award

Dave Theurer, creator of Missile Command, Tempest and I, Robot



Game of the Year

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda)

2011 Independent Games Festival Winners:

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Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

Minecraft, by Mojang



Nuovo Award:

Nidhogg, by Messhof



Excellence in Visual Arts:

BIT.TRIP RUNNER, by Gaijin Games



Excellence in Audio:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, by Frictional Games



Excellence in Design:

Desktop Dungeons, by QCF Design



Best Student Game:

FRACT, by University of Montreal



Technical Excellence:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, by Frictional Games



Best Mobile Game:

Helsing's Fire, Ratloop



Audience Award:

Minecraft, by Mojang



Direct2Drive Visions Award:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, by Frictional Games



2011 Independent Games Festival Finalists:

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Desktop Dungeons

Minecraft

Nidhogg

SpyParty



Honorable mentions: Neptune's Pride (Iron Helmet Games); Super Crate Box(Vlambeer); Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (Carpe Fulgur); Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games); Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment)



Excellence In Visual Art

Bastion

BIT.TRIP RUNNER

Cave Story (2010 Edition)

The Dream Machine

Hohokum



Honorable mentions: Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment); Cobalt (Oxeye Game Studio); Faraway (Steph Thirion); Helsing's Fire (Ratloop); Flotilla (Blendo Games).



Technical Excellence

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Confetti Carnival

Miegakure

Minecraft

Neverdaunt:8Bit



Honorable mentions: Cobalt (Oxeye Game Studio); Achron (Hazardous Software);Hazard: The Journey Of Life (Demruth); Overgrowth (Wolfire Games); Swimming Under Clouds (Piece Of Pie Studios)



Excellence In Design:

Desktop Dungeons

Faraway

Minecraft

Nidhogg

Super Crate Box



Honorable mentions: Helsing's Fire (Ratloop); Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (Carpe Fulgur); Flotilla (Blendo Games); Bo (Mahdi Bahrami); Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now [B.U.T.T.O.N.] (Copenhagen Game Collective)



Excellence in Audio:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Bastion

BIT.TRIP BEAT

Cobalt

Retro City Rampage



Honorable mentions: Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games); Cave Story (2010 Edition)(Nicalis); Jamestown (Final Form Games); NightSky (Nicalis); Planck (Shadegrown Games)



Best Mobile Game:

Colorbind

Halcyon

Helsing's Fire

Shot Shot Shoot

Solipskier



Honorable mentions: Flick Kick Football (PikPok); Shibuya (Nevercenter); Spirits(Spaces Of Play); Tentacles (Press Play); Trainyard (Matt Rix)



Nuovo Award Finalists:

Bohm

Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now (B.U.T.T.O.N.)

The Cat and the Coup

Dinner Date

Hazard: The Journey Of Life

A House in California

Loop Raccord

Nidhogg



Honorable Mentions: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games); Choice Of Broadsides (Choice Of Games); Faraway (Steph Thirion); Feign (Ian Snyder); Spy Party (Chris Hecker)



Student Showcase Finalists:

e7

FRACT

GLiD

OctoDad

PaperPlane

Solace

Tiny and Big

Toys 


Honorable Mentions: About Love, Hate, and the Other Ones (School of Fine Arts and Design Kassel); EXP (NHTV); Paul and Percy (IT University Copenhagen);Senseless (University of Advancing Technology); StarTwine (Carleton University);Ute (Kunsthochschule Kassel)



source: http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html



The 11th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

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The Game Developers Choice Awards are the premier accolades for peer recognition in the digital games industry. Each year, the Choice Awards recognize and celebrate the creativity, artistry and technical genius of the finest developers and games created in the last year.


The 11th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
Moscone Convention Center, North Hall D

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
6:30 – 8:30 pm





Nominees and Award Recipients

2010 Special Awards Recipients 

These three special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, will be presented at the ceremony.


Lifetime Achievement

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of a developer who has made an indelible impact on the craft of game development and games as a whole.

  • Peter Molyneux



Pioneer Award

The Pioneer Award (formerly known as the First Penguin Award) celebrates those individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture video game history - paving the way for the myriads who followed them.
  • Yu Suzuki



Ambassador Award

The Ambassador Award honors an individual or individuals who have helped the game industry advance to a better place, either through facilitating a better game community from within, or by reaching outside the industry to be an advocate for video games and help further our art.
  • Tim Brengle and Ian MacKenzie



2010 Recipients & Nominees

In addition to the Ambassador, Pioneer and Lifetime Achievement Awards, Choice Awards were given in the following categories below. These particular categories will be both nominated and voted on by the development community.


Game of the Year

The Game of the Year Award recognizes the choice of game developers for the overall best game release during 2010.
  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)

    -Rockstar San Diego Team

  • Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

    -BioWare Mass Effect Team

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)

  • Limbo (Playdead)

    -Arnt Jensen, Dino Patti, Mads Wibroe

  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)

    -Vincent Pontbriand, Patrick Plourde, Jeffrey Yohalem, Mohamed Gambouz, Gaelec Simard, Christopher Weiler



Best Writing

The Best Writing Award recognizes the overall excellence of storytelling in a game - including, but not limited to, art direction, animation, modeling, character design, texture creation, and so on.
  • Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

    -BioWare Mass Effect Team

  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)

    -Rockstar San Diego Team

  • Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)

    -David Cage

  • Costume Quest (Double Fine)

    -Tim Schafer, Elliott Roberts, Tasha Harris, Gabe Miller

  • Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian)

    -John Gonzalez, Eric Fenstermaker, Travis Stout



Best Game Design

The Best Game Design Award recognizes the overall excellence of design in a game - including, but not limited to, gameplay mechanics, playability, play balancing, and level design.
  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)

    -Rockstar San Diego Team

  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)

    -Nintendo EAD Tokyo Team

  • Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

    -BioWare Mass Effect Team

  • Limbo (Playdead)

    -Arnt Jensen

  • God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)

    -Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Adam Puhl



Best Technology

The Best Technology Award recognizes the overall excellence of technology in a game - including, but not limited to, graphics programming, artificial intelligence, networking, and physics.


Best Visual Arts

The Best Visual Arts Award recognizes the overall excellence of visual art in a game - including, but not limited to, art direction, animation, modeling, character design, texture creation, and so on.


Best Debut Game

The Best Debut Game Award recognizes the game from any development studio which released its first publicly available title in the year 2010.


Innovation Award

The Innovation Award recognizes the single game that demonstrates true innovation, advances the state of the art, and pushes the boundaries of games as an expressive medium.


Best Handheld Game

Best Handheld Game Award recognizes the overall best game commercially released on any handheld platform during 2010.


Best Audio

The Best Audio Award recognizes the overall excellence of audio in a game - including, but not limited to, sound effects, musical composition, sound design, orchestration, etc.


Best Downloadable Game

Best Downloadable Game Award recognizes the overall best game released on console or PC platforms specifically and solely for digital download - with an emphasis on smaller, more 'casual'-friendly titles.


Best New Social/Online Game

Since last year's ceremony, the Game Developers Choice Awards added a sister Game Developers Conference Online Awards ceremony focused around the rise of online games, paired with Austin's GDC Online conference last October. Highlights from the show, which crowned Riot Games' League of Legends as Best New Online Game and CCP's EVE Online as Best Live Game, will be shown during the main Choice Awards ceremony.