One 4 U Game Developer Choice Award: Nominierungen 2015

Die Nominierungen für den Game Developers Choice Award 2015 stehen nun fest. Der Preis wird im Rahmen der Game Developers Conference am 04. März 2015 vergeben. Als grosser Favorit gilt Mittelerde: Mordors Schatten, der allein für fünf Auszeichnungen nominiert wurde.

Hier die Nominierten:

Game of the Year

• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Honorable Mentions: Titanfall, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Innovation Award

• Bounden (Game Oven)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
• Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Honorable Mentions: Crypt of the Necrodancer, Extrasolar, Elite: Dangerous, Elegy For A Dead World, 80 Days

Best Debut

• Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
• Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
• The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
• Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
• Upper One Games (Never Alone)

Honorable Mentions: Dynamighty (CounterSpy), Hinterland Games (The Long Dark), 1337 & Senri (Leo's Fortune), MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)

Best Design

• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)

Honorable Mentions: Mario Kart 8, Alien: Isolation, Destiny, Monument Valley, Far Cry 4

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Threes!
• Super Smash Bros. 3DS
• Hearthstone
• 80 Days
• Monument Valley

Honorable Mentions: Bounden, Bravely Default, Desert Golfing, Velocity 2X, Fantasy Life

Best Visual Art

• Hohokum (Honeyslug and Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
• Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Honorable Mentions: Never Alone, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Transistor, Broken Age: Act 1, Destiny

Best Narrative

• 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 , D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, Hatoful Boyfriend

Best Audio

• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
• Hohokum (Honeyslug/Sony)
• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Transistor (Supergiant Games)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Child of Light, Far Cry 4, D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, Bayonetta 2, Crypt of the Necrodancer

Best Technology

• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order (MachineGames/Bethesda)
• Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
• Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Honorable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Unity, The Last of Us: Remastered, Sunset Overdrive, Alien: Isolation , Infamous: Second Son

Desweiteren gibts es noch drei spezielle Awards: the Pioneer, Ambassador and Lifetime Achievement awards.Den Leser Award gibts es auch, dafür findet im Februar die entsprechende Umfrage statt.

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