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  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Wins Game of the Year at GDC Awards

    The 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and the 2015 Independent Games Festival were held tonight in San Francisco as part of this year’s Game Developers Conference.

    Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor won overall Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards, while Out of Wilds took home the Seumas McNally Grand Prize award at the Independent Games Festival awards.

    The full lists of winners and nominees are below. Did the right games get awarded? Let us know in the comments below!

    15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

    Game of the Year:

    Honorable Mentions: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts) Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)

    Innovation Award:

    Honorable Mentions: Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games), Extrasolar (Lazy 8 Studios), Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments), Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games), 80 Days (Inkle Studios)

    Best Debut:

    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:

    Honorable Mentions: Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Destiny (Bungie/Activision), Monument Valley (Ustwo), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

    Best Handheld/Mobile Game:

    Honorable Mentions: Bounden (Game Oven), Bravely Default (Silicon Studio and Square Enix/Nintendo and Square Enix), Desert Golfing (Blinkbat Games), Velocity 2X (FuturLab), Fantasy Life (Level-5/Nintendo)

    Best Visual Art:

    • Monument Valley (Ustwo)
    • 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 (Upper One Games/E-Line Media), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), Transistor (Supergiant Games), Broken Age: Act 1 (Double Fine Productions), Destiny (Bungie/Activision)

    Best Narrative:

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

    Honorable Mentions: Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft),Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 (Gearbox Software/Telltale Games), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Hatoful Boyfriend (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

    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 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo), Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games)

    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 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), The Last of Us: Remastered (Naughty Dog/Sony), Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony)

    2015 Independent Games Festival Winners

    Excellence in Visual Art

    • Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith)
    • Lumino City (State of Play Games)
    • Else Heart.Break (Niklas Åkerblad, Erik Svedäng, et al.)
    • Memory of a Broken Dimension (XRA)
    • Donut County (Ben Esposito)
    • Oquonie (XXIIVV and Kokorobot)

    Honorable Mentions: Crawl (Powerhoof); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine); Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club); The Sailor’s Dream (Simogo); The Vanishing of Ethan Carter(The Astronauts)

    Excellence in Narrative

    • 80 Days (inkle Studios)
    • Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case)
    • Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Down to the Wire)
    • Pry (Tender Claws)
    • This War of Mine (11 Bit Studios)
    • Three Fourths Home ([Bracket]Games)

    Honorable Mentions: Curtain (Llaura, Dreamfeeel); Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (Upper One Games/E-Line Media); Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds); The Fall (Over The Moon); The Sailor’s Dream (Simogo); The Talos Principle (Croteam)

    Excellence in Design

    • Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
    • 80 Days (inkle Studios)
    • Framed (Loveshack)
    • Invisible Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
    • Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros)
    • The Talos Principle (Croteam)

    Honorable Mentions: Desert Golfing (Captain Games); Dungeon of the Endless (Amplitude Studios); Endless Legend (Amplitude Studios); Helix (Michael Brough); Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games); Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)

    Excellence in Audio

    • Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure (SuperChop Games)
    • Phonopath (Kevin Regamey)
    • Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
    • The Sailor’s Dream (Simogo Games)
    • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
    • Thumper (Drool)

    Honorable Mentions: Deep Under the Sky (Rich Edwards and Colin Northway); Fotonica (Santa Ragione); Goat Simulator (Coffee Stain Studios); Hotline Miami 2 (Dennaton); Nuclear Throne (Vlambeer); Smash Hit (Mediocre)

    Nuovo Award

    • Tetrageddon Games (Nathalie Lawhead)
    • Become A Great Artist In Just 10 Seconds (Michael Brough and Andi McClure)
    • Bounden (Game Oven)
    • Desert Golfing (Captain Games)
    • Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games & Popcannibal)
    • How Do You Do It? (Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, Jonathan Kittaka and Deckman Coss)
    • Plug & Play (Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei / Etter Studio)
    • Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)

    Honorable Mentions: Curtain (Llaura, Dreamfeeel); Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Down to the Wire); International Jetpack Conference (Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish); Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wiilds); Phonopath (Kevin Regamery); Push Me Pull You (House House)

    Seumas McNally Grand Prize

    • Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
    • 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
    • Invisible Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
    • The Talos Principle (Croteam)
    • Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith)
    • This War of Mine (11 Bit Studios)

    Honorable Mentions: Donut County (Ben Esposito); Endless Legend (Amplitude Studios); Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros); Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games); The Sailor’s Dream (Simogo Games); The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

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  • Shadow of Mordor Wins GOTY At GDC Awards

    Shadow of Mordor Wins GOTY At GDC Awards

    The Game Developers Choice Awards were held earlier tonight, and the winners have been announced. Leading the charge with the “Game of the Year” was a surprising winner in Shadow of Mordor, but there were other prizes handed out as well.

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  • ​Alien: Isolation Sure Looks Less Scary In Third-Person

    ​Alien: Isolation Sure Looks Less Scary In Third-Person

    One of the coolest things about Alien: Isolation was how thoroughly it put players into the quaking space-boots of its protagonist Amanda Ripley. There was a button for re-focusing her eyes!

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  • A Closer Look At Valve's First VR Unit

    A Closer Look At Valve's First VR Unit

    Just like its Steam Machine idea, Valve is teaming up with multiple hardware companies to release virtual reality systems. One of the first is this one, the Vive from HTC.

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  • Maybe THIS City-Building Game Will Be Good

    Maybe THIS City-Building Game Will Be Good

    SimCity was a disaster . Cities XXL was a scam . Cities: Skylines must be thinking, hey, hopefully third time’s a charm.

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  • Gabe Newell, Notch Make List Of World's Richest People

    Gabe Newell, Notch Make List Of World's Richest People

    Some people who make (or made) video games are dirt poor. Others, however, could start campfires using $100 bills. In this post, we’re looking at the latter.

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  • Watch: First Trailer for Tarsem's Sci-Fi 'Self/less' with Ryan Reynolds

    Watch: First Trailer for Tarsem's Sci-Fi 'Self/less' with Ryan Reynolds

    Self/less Trailer

    Would you take a life to live forever? After sending out phones to movie bloggers yesterday, today Focus Features has sent out a link that goes straight to the trailer for Self/less. Indeed, this was what it was all for – a promotion for the upcoming Tarsem sci-fi movie Self/less, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley. Kingsley is an old man who wants his consciousness transferred into Ryan Reynolds. So he goes to Phoenix Biogenic and begins the process. All seems to go well, except things get a little hazy part of the way through. Matthew Goode, Michelle Dockery, Natalie Martinez, Victor Garber and Derek Luke also star. This looks pretty good, though the visual look of the dual minds isn’t as trippy as I was expecting. Fire it up. ›››

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  • Academy Awards May Go Back to Only Five Best Picture Nominees

    Academy Awards May Go Back to Only Five Best Picture Nominees

    The Academy Awards

    Since 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have allowed for up to 10 nominees in the Best Picture category after the rules were changed to make the awards ceremony more inclusive for films like The Dark Knight. It was a move aiming to get more people to tune in to the Oscars see if their favorite movie would win the big prize. However, THR reports The Academy is now considering dropping the number of competitors back down to the traditional five nominees. So the six year run of allowing up to 10 nominees hasn’t worked as a trade source says, “They tried it, and it really didn’t do us any good.” ›››

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  • Steve Martin Signs Up for Ang Lee's 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'

    Steve Martin Signs Up for Ang Lee's 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'

    Steve Martin

    Later this year, we’ll hear Steve Martin as the voice of the alien leader Captain Smek in the DreamWorks Animation film Home. Otherwise, it’s been a few years since the actor appeared in a live-action film with The Big Year in 2011 being his last comedy appearance on the big screen. But that will change soon as Deadline reports Matin has taken a role in Ang Lee’s next film, an adaptation of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on Ben Fountain’s novel of the same name. Newcomver Joe Alwyn and Garrett Hedlund are already on board to star in the film about the heroic survivors of a battle in the Iraq War. ›››

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  • TV Star Jessie Usher to Play Will Smith's Son in 'Independence Day 2'

    TV Star Jessie Usher to Play Will Smith's Son in 'Independence Day 2'

    Jessie Usher

    Even though Will Smith may not be showing up for Independence Day 2, that doesn’t mean there won’t be ties to his character in the developing sequel at 20th Century Fox. After Michael B. Jordan was previously rumored to play the son of Smith’s character (or step-son if it’s the same character from the first film), THR reports it will be Jessie Usher taking the role. You might not know Usher by name, but he’s the star of the Starz series “Survivor’s Remorse,” so this promises to be quite a breakthrough role for the actor, not unlike what Independence Day did for Smith’s feature film career as his first blockbuster nearly 20 years ago. ›››

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