{"id":10441,"date":"2011-03-03T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gdc-s-best-games-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10441-gdc-s-best-games-of-2010","title":{"rendered":"GDC\u2019s best games of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game developers have voted for their best games of 2010 in the Game Developers Choice awards, and the choices were surprisingly unsurprising with staple &lsquo;best of 2010&rsquo; winner Red Dead Redemption stealing the show.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, developers showed their class by selecting current indie darling Minecraft as the best debut game of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Audio<\/strong><br \/>Red Dead Redemption<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Debut Game<\/strong><br \/>Minecraft<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Writing<\/strong><br \/>Mass Effect 2<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Game Design<\/strong><br \/>Red Dead Redemption<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Downloadable Game<\/strong><br \/>Minecraft<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Visual Arts<\/strong><br \/>Limbo<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Technology<\/strong><br \/>Red Dead Redemption<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Handheld Game<\/strong><br \/>Cut The Rope<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovation Award<\/strong><br \/>Minecraft<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Game of the Year<\/strong><br \/>Red Dead Redemption<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Award: Tim Brengle &amp; Ian MacKenzie<br \/>Pioneer Award: Yu Suzuki<br \/>Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Molyneux<\/p>\n<p>Numerous publications and organisations began weighing in on their 2010 game of the year nominees towards the end of last year, but the GDC awards represent the feelings of those working in the industry. This should give us an idea of what industry professionals are currently aspiring to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11431-GDC-announces-their-best-games-of-2010\" target=\"_self\" title=\"GDC&rsquo;s best games of 2010\"><strong>GDC&rsquo;s best games of 2010<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Dead Redemption and Minecraft clean up <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}