The 11th annual Game Developers Choice awards are coming up in March, and ahead of the event, the nominees in most major categories have just been announced. That gives everybody just over a month to bicker and argue about the exclusion of X, Y, and Z. and why all the nominated games totally sucked.<\/p>\n
The event is happening in San Francisco on 2 March, and will be presented by Gamasutra and Game Developer Magazine. The finalists and winners are determined by an invite-only voting panel of some 500 industry professionals.<\/p>\n
The list of nominees includes:<\/p>\n
Best Game Design<\/strong><\/p>\n Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)<\/p>\n Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)<\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)<\/p>\n God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)<\/p>\n Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)<\/p>\n Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory)<\/p>\n Minecraft (Mojang)<\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Dance Central (Harmonix)<\/p>\n Best Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n Starcraft II (Blizzard)<\/p>\n Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)<\/p>\n Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)<\/p>\n Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)<\/p>\n God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)<\/p>\n Best Handheld Game<\/strong><\/p>\n God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Ready At Dawn\/SCE Santa Monica)<\/p>\n Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab)<\/p>\n Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Kojima Productions)<\/p>\n Game Dev Story (Kairosoft)<\/p>\n Dragon Quest IX (Level 5)<\/p>\n Best Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)<\/p>\n Halo: Reach (Bungie)<\/p>\n Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DICE)<\/p>\n Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)<\/p>\n Best Downloadable Game<\/strong><\/p>\n Costume Quest (Double Fine)<\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)<\/p>\n Minecraft (Mojang)<\/p>\n Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)<\/p>\n Best Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)<\/p>\n Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)<\/p>\n Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)<\/p>\n Costume Quest (Double Fine)<\/p>\n Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian)<\/p>\n Best Debut Game<\/strong><\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Darksiders (Vigil Games)<\/p>\n Minecraft (Mojang)<\/p>\n Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)<\/p>\n Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)<\/p>\n Best Visual Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)<\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)<\/p>\n Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)<\/p>\n Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)<\/p>\n Game of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)<\/p>\n Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)<\/p>\n Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)<\/p>\n Limbo (Playdead)<\/p>\n Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)<\/p>\n The Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Limbo received the most nominations with a total of seven, while RockStar’s Red Dead Redemption also fared well with six. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Limbo, Mass Effect 2, and Red Dead Redemption dominate lists<\/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-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}