By Hector Cortez Jan 10, 2012, 3:23 GMT
Organizers have revealed the finalists for the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Nominations this year are led by three studios and their games, each of which received five Choice Award nods, including Bethesda Game Studios’ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Valve’s Portal 2.
Organizers have revealed the finalists for the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.
Also nominated five times was newcomer Supergiant Games and its action RPG Bastion, which saw nominations in four categories, plus one for the studio itself, for Best Debut.
Both Portal 2 and Skyrim were nominated for Game Of The Year as one of their nods. The other Game Of The Year nominees are Rocksteady Studios’s Batman: Arkham City, FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, and Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Overall, the Game Developers Choice Awards are open to any video game, with no restrictions or payment for game submission, with open nominations from an abundance of game professionals helping to choose this year's finalists. Winners will now be selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards-specific International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), which is an invitation-only group comprised of 500 leading game creators from all parts of the video game industry.
The complete list of nominees for the 12th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards are as follows:Best Game DesignThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)Portal 2 (Valve)Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)Dark Souls (FromSoftware)
InnovationSkylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Toys For Bob)Portal 2 (Valve)Bastion (Supergiant Games)Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)L.A. Noire (Team Bondi)
Best TechnologyBattlefield 3 (DICE)L.A. Noire (Team Bondi)Crysis 2 (Crytek Frankfurt/UK)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)
Best Handheld/Mobile GameTiny Tower (NimbleBit)Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)Jetpack Joyride (Halfbrick)Infinity Blade II (Chair Entertainment)Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capy Games/Superbrothers)
Best AudioBastion (Supergiant Games)LittleBigPlanet 2 (Media Molecule)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)Dead Space 2 (Visceral Games)Portal 2 (Valve)
Best Downloadable GameStacking (Double Fine)From Dust (Ubisoft Montpellier)Bastion (Supergiant Games)Outland (Housemarque)Frozen Synapse (Mode 7)
Best NarrativePortal 2 (Valve)The Witcher 2 (CD Projekt RED)Bastion (Supergiant Games)Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)Saints Row: The Third (Volition)
Best DebutSupergiant Games (Bastion)Team Bondi (L.A. Noire)Re-Logic (Terraria)BioWare Austin (Star Wars: The Old Republic)Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
Best Visual ArtsUncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)Rayman Origins (Ubisoft Montpellier)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition Japan)Battlefield 3 (DICE)
Game of the YearBatman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)Portal 2 (Valve)Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal)Dark Souls (FromSoftware)
In addition to the awards for individual games, the Game Developers Choice Awards committee will be announcing its Special Award recipients in the near future, including honorees for the Pioneer, Ambassador and Lifetime Achievement Special Awards - as well as revealing the identity of this year's Game Developers Choice Awards host.
Winners in all major categories will be honored at the Game Developers Choice Awards show, attended by more than 3,000 of the world's leading video game developers, and taking place Wednesday, March 7th at 6:30 pm at the Moscone Convention Center during the 2012 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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