Game Developers Choice Online Awards – Video Game News, Reviews, Walkthroughs And Guides | GamingBolt https://gamingbolt.com Get a Bolt of Gaming Now! Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:04:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Game Developers Choice Awards 2013 Now Open For Nominations https://gamingbolt.com/game-developers-choice-awards-now-open-for-nominations https://gamingbolt.com/game-developers-choice-awards-now-open-for-nominations#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:04:12 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=127663 gdc next
Nominations have been opened for the Game Developer Conference’s 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards . Nominations will take place through January 4th, 2013 with the ceremony taking place on March 27th at GDC 2013 in San Francisco, California.

There are 10 award categories, along with three Special Awards categories.

Regular Awards
Best Audio
Best Debut Game
Best Downloadable Game
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Best Game Design
Best Narrative
Best Technology
Best Visual Arts
Innovation Award
Game of the Year
Audience Award

Special Awards
– Lifetime Achievement
– Pioneer Award
– Ambassador Award

Lifetime Achievement is self-explanatory while the Pioneer Award is reserved for those who instituted breakthroughs in technology or game design and the Ambassador Award is for those who helped advance the status of the gaming industry by either improving the community from within or advocating for it outside.

This time though,a new award category has been added: the Audience Award, where fans can vote on their favourite game of 2012. Voting for the Audience Award opens on February 4th 2013 and nominations can be posted here.

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The Game Developers Online Choice Awards’ results have been declared and games like Star Wars: The Old Republic and League of Legends by Riot Games have won plenty of awards.

The Old Republic won four out of the six awards it was nominated for, while League of Legends won two honors.

Even the Android/iOS game Draw Something won in one category, namely Best Social Network Game.

Other games that won awards include Journey, Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft.

A list of all the winners is given below.

BEST LIVE GAME

·       League of Legends (Riot Games)

BEST NEW ONLINE GAME

·       Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin)

BEST SOCIAL NETWORK GAME

·       Draw Something (OMGPOP/Zynga)

BEST ONLINE TECHNOLOGY

·       Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin)

BEST AUDIO for an ONLINE GAME

·       Diablo III (Blizzard Entertainment)

BEST ONLINE VISUAL ARTS

·       Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin)

BEST COMMUNITY RELATIONS

·       League of Legends (Riot Games)

BEST ONLINE GAME DESIGN

·       Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin)

AUDIENCE AWARD

·       League of Legends (Riot Games)

ONLINE INNOVATION AWARD

·       Journey (thatgamecompany)

HALL OF FAME AWARD

·       World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)

ONLINE GAME LEGEND AWARD

Do you agree with these choices? Tell us in your comments below.

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