GDC 09: LittleBigPlanet, Fallout 3 win big at Game Developers Choice Awards; Modern Warfare 2 gets dated?
The nominations are in, the tallying’s over, and the GDC 09 Developers’ Choice Awards have come and gone. The big winners this year were Fallout 3, which got the Game of the Year award, and LittleBigPlanet, which won in 4 different categories. The tail-end of the awards ceremony even had a little surprise in the form of a trailer for one of the most highly-anticipated sequels in recent years. Details after the jump!
The nominations are in, the tallying’s over, and the GDC 09 Developers’ Choice Awards have come and gone. The big winners this year were Fallout 3 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC), which got the Game of the Year award, and LittleBigPlanet, which won in 4 different categories. Here’s the rundown of the winners:
- Best New Debut: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Braid, Sins of a Solar Empire, World of Goo and Soul Bubbles
- Best Audio: Dead Space
- Other nominees: L4D, MGS4, Gears of War 2
- Best Game Design: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Fallout 3, L4D, Braid and Far Cry 2
- Best Downloadable Game: World of Goo
- Other nominees: Braid, N+, PixelJunk Eden, Castle Crashers
- Best Handheld Game: God of War: Chains of Olympus
- Other nominees: Patapon, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, echochrome, The World Ends With You
- Best Writing Award: Fallout 3
- Other nominees: Braid, MGS4, GTAIV and Far Cry 2
- Best Technology Award: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, GTAIV and Spore
- Best Visual Art Award: Prince of Persia
- Other nominees: LittleBigPlanet, Gears of War 2, MGS4 and Fallout 3
- Innovation Award: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Spore, World of Goo, Boom Blox, Braid
- Game of the Year Award: Fallout 3
- Other nominees: Fable 2, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, GTAIV
Apart from the games, four people also got recognized during the awards ceremony: Tommy Tallarico got an Ambassador Award, Harmonix‘s Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy got the Pioneer Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award was handed to Hideo Kojima.
Aaaaand we’re not quite done yet! Tucked away at the end of the awards ceremony was a little teaser trailer that ended with these words:
Modern Warfare 2: 11 10 09
Oh yeah!
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Via GameSpot