National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers






Award established in 2001 and given annually by the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers


National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers (NAVGTR) is a non-profit organization that promotes and recognizes the interactive entertainment industry. The organization administers the NAVGTR Awards annually since 2001.
The organization has over 600 professional members from the gaming press that vote on the games nominations.[1] For the 2013 edition, there were 54 award categories.[2]




Contents






  • 1 Categories


    • 1.1 Animation


    • 1.2 Art Direction


    • 1.3 Camera Direction


    • 1.4 Character Design


    • 1.5 Control Design


    • 1.6 Control Precision


    • 1.7 Costume Design


    • 1.8 Direction in a Game Cinema


    • 1.9 Direction in Virtual Reality


    • 1.10 Game Design


    • 1.11 Game Engineering


    • 1.12 Game of the Year


    • 1.13 Game, Classic Revival


    • 1.14 Game, eSports


    • 1.15 Game, Franchise Action


    • 1.16 Game, Franchise Adventure


    • 1.17 Game, Franchise Family


    • 1.18 Game, Franchise Fighting


    • 1.19 Game, Franchise Racing


    • 1.20 Game, Franchise Role Playing


    • 1.21 Game, Franchise Sports


    • 1.22 Game, Music or Performance-Based


    • 1.23 Game, Original Action


    • 1.24 Game, Original Adventure


    • 1.25 Game, Original Family


    • 1.26 Game, Original Fighting


    • 1.27 Game, Original Racing


    • 1.28 Game, Original Role Playing


    • 1.29 Game, Original Sports


    • 1.30 Game, Puzzle


    • 1.31 Game, Simulation


    • 1.32 Game, Special Class


    • 1.33 Game, Strategy


    • 1.34 Graphics, Technical


    • 1.35 Honorary Award


    • 1.36 Lead Performance, Comedy


    • 1.37 Lead Performance, Drama


    • 1.38 Lighting/Texturing


    • 1.39 Original Dramatic Score


    • 1.40 Original Light Mix Score


    • 1.41 Performance in a Sports Game


    • 1.42 Song Collection


    • 1.43 Song, Original or Adapted


    • 1.44 Sound Editing, Game Cinema


    • 1.45 Sound Effects


    • 1.46 Sound Mixing in Virtual Reality


    • 1.47 Supporting Performance in a Comedy


    • 1.48 Supporting Performance in a Drama


    • 1.49 Use of Sound


    • 1.50 Writing in a Comedy


    • 1.51 Writing in a Drama


    • 1.52 Discontinued Categories


      • 1.52.1 Innovation in Game Play


      • 1.52.2 Innovation in Game Technology


      • 1.52.3 Original Musical Score


      • 1.52.4 Voice Performance


      • 1.52.5 Voice Performance, Lead


      • 1.52.6 Voice Performance, Supporting


      • 1.52.7 Writing, Dialogue


      • 1.52.8 Writing, Story






  • 2 See also


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Animation, Game Cinema
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (Francis Co)
Metal Gear Solid 2 (Jennifer Gallo, Asa Hammond, Ben Lopez, Christian Severin)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Kyo Ladopoulos, Sean Miller)
Onimusha: Warlords
Final Fantasy X Hiroshi Kuwabara (ewp), Kengo Sasaoka (ewp)
Square
2001 Animation, Game Engine
Dead or Alive 3 (Keiichi Abe)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Kyo Ladopoulos, Sean Miller)
Pikmin
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Ico Takeshi Ambe (Ico, Yorda, Queen), Atsuko Fukuyama (Ico, Yorda, Queen), Mizuki Muramatsu (Smokeman, Ico), Fumito Ueda (lead animator)
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2002 Animation, Game Cinema
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Tony Gialdini)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Super Mario Sunshine
Kingdom Hearts Tatsuya Kando
Square Enix
2002 Animation, Game Engine
Jet Set Radio Future
Mark of Kri (Erik Medina)
Metroid Prime (Derek Bonikowski, Dax Pallotta, Stephen Zafros)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Steve Dupont)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus N/A
Sucker Punch Productions
2003 Animation, Game Cinema
Call of Duty (Michael Boon)
Final Fantasy X-2 (Kohichiro Shiratori)
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Peter Hajba)
Silent Hill 3 (Naoki Tarama, Sōsuke Honda, Shiro Kanemori)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Dany Joannette
Ubisoft
2003 Animation, Game Engine
Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Tomoo Hiraoka, Masaki Koshikawa, Taro Yamauchi, Ryuji Ikeda, Yosuke Takahashi, Yōjirō Hirashita, Naonori Osada, Atsuhiro Ishikawa, Makoto Fukahori, Takuji Otsuka, Akira Izumi)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Kimihiro Ozaki, Takahiro Nishigaki, Chikako Nishizaki, Takeshi Yamaguchi)
Viewtiful Joe
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Richard Arroyo, Bruno Rochefort, Omar Morsy, Patrick Tassé, Patrick Pelletier, Allan Treitz, Dominic Vincent, Frederic Madore
Ubisoft
2004 Animation, Game Cinema
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Benny Edlund)
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Tomohiro Kawamura)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Jerome Desplas)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Hajime Yashiro, So Toyota (ewp), Masahiro Yoshinaga (ewp), Makoto Akashi (ewp), Goro Kaneko (ewp)
Konami
2004 Animation, Game Engine
Burnout 3: Takedown
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Benny Edlund)
Doom 3 (James Houska, Fred Nilsson, Eric Webb)
Ninja Gaiden
Half-Life 2 Miles Estes, Bay Raitt

Valve Corporation
2005 Animation, Game Cinema
Devil May Cry 3 (Yosuke Yamashita)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Agnès Billard, Joëlle Dupire, Patrick Harboun, Dominique Libanio, Yves Rolland)
Psychonauts (Raymond Crook, Mark Hamer, Tyler Hurd, Christopher Magovern, Razmig Mavlian, Chris Schultz)
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (Kris Peterson)
God of War Robert Blye, Jessica Arbogast, Kwon Min
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2005 Animation, Game Engine
Burnout Revenge (Shaun Adams, Richard Franke, Omar Mohammed, Yuta Nakamura, Ian Palmer, Lee Walton)
God of War (Frank Strocco)
Nintendogs (Michiho Hayashi, Akito Osanai, Kenji Shinmoto, Masaaki Ishikawa, Masanobu Sato, Mieko Ajima, Hideaki Takamura)
Resident Evil 4
Shadow of the Colossus Atsuko Fukuyama, Masanobu Tanaka, Daisuke Uchikawa, Sousuke Honda, Tatsuhiko Tachibe, Rory Little
Team Ico
2006 Animation, Game Cinema
Call of Duty 3 (Luis Bolivar (Yosh), Eric Campanella, Jamie Egerton, Bourbaki Joseph, William Lykke, Marvin Rojas, Adam Rosas, Jon Stoll, Jimmy Zielinski)
Fight Night Round 3 (Koichiro Shiratori, Hirotaka Sawada)
Gears of War (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog, Jay Hosfelt)
Ōkami
Final Fantasy XII Koichiro Shiratori, Hirotaka Sawada
Square Enix
2006 Animation, Game Engine
Gears of War (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog, Jay Hosfelt)
Kingdom Hearts II (Tatsuya Kando)
LocoRoco (Tomohito Hashiguchi, Tsutomu Kouno)
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania (Kelly Scott)
Ōkami Takaaki Yamanouchi, Tatsuro Iwamoto, Nobuaki Yamazaki, Eijiro Nishimura
Capcom
2007 Animation, Game Cinema
God of War II (Dwayne Mason)
Heavenly Sword (Martin Binfield, Laura Thomas)
The Witcher (Piotr Chomiak, Piotr Janiszewski, Kamil Kozłowski, Piotr Żyła)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Eric Baldwin, Kion Phillips, Van Phan)
Assassin's Creed Sylvain Bernard
Ubisoft Montreal
2007 Animation, Game Engine
Heavenly Sword (Martin Binfield, Laura Thomas)
Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Troy Slough, Michael Yosh, John Kim)
Assassin's Creed Youssef El Aakouchi, Marc-Andre Houde, Mike Mennillo, Wilson Mui, Chi Chun, Ng, Mikael Persson, Hugues Richer, Gaelle Robert, Matt Sifton, Frederick Taylor, Kristjan Zadziuk
Ubisoft Montreal
2008 Animation, Game Cinema
Devil May Cry 4 (Yasuyo Hirao)
Gears of War 2 (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog, Alex Whitney)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Teppei Takehana)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Noah Bordner, Kento Kojima, David Lam, Jax Lee, YuehChih Eric Lin, Ann Mikulka, Matt Ornstein, Christine Phelan, Patrick Przybyla, Tristan Sacramento)
Dead Space Conant Fong
EA Redwood Shores
2008 Animation, Game Engine
Castle Crashers (Dan Paladin)
Mirror's Edge (Tobias Dahl)
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy (Sean Letts)
Spore (John Cimino, Tony Gialdini, Gal Roth)
World of Goo (Kyle Gabler)
Prince of Persia David Wilkinson, Dennis Collantes, Daniel Desjardins
Ubisoft Montreal
2009 Animation, 2D or Limited 3D
A Boy and His Blob (Eleazar Del Rosario)
And Yet It Moves (Claude Schaube)
PixelJunk Shooter
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Tadashi Hiramatsu)
Patapon 2 N/A
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2009 Animation, 3D
Assassin's Creed II (Cristinel Bostan, Chi Chun Ng, Gaëlle Robert)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Zafer Coban)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Mark Grigsby, Paul Messerly)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Josh Scherr, Jeremy Lai-Yates, Michael Yosh, Eric Baldwin
Naughty Dog
2010 Animation
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
God of War III (Bruno Velazquez)
Heavy Rain (Clément Castanier)
Mass Effect 2 (Parrish Ley, Brad Kinley)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Marc-André Clermont
Ubisoft Montreal
2011 Animation
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Dead Space 2
L.A. Noire (Tor Sigurdsson, Daniel Armstrong, Philip Sullivan, David Zwierzchaczewski)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Josh Scherr, Eric Baldwin, Jeremy Lai-Yates)
Rayman Origins Anthony Le Du, Nicolas Athane, Anais Dusautois, Nadége Floriot, Eric Verwaerde
Ubisoft Montpellier
Ubisoft Paris
Ubisoft
2012 Animation
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (John Root)
Assassin's Creed III (Elaine Duffy, Mike Mennillo, Philippe Trudelle)
Karateka (Richard Arroyo, Ralph Bull, Ernie Urzua)
Max Payne 3 (Mark Tennant)
Dust: An Elysian Tail N/A Dean Dodrill
2012 Animation, Interactive
Mark of the Ninja
Persona 4 Arena
Shank 2 (Aaron Bouthillier, Allan Cortez, Jordan Krahn, Elard Meneses, Alex Savin, Leo Ito, Yumiko Sasakawa, Eugene Trakhtenberg)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Jason Diaz, David Andrade, Chris Cantero, Chad Davis, Bang Lee, Tim McNulty, Patrick Przybyla, Justin Rochon, Amor Stewart, Seth Stockholm)
Journey Jacky Ke Jiang
thatgamecompany
2013 Animation
Beyond: Two Souls (Teppei Takehana)
Rayman Legends
The Last of Us
Tomb Raider (Brandon Fernández)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Kazuyoshi Onoda, Masafumi Yokota
Level-5
2013 Animation, Artistic
Abzu
Dishonored 2 (Damien Pougheon)
Far Cry Primal (Catherine Tirran, Wang Wen)
Inside (Andreas N. Grontved)
The Last Guardian Masanobu Tanaka
SIE Japan Studio
2013 Animation, Interactive
Dead Space 3 (David Jackson, Primo A. Navidad, Seth Swanson, Neal Thibod, Shane Ushijima, Nestor Angeles Jr.)
DuckTales Remastered (Jesse Octavio Lopez)
Knack (Aaron Papa, Richard Pince)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Erin Olorenshaw, Rob Willock)
The Walking Dead: 400 Days Jessica Brezzo
Telltale Games
2014 Animation, Artistic
Mario Kart 8
Tengami
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Luca Erbetta, Sylvie Gorris, Nicolas Leger, Valérie Geoffroy, Stéphane Rose)
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z (Jason Shum)
South Park: The Stick of Truth Jack Shih, Jenny Yu
Obsidian Entertainment, South Park Digital Studios
2014 Animation, Technical
Bayonetta 2 (Takaaki Yamaguchi)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Infamous Second Son
Titanfall (Bruce Ferriz, Mark Grigsby, Paul Messerly)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Camille Chu
Monolith Productions
2015 Animation, Artistic
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Josselin Authelet)
Fallout 4 (Josh Jones)
King's Quest Chapter I: A Knight To Remember (Nathan Dunlap, Christian Brierley, Linda Petch)
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Teruhiko Suzuki)
Rise of the Tomb Raider Brandon Fernandez
Crystal Dynamics
2015 Animation, Technical
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Dom Drozdz)
Dying Light (Dawid Lubryka)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yusuke Nishida)
The Order: 1886 (Daniel Sipes, Adam Byrne)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Jamie Bury
CD Projekt Red
2016 Animation, Technical
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Jason Greenberg, Mark DeRidder)
Dishonored 2 (Damien Pougheon)
DOOM (Shinichiro Hara, Brett Paton)
Gears of War 4 (Jason Hopkins)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Jeremy Yates, Michael Yosh
Naughty Dog
2017 Animation, Artistic
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Little Nightmares
Persona 5
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Cuphead N/A Studio MDHR
2017 Animation, Technical
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Splatoon 2
Horizon Zero Dawn Bart Wijsman
Guerrilla Games


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (Pakin Liptawat)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Farzad Varahramyan)
Onimusha: Warlords (Yukihiro Hayashi)
Soul Reaver 2
Final Fantasy X Yusuke Naora, Shintaro Takai, Tetsuya Takahashi
Square
2001 Art Direction, Game Engine
Devil May Cry
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (Pakin Liptawat)
Final Fantasy X (Yusuke Naora (world), Shintaro Takai (battle))
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Farzad Varahramyan)
Ico Katsuhiko Abe, Taijuro Hachiya, Kaihei Hayano, Tsutomu Kouno, Atsushi Morioka, Kazuhiro Numata, Nanako Ohmura, Mitsuhiro Shimooki, Mikiko Takeda, Chikara Ueno
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2002 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
Kingdom Hearts (Takayuki Ohdachi)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Tetsuo Kadonaga)
Resident Evil Zero (Hiroyuki Hayashi)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Hugo Dallaire)
Metroid Prime Todd Keller
Retro Studios
2002 Art Direction, Game Engine
Age of Mythology (Lance Hoke)
Animal Crossing (Hugo Dallaire)
Jet Set Radio Future (Ryūta Ueda)
Kingdom Hearts (Takayuki Ohdachi)
The Mark of Kri (Jeff Remmer)
Resident Evil Zero (Hiroyuki Hayashi)
Metroid Prime N/A
Retro Studios
2003 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
Final Fantasy X-2 (Shintaro Takai)
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Saku Lehtinen)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Raphaël Lacoste)
Panzer Dragoon Orta Robert Schonfisch, Vicki Morawietz (ewp)
Smilebit
2003 Art Direction, Game Engine
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (Robert Olson)
Final Fantasy X-2 (Shintaro Takai)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Raphaël Lacoste)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker N/A
Nintendo
2004 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
Fable (Kiki Wolfkill)
Half-Life 2 (Viktor Antonov)
Ninja Gaiden (Tomonobu Itagaki, Hiroaki Matsui)
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Makoto Hanafusa)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Aaron Garbut, Alex Horton
Rockstar North
2004 Art Direction, Game Engine
Fable (Kiki Wolfkill)
Far Cry (Eric Guimbault)
Myst IV Revelation (Pascal Blanché)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Mickail Labat)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Nathalie Provost)
Doom 3
Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, Andy Chang, Seneca Menard, Kenneth Scott (lead artist), Patrick Thomas

id Software
2005 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
God of War (Terry Smith, Steve Caterson)
King Kong
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Olivier Leonardi)
Psychonauts (Scott Campbell)
We Love Katamari
Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Ugajin

Namco
2005 Art Direction, Game Engine
Killer 7 (Akihiko Ishizaka)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Olivier Leonardi)
Psychonauts (Scott Campbell)
Shadow of the Colossus
God of War Terry Smith, Steve Caterson, Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Gustavo Rasche, Mark Ahlin, Mark Anderson, Paul Coda, Dennis Johnson, Charlie Wen
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2006 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
God of War (Jeremiah O'Flaherty)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Dan Hay)
Suikoden V (Hideki Tanaka)
The Godfather (Margaret Foley)
Final Fantasy XII Hiroshi Kamohara (ewp), Kazuyuki Ikumori (ewp)
Square Enix
2006 Art Direction, Game Engine
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Matthew Carofano)
Final Fantasy XII (Hideo Minaba, Isamu Kamikokuryo)
Gears of War (Jeremiah O'Flaherty)
Yoshi's Island DS (Yasuhisa Nakagawa)
Ōkami Naoki Katakai
Clover Studio
2007 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
Assassin's Creed (Raphaël Lacoste)
Call of Duty 4 (Richard Kriegler)
God of War II (Stig Asmussen)
Heavenly Sword (Hugues Giboire)
BioShock Scott Sinclair, Mauricio Tejerina, Rob Waters, Nate Wells
2K Boston
2007 Art Direction, Game Engine
Assassin's Creed (Raphaël Lacoste)
Eternal Sonata
God of War II (Stig Asmussen)
Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Andrew Wood)
BioShock Scott Sinclair
2K Boston
2008 Art Direction in a Game Cinema
Dead Space (Jan Milham)
Final Fantasy IV (Akira Oguro, Airi Yoshioka)
Lego Indiana Jones (James Cunliffe)
Tomb Raider: Underworld (Darrell Gallagher)
Gears of War 2 Chris Perna
Epic Games
2008 Art Direction, Game Engine
Braid (David Hellman)
Little Big Planet (Kareem Ettouney)
PixelJunk Eden
Tales of Vesperia (Yan Shuang)
Fallout 3
Istvan Pely, Adam Adamowicz, Craig Mullins

Bethesda Game Studios
2009 Art Direction
Assassin's Creed II (Mohammed Gambouz)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (David Hego)
Brütal Legend (Lee Petty)
inFamous
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Erick Pangilinan, Robh Ruppel
Naughty Dog
2010 Art Direction, Contemporary
Alan Wake (Saku Lehtinen)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Colin Whitney)
Heavy Rain (François Baranger, Benoît Godde)
Just Cause 2 (Stefan Ljungqvist)
Limbo Morten Christian Bramsen
Playdead
2010 Art Direction, Fantasy
BioShock 2 (Mat Tremblay)
Disney Epic Mickey (Mark Stefanowicz)
God of War III (Ken Feldman)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Tetsuya Notoya, Rieko Kawahara, Yumiko Sano)
Mass Effect 2 Alistair McNally
BioWare
2010 Art Direction, Period
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Mohammed Gambouz)
Fable III (John McCormack)
Mafia II (Roman Hladík)
Red Dead Redemption Daren Bader
Rockstar San Diego
2011 Art Direction, Contemporary
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Jonathan-Jacques Belletête)
Portal 2
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Erick Pangilinan, Robh Ruppel
Naughty Dog
2011 Art Direction, Fantasy
Bastion (Jen Zee)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Kareem Ettouney)
Rayman Origins (Floriane Marchix)
Alice: Madness Returns Kenneth Wong
Spicy Horse
2011 Art Direction, Period Total War: Shogun 2 Assassin's Creed: Revelations Raphael Lacoste
Ubisoft Montreal
2012 Art Direction, Contemporary
Far Cry 3 (Jean-Alexis Doyon)
Spec Ops: The Line (Mathias Wiese)
Street Fighter X Tekken (Akira Toba)
The Unfinished Swan (Hokyo Lim)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Richard Zambarano)
The Darkness II Mat Tremblay
Digital Extremes
2012 Art Direction, Fantasy
Darksiders II (Han Randhawa)
Dokuro
Fez (Phil Fish)
The Bridge (Mario Castañeda)
Botanicula Jaromir Plachy
Amanita Design
2012 Art Direction, Period
Assassin's Creed III
Dragon's Dogma (Daigo Ikeno)
Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai
Dishonored Sebastien Mitton
Arkane Studios
2013 Art Direction, Contemporary
Grand Theft Auto V (Aaron Garbut)
Remember Me (Aleksi Briclot, Michel Koch)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Scott Lee)
Tomb Raider (Patrick Sirk)
The Last of Us Erick Pangilinan
Naughty Dog
2013 Art Direction, Fantasy
God of War: Ascension (Christopher Sutton)
Puppeteer
Rayman Legends
Tearaway (Oliver Ruddick)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Takashi Ogomori
Level-5
2013 Art Direction, Period
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Raphaël Lacoste)
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Olivier Nicolas)
Ryse: Son of Rome (Peter Gornstein)
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Bioshock: Infinite Scott Sinclair
Irrational Games
2014 Art Direction, Contemporary
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Destiny (Christopher Barrett)
Transistor (Jen Zee)
The Wolf Among Us (David Bogan)
Far Cry 4 Jean-Alexis Doyon
Ubisoft Divertissements Inc.
2014 Art Direction, Fantasy
Child of Light (Thomas Rollus)
Hohokum (Richard Hogg)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Philip Straub)
Monument Valley
Dragon Age: Inquisition Matthew M. Goldman
BioWare
2014 Art Direction, Period Influence
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Tengami
Thief (Emanuel Garcia)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Paul Tumelaire)
Assassin's Creed Unity Mohammed Gambouz
Ubisoft Divertissements Inc.
2015 Art Direction, Contemporary
Batman: Arkham Knight (David Hego)
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Andrew Hamilton)
Fallout 4 (Istvan Pely)
Life Is Strange (Michel Koch)
Rise of the Tomb Raider Brenoch Adams
Crystal Dynamics
2015 Art Direction, Fantasy
Bloodborne (Jian Ping Qiu)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Maximilian Degen)
Rocket League
Yoshi's Woolly World (Yasuko Sugiyama, Sachiko Nakamichi, Shingo Hosokawa, Tomoya Abe)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Krzysztof Krzyścin
CD Projekt Red
2015 Art Direction, Period Influence
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Thierry Dansereau)
Fallout 4 (Istvan Pely)
The Order: 1886 (Nathan Phail-Liff)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Marian Chomiak
CD Projekt Red
2016 Art Direction, Contemporary
Forza Horizon 3 (Benjamin Penrose)
Inside (Jeremy Petreman, Marek Bogdan)
Tom Clancy's The Division (Gabriel Odgren)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Robh Ruppel, Erick Pangilinan)
DOOM Jonathan Lane
id Software
2016 Art Direction, Fantasy
Darkest Dungeon (Chris Bourassa)
Final Fantasy XV (Tomohiro Hasegawa, Yusuke Naora
Isamu Kamikokuryo)
Owlboy (Simon Stafsnes Andersen)
Titanfall 2 (Joel Emslie)
The Last Guardian Fumito Ueda
SIE Japan Studio
2016 Art Direction, Period Influence
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India (Glenn Brace)
Dishonored 2 (Sebastien Mitton)
Far Cry Primal (Mickael Labat)
The Banner Saga 2 (Arnie Jorgensen, Igor Artyomenko)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine Lucjan Wiecek
CD Projekt Red
2017 Art Direction, Contemporary
Little Nightmares
Monument Valley 2
Night in the Woods
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Persona 5 N/A
Atlus, P Studio
2017 Art Direction, Fantasy
Destiny 2
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Prey
Pyre
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild N/A
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
2017 Art Direction, Period Influence
Assassin's Creed Origins
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Cuphead N/A Studio MDHR


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Devil May Cry (Hideki Kamiya)
Halo (Joseph Staten)
NFL 2K2 (Tim Walter)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Ico Hajime Sugiyama
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2002 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Irene Nolan)
Metroid Prime
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Jean-Sébastien Morin)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Bruce Oberg
Sucker Punch Productions
2003 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Project Gotham Racing 2
SSX 3
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time lippe Morin, Rémi Lacoste, Max Bricault
Ubisoft
2004 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Half-Life 2
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Hideo Kojima)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Sly 2: Band of Thieves Bruce Oberg
Sucker Punch Productions
2005 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
God of War (Jessica Brunelle)
King Kong (Christophe Morel)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Max Bricault, Jesse Malcolm Sweet, Pierre Michaud)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves Bruce Oberg
Sucker Punch Productions
2006 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Ōkami (Yusuke Kan)
Rule of Rose (Shuji lshikawa)
Viva Pinata
Gears of War
Cliff Bleszinski, Ray Davis

Epic Games
2007 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
BioShock
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
God of War II (Mark Simon (Lead), Andy Ashcraft, Paul Edwards)
Nights: Journey of Dreams (Takashi Iizuka)
Heavenly Sword N/A
Ninja Theory
2008 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Gears of War 2
Mirror's Edge
Ninja Gaiden II (Tomonobu Itagaki, Hiroaki Matsui, Katsunori Ehara)
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy (Emmanuel Valdez)
Dead Space Brett Robbins
EA Redwood Shores
2009 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Sefton Hill)
Dead Space: Extraction
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Resident Evil 5 (Toshio Ohashi)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Pål Engstad, Travis McIntosh, Dan Liebgold
Naughty Dog
2010 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Darksiders
God of War III (Mark Simon)
Heavy Rain (Maxime Brochen, Steven Brochen, Damien Charbon)
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Max Bricault, Patrick Bonin)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Bruno Bouchard, Juan Esteban Diaz, Patrick Bonin
Ubisoft Montreal
2011 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Gears of War 3
Sonic Generations (Hiroshi Miyamoto)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Jose Astacio, Eugene Chung, Anthony Jacob)
Dead Space 2 Robert Foster
Visceral Games
2012 Camera Direction, Game Engine
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Motomu Toriyama)
Sniper Elite V2
The Walking Dead
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (John Garvin)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Max Payne 3 Colin Entwistle
Rockstar Games
2013 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Beyond: Two Souls (Maxime Brochen)
Bioshock: Infinite
Super Mario 3D World
XCOM: Enemy Within
The Last of Us Travis McIntosh
Naughty Dog
2014 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
FIFA 15
Mario Kart 8 (Yusuke Shiraiwa)
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Yuji Ogaito)
The Wolf Among Us (Dennis Lenart)
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die Levente Verõ
Access Games
2015 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Batman: Arkham Knight (Francesco Sternativo)
Fallout 4
Mortal Kombat X (Dominic Cianciolo)
The Order: 1886 (Chad Verrall)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Paweł Świerczyński
CD Projekt Red
2016 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Chronos
Dishonored 2 (Damien Pougheon)
Final Fantasy XV (Hajime Tabata)
Republique
Inside Arnt Jensen
Playdead
2017 Camera Direction in a Game Engine
Call of Duty: WWII
Gravity Rush 2
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
What Remains of Edith Finch
Nier: Automata N/A
Platinum Games


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Character Design
Conker’s Bad Fur Day (Don Murphy)
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (John Paik)
Final Fantasy X (Tetsuya Nomura)
Ico (Chika Fukui, Kazuhiro Numata, Mitsuhiro Shimooki, Fumito Ueda)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee N/A
Oddworld Inhabitants
2002 Character Design
Animal Crossing (Noriko Ikegawa, Yoshihisa Morimoto)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Ian McQue)
Kingdom Hearts (Tetsuya Nomura)
Metroid Prime (Chuck Crist, Don Hogan, Andrew Jones, Gene Kohler Jr., Ryan Powell, Elizabeth Foster, Luis Ramirez, Danny Richardson, Alejandro Roura, Elben Schafers, LeRoy Strauss)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus N/A
Sucker Punch Productions
2003 Character Design
Deus Ex: Invisible War
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Ryūji Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Oyama, Keisuke Nishimori, Yo Ohnishi, Koji Takahashi, Daisuke Kageyama)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Voodoo Vince (Doug Williams)
Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball Yasushi Nakakura, Hideyuki Kato, Muneaki Kubota, Haruhiko Shikata, Akiko Matsui
Tecmo
2004 Character Design
Fable (Ian Yarwood-Lovett)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Takanari Tajima, Koichi Ebe, Keiichiro Takahashi, Ryotaro Takahashi, Tasuku Tsuchiya, Yoshio Yamakawa)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Ian McQue)
Pikmin 2
Viewtiful Joe 2 Kumiko Suekane
Capcom
2005 Character Design
Destroy All Humans!
God of War (Dave Matthews)
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Psychonauts (Scott Campbell, Peter Chan)
Shadow of the Colossus Shunpei Suzuki, Hitoshi Niwa, Atsuko Fukuyama, Fumito Ueda

Team Ico
2006 Character Design
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Hiu Lai Chong, Josh Jones, Gary L. Noonan, Hugh Riley, Juan Sanchez)
Final Fantasy XII (Akihiko Yoshida)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Yggdra Union (Satoko Kiyuduki)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy William Thompson (ewp)
Traveller's Tales
2007 Character Design
God of War II (Louis Lu (Lead), Kevin Anderson, Go Woon Choi, Ken Huynh, Erik San Juan)
Heavenly Sword (Laura Kippax)
Overlord
PaRappa the Rapper
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Chris Robinson
Blizzard Entertainment
2008 Character Design
Chrono Trigger (Akira Toriyama)
Fable II
Grand Theft Auto IV (Michael Kane, Alan Nolan, Alisdair Wood, Chris Brincat, Gordon Brown, Toks Solarin, Findlay McGechie)
Little Big Planet
Castle Crashers Jeff Bandelin, Dan Paladin

The Behemoth
2009 Character Design
Afro Samurai (Damian Kim, Kyoon Lee, Josh Tiefer)
Brütal Legend (Raymond Crook, Mike Fudge, David Gardner, Stephen Gregory, Mark Hamer, Tyler Hurd, Ruel Pascual, Christine Phelan, Elliott Roberts, David Russell, Chris Schultz)
inFamous
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Batman: Arkham Asylum Andrew Coombes
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Character Design
Darksiders (Gray Ginther)
God of War III (Patrick Murphy)
Heavy Rain (Thierry Prodhomme)
Mass Effect 2 (Jaemus Wurzbach)
Red Dead Redemption Denis Cawson
Rockstar San Diego
2011 Character Design
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Koki Kinoshita)
The Gunstringer
Stacking Dave Russell
Double Fine Productions
2012 Character Design
Dishonored (Florence Lapalu)
Journey
Mass Effect 3 (Rodrigue Pralier, Jaemus Wurzbach)
The Darkness II (Michael Brennan)
The Walking Dead (Steven Moore)
Skullgirls Alex Ahad Reverge Labs
2013 Character Design
Grand Theft Auto V (Alan Nolan, Ben Clark, Chris Brincat, Jamie-Lee Lloyd, Stuart Hansell, Toks Solarin)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Kenichiro Yoshimura, Yonghee Cho)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Toshihiro Kuriaki)
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 – Faith (Jason Findley)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Patrick Lambert
Ubisoft
2014 Character Design
Assassin's Creed Unity (Vincent Gaigneux, Patrick Lambert, Remko Troost)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Destiny (Shi Kai Wang/Shiek Wang)
Transistor (Jen Zee)
Bayonetta 2 Mari Nishimura, Yusuke Hashimoto, Eiichi Shimizu
PlatinumGames
2015 Character Design
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Mathieu Cornille, Taissa Abdoullina)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Albert Feliu Gomis)
Evolve (Vidonm Medina, Jon Finch, Cochey Cantu)
Fallout 4 (Ben Carnow, Lucas Hardi, Charles Kim, Christiane H. K. Meister, Dennis Mejillones, Dane Olds, Yan Qin)
Life Is Strange Kenny Laurent
Dontnod Entertainment
2016 Character Design
Dishonored 2 (Jean-Luc Monnet)
DOOM (Jason Martin)
The Last Guardian (Yutaro Sakai)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Frank Tzeng)
Overwatch Renaud Galand
Blizzard Entertainment
2017 Character Design
Horizon Zero Dawn
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Nier: Automata
Persona 5
Cuphead N/A Studio MDHR


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Control Design
Grand Theft Auto III (Adam Fowler, Obbe Vermeij)
Halo (Chris Butcher, Bernie Freidin, Charles Gough, Mat Noguchi, Matt Segur, Eamon McKenzie, Stefan Sinclair, Ben Wallace)
Ico (Fumiaki Hara, Jinji Horagai)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Pikmin Hiroaki Takenaka, Masamichi Abe (ewp), Shigefumi Hino (ewp)
Nintendo
2002 Control Design
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Alexander Roger)
Metroid Prime (Mark Johnston)
Spider-Man: The Movie (Jason Bare)
Steel Battalion N/A
Capcom
2003 Control Design
Beyond Good & Evil
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Makoto Sasaki, Kenji Matsutani)
Tony Hawk's Underground
Viewtiful Joe
Wakeboarding Unleashed
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Jordan Mechner
Ubisoft
2004 Control Design
Katamari Damacy (Kazumi Yamabe)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Hideo Kojima)
Pikmin 2 (Yoshikazu Yamashita)
Spider-Man 2
Viewtiful Joe 2 (Noriyuki Ohtani)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves Nate Fox
Sucker Punch Productions
2005 Control Design
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Chris Cudahy)
Nintendogs
Shadow of the Colossus (Jinji Horagai)
We Love Katamari (Kazumi Yamabe)
Guitar Hero John Tam
Harmonix
2006 Control Design
Company of Heroes (Drew Dunlop)
Gears of War (Ray Davis)
LocoRoco (Seiji Sasaki, Daichi Honda)
Ōkami (Ryuta Takahashi)
Tokobot Plus: Mysteries of the Karakuri (Masaki Shibuya, Takayuki Shigematsu, Takeki Kaifuku, Hiroyuki Nishi, Haruhisa Itou)
Wii Sports Junji Morii (ewp)
Nintendo
2007 Control Design
Assassin's Creed (Richard Dumas)
Heavenly Sword (John Lusty)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Masahiro Nitta, Eiji Nishikawa)
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (Sarah Yang)
Super Mario Galaxy Yasuhiko Matsuzaki, Mei Ide
Nintendo
2008 Control Design
Little Big Planet (Amy Phillips, Anton Kirczenow, Allan Robertson, James Fairbairn, Jonny Hopper, Luke Petre, Matt Willis, Anthony Yu, Paul Holden)
Mirror's Edge (Mikael Lagré, Kjell Reuterswärd, Martin Wester, Johan Åkesson)
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword (Tetsuo Yamamoto)
Tom Clancy's EndWar (Gu Yu)
Boom Blox Mark Burroughs, Josh Leyshock, Chris DeLeon, Tamar Zeithlian
EA Los Angeles
2009 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
A Boy and His Blob (Larry Holdaway)
DJ Hero
Klonoa (Eiji Akahori)
Trials HD
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Mei Ide, Yoshifumi Masaki, Satoko Okada
Nintendo
2009 Control Design, 3D
Assassin's Creed II
Flower
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Erik Touve)
inFamous
Batman: Arkham Asylum Bill Green, Magali Stretton, Jim Whitworth
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
DJ Hero 2 (Alex Zoro)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Yuhei Matsuda, Naoya Abe, Yuji Shibata, Yasuhiro Masuoka, Keita Sakunaga, Satoshi Kobayashi, Kazunobu Sameshima, Tomonori Kowari)
Pinball FX 2
Super Street Fighter IV (Takuo Katsura, Hideaki Maruyama, Masafumi Taketoshi, Yuki Kabashima, Seiichi Yamaguchi)
Super Meat Boy Tommy Refenes Team Meat
2010 Control Design, 3D
Disney Epic Mickey (Gabriel Farris)
Heavy Rain (Jean-Charles Perrier)
Just Cause 2 (Andreas Nilsson, Ragnar Svensson, Lena Fernqvist, Rickard Granfeldt)
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Atsutomo Nakagawa)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Katsuyasu Ando, Norihiro Aoyagi, Hideyuki Sugawara, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Ota, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Kazuya Sumaki, Wataru Tanaka)
Vanquish (Kiyohiko Sakata, Shuichiro Chiboshi)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Steven Masters
Ubisoft Montreal
2011 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
Anomaly: Warzone Earth (Barlomiej Walecki)
Child of Eden (Yoshio Inoue)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Paul Holden)
Rayman Origins (David Punset Martínez)
Kung-Fu High Impact N/A Virtual Air Guitar Company
2011 Control Design, 3D
Bulletstorm (Lukasz Migas)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Gears of War 3 (Joe Graf)
Portal 2
Batman: Arkham City Bill Green, Ashraf Mohammad, Keith Nakamura, Magali Stretton, Jim Whitworth, Anthony Wicker, James Wicker
Rocksteady Studios
2012 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
Escape Plan
Mark of the Ninja
New Super Mario Bros. U (Keigo Nakanishi)
Soulcalibur V (Danielle Hunt)
Street Fighter X Tekken (Takuo Katsura)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Mark of the Ninja Nels Anderson
Klei Entertainment
2012 Control Design, 3D
Halo 4 (Scott Stevens)
Resident Evil 6 (Soji Seta)
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers (Christian Niemand, Sebastian Schulz, Johannes Spohr, Philipp Beau, Alexander Gerb, Alexander Jahl)
ZombiU (Guillaume Sauveur)
Far Cry 3 Jamie Keen
Ubisoft Montreal
2013 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
Badland (Johannes Vuorinen)
Civilization V: Brave New World (Ken Grey)
Dragon's Crown (Kentaro Ohnishi, Takafumi Noma, Hajime Neya, Takehiro Yamamoto, Teruhisa Kanayama, Yuya Uenishi)
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Rayman Legends Emile Morel
Ubisoft
2013 Control Design, 3D
Batman: Arkham Origins (Olivier Pomarez)
Beyond: Two Souls (Jean-Charles Perrier)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Michael Wasilewski)
The Last of Us Ian Jones
Naughty Dog
2014 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
EyePlay
Leo's Fortune
Magic 2015 - Duels of the Planeswalkers
OlliOlli (John Ribbins)
Super Smash Bros N/A
HAL Laboratory, Inc.
2014 Control Design, 3D
Bayonetta 2 (Mai Ohkura)
Destiny (David Candland)
Infamous Second Son (Nate Fox)
Watch Dogs (Kevin Guillemette)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Bob Roberts
Monolith Productions
2015 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)
Super Mario Maker Satoko Okada
Nintendo
2015 Control Design, 3D
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (Carl Granberg)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Noriaki Okamura)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Yuichi Yamamoto, Kenji Matsutani)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Dan-Marian Voinescu, Yaroslav Getsevich, Fernando Forero, Vladimir Vilimovsky, Bartosz Bigaj)
Splatoon N/A
Nintendo
2016 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
Headlander
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
Severed
Unravel
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 N/A
Bandai Namco Entertainment
2016 Control Design, 3D
Abzu
Dishonored 2 (Dinga Bakaba)
Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
DOOM Peter Sokal
id Software
2016 Control Design, VR
Eagle Flight
Eve: Valkyrie
House of the Dying Sun
RIGS: Mechanized Combat League (Clay Fowler)
Superhot VR N/A Superhot Team
2017 Control Design, 2D or Limited 3D
1-2-Switch
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Hidden Agenda
Matterfall
Metroid: Samus Returns N/A
Nintendo, Mercury Steam, Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
2017 Control Design, 3D
Assassin's Creed Origins
Gravity Rush 2
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey N/A
Nintendo
2017 Control Design, VR
Fallout 4 VR
Farpoint
Skyrim VR
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard N/A
Capcom


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Control Precision
Devil May Cry (Kazunori Inoue)
Jak and Daxter
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Halo Chris Butcher, Bernie Freidin, Charles Gough, Mat Noguchi, Matt Segur, Eamon McKenzie, Stefan Sinclair, Ben Wallace
Bungie
2002 Control Precision
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Doug Tooley)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Alexander Roger)
MechAssault (Daniel Broder, Noel Llopis, David McKibbin, Scott D. Ramsay, Robert Riebau, Michael Springer, Ned Way, Brian Whooley)
Metroid Prime (Mark Johnston)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Antoine Dodens)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 N/A
Neversoft
2003 Control Precision
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (Jim Napier)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Claude Langlais)
Top Spin (Pierre Adane, Ludovic Balsan, Laurent Caumont, Laurent Gorga, Xavier Lemaire, Fabrice Monerie, Cyril Tissier, Samuel Toulouse, Olivier Bucher, Christophe Lallement, Pierre Portal)
Soul Calibur II Shinobu Nimura, Yoshihito Iwanaga, Takashi Koshigoe, Tadashi Obama, Masaaki Hoshino, Hiroyuki Kobota, Ken Matsumoto, Junji Hata, Shoichi Isowaki, Sei Nakatani, Hidenori Iwakiri
Namco
2004 Control Precision
Burnout 3: Takedown (Richard Parr)
Pikmin 2 (Yoshikazu Yamashita)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Michael Ryssen)
Viewtiful Joe 2 (Noriyuki Ohtani)
Ninja Gaiden N/A
Team Ninja
2005 Control Precision
Guitar Hero (Philip Winston)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Charles Jacob)
Resident Evil 4 (Kiyohiko Sakata)
We Love Katamari (Kazumi Yamabe)
Gran Turismo 4 Akihiko Tan
Polyphony Digital
2006 Control Precision
Elite Beat Agents (Robert Ota Dieterich)
Gears of War (Ray Davis)
LocoRoco (Seiji Sasaki, Daichi Honda)
Tomb Raider: Legend (Rob Pavey)
Guitar Hero II James Wiley Fleming, Dan Schmidt, Marc Flury (ewp)
Harmonix
2007 Control Precision
Heavenly Sword (John Lusty)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Masahiro Nitta, Eiji Nishikawa)
Rock Band (James Wiley Fleming)
Super Mario Galaxy (Hideaki Shimizu)
The Orange Box N/A
Valve Corporation
2008 Control Precision
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Boom Blox (Jeff Dixon)
Mirror's Edge (Mikael Lagré, Kjell Reuterswärd, Martin Wester, Johan Åkesson)
PixelJunk Eden
World of Goo Ron Carmel, Allan Blomquist 2D Boy
2009 Control Precision
Flower
Prototype (Bryan Brandt, Chris Cudahy, Kevin Coughlan)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Pål-Kristian Engstad, Travis McIntosh, Dan Liebgold)
inFamous Nate Fox, Bruce Oberg
Sucker Punch Productions
2010 Control Precision
Halo: Reach (Petar Kotevski)
Pinball FX 2
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Katsuyasu Ando, Norihiro Aoyagi, Hideyuki Sugawara, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Ota, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Kazuya Sumaki, Wataru Tanaka)
Super Meat Boy Tommy Refenes Team Meat
2011 Control Precision
Dead Space 2 (Sylvain Martel)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Hiroshi Umemiya)
Rayman Origins (Sarang Vaidya)
Super Mario 3D Land (Norihiro Aoyagi, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Ota, Hideyuki Sugawara, Hideyuki Tatsuta, Hirokazu Matsuda, Katsuyasu Ando, Kazuhiro Musa, Kiyoshi Takeuchi)
Portal 2 N/A
Valve Corporation
2012 Control Precision
Borderlands 2
Fez
New Super Mario Bros. U (Renaud Bédard)
Street Fighter X Tekken (Takuo Katsura)
Wipeout 2048
New Super Mario Bros. U N/A
Nintendo
2013 Control Precision
BattleBlock Theater
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Jim Bulvan, Mark Inglis)
Killzone: Mercenary
Rayman Legends
Tomb Raider Steve Austin
Crystal Dynamics
2014 Control Precision
Bayonetta 2 (Shuichiro Chiboshi)
Luftrausers (Jan Willem Nijman)
Super Smash Bros
Titanfall (Earl Hammon Jr.)
Destiny Peter Mielcarski
Bungie
2015 Control Precision
Batman: Arkham Knight (Andrew Mattingly)
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Alexander Conserva, Peter Livingstone)
Halo 5: Guardians (Tom Burdak, Matt Dalby, David R. Garza II, Leonard Holman, Gareth Lough, Adam Zakowicz, Richard Le (MAQ LLC), Bryce Mercado (Ciber))
Ori and the Blind Forest (Gennadiy Korol)
Rocket League N/A
Psyonix
2016 Control Precision
Battlefield 1
Dishonored 2 (Dinga Bakaba)
Forza Horizon 3 (Chris Phillips, Marco Conti)
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
DOOM Billy Ethan Khan
id Software
2017 Control Precision
Horizon Zero Dawn
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Sonic Mania
Super Mario Odyssey
Cuphead N/A Studio MDHR


Costume Design











































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Costume Design
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (John Paik)
Final Fantasy X (Tetsuya Nomura)
Ico (Chika Fukui, Kazuhiro Numata, Mitsuhiro Shimooki, Fumito Ueda)
Onimusha: Warlords (Satoshi Takamatsu, Takahiro Kawano, Hiroshi Nakamura, Fuminori Satou, Kenichiro Yoshimura, Yoshinori Matsushita)
Devil May Cry Makoto Tsuchibayashi
Capcom
2002 Costume Design
Animal Crossing (Noriko Ikegawa, Yoshihisa Morimoto)
Mark of Kri
Resident Evil Zero (Koji Ishida, Shin Yuasa, Gen Kobayashi, Toru Nakazawa, Kenichiro Yoshimura, Yoshinori Matsushita)
Shinobi (Makoto Tsuchibayashi)
Kingdom Hearts
Tetsuya Nomura, Fumi Nakashima, Tomoyuki Sato, Takuya Iwasaki, Mihoko Ishii

Square Enix
2003 Costume Design
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Devil May Cry 2 (Hakuei, Tatsuya Ohshima, M. Kondo, Kozono, Koki.k, Emiko Watanabe, YU‑SUKE, RVT 1000R)
Soulcalibur II (Hiroaki Kado, Akira Nakajima, Seidou Ozawa, Hideo Yoshie, Shizuka Shiino, Hirokazu Takeda, Tomoko Imura, Mikiko Ichinose)
Final Fantasy X-2
Tetsuya Nomura, Tetsu Tsukamoto

Square Enix
2004 Costume Design
BloodRayne 2 (Scott Wetterschneider)
Fable (Ian Yarwood-Lovett)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Takuji Sasaki, Takuo Ueda, Junichi Fujita)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Tania Bureau-Civil, Benoit Regimbal Cote, Martin Fontaine, Matthew Kresge, Nicolas Oroc)
Shadow Hearts: Covenant Miyako Kato
Nautilus
2005 Costume Design
Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (Kyoko Saitou)
Jade Empire
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Jeff Goslan)
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Kazuma Kaneko
Capcom
2006 Costume Design
Final Fantasy XII (Akihiko Yoshida)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Shaun Absher, Heikki Anttila, Alessandro Baldasseroni, Ian Joyner, Alexandre Litchinko, Laurent Pierlot, David Stinnett)
N3: Ninety-Nine Nights
Suikoden V (Kaori Fujita, Riya Hozmi, Subzero Kizaki, Mikisato, Kazuhiro)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Christiane Meister
Bethesda Game Studios
2007 Costume Design
Assassin's Creed (Mathieu Aerni, Benoit Carrière, Véronique Fortin, Patrick Gagné, David Giraud, Ian Ladouceur, Michel Thibault)
GrimGrimoire (Kouichi Maenou, George Kamitani)
Heavenly Sword (Laura Kippax)
Odin Sphere
Eternal Sonata N/A
tri-Crescendo
2008 Costume Design
Disgaea 3: Absence of JusticeLost Odyssey (Takehiko Inoue)
Soul Calibur IV (Hideo Yoshie)
The World Ends with You (Gen Kobayashi)
Fable II Jamie Durrant
Lionhead Studios
2009 Costume Design
Assassin's Creed II (Michel Thibault)
Brütal Legend (Raymond Crook, Mike Fudge, David Gardner, Stephen Gregory, Mark Hamer, Tyler Hurd, Ruel Pascual, Christine Phelan, Elliott Roberts, David Russell, Chris Schultz)
Demon's Souls (Makoto Satoh, Masato Miyazaki)
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Robert Frye)
Batman: Arkham Asylum Andrew Coombes
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Costume Design
Bayonetta (Mari Shimazaki)
Darksiders (Gray Ginther)
Final Fantasy XIII (Nao Ikeda, Isao Ōishi, Mihoko Ishii)
Red Dead Redemption (Denis Cawson)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Anais Bernabe, Remi Farjaud, Johan Grenier, Antoine Rol
Ubisoft Montreal
2012 Costume Design
Assassin's Creed III (Ed Hardison IV)
Asura's Wrath (Yusuke Tokitsu)
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Yusuke Naora)
Mass Effect 3 (Rodrigue Pralier, Jaemus Wurzbach)
WWE '13 N/A
Yuke's
2013 Costume Design
Batman: Arkham Origins (Jay Evans)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Toshihiro Kuriaki)
Ryse: Son of Rome (Abdenour Bachir, Lars Martinsson, Hyejin Moon, Min-Chih Wang)
Total War: Rome II
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Patrick Lambert
Ubisoft
2014 Costume Design
Assassin's Creed Unity (Vincent Gaigneux, Patrick Lambert, Remko Troost)
Bayonetta 2 (Mari Nishimura, Yusuke Hashimoto, Eiichi Shimizu)
Infamous Second Son (Horia Dociu, Neal Hanson, Levi Hopkins, Susan Luo)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Paul Tumelaire)
Dragon Age: Inquisition Matt Rhodes
BioWare
2015 Costume Design
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Mathieu Cornille, Taissa Abdoullina)
Fallout 4 (Ben Carnow, Lucas Hardi, Charles Kim, Christiane H. K. Meister, Dennis Mejillones, Dane Olds, Yan Qin)
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
The Order: 1886 (Adam Skutt)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Paweł Mielniczuk
CD Projekt Red
2016 Costume Design
Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book (Masayoshi Wada, Atsushi Saito, Akihisa Kuramochi, Tsutomu Terada)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Brian Horton, Aaron Beck)
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine (Pawel Mielniczuk)
Dishonored 2 Jean-Baptiste Ferder, Florence Lapalu
Arkane Studios
2017 Costume Design
Assassin's Creed Origins
Gravity Rush 2
Skyrim for Switch
Persona 5 N/A
Atlus, P Studio


Direction in a Game Cinema



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Direction in a Game Cinema
Devil May Cry (Hideki Kamiya)
Final Fantasy X (Motomu Toriyama (event), Takayoshi Nakazato (map), Toshiro Tsuchida (battle))
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Farzad Varahramyan)
Onimusha: Warlords (Shimako Sato, Ryu Kaneda)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty So Toyota (ewp), Kyle Cooper (ewp), Ellerey Gave (ewp), Jennifer Gallo (ewp), Asa Hammond (ewp), Ben Lopez (ewp), Christian Severin (ewp)
Konami
2002 Direction in a Game Cinema
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Kingdom Hearts (Tetsuya Nomura)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City N/A
Rockstar North
2003 Direction in a Game Cinema
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Saku Lehtinen, Tommi Anttila)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Ron Martin)
Silent Hill 3 (Kazuhide Nakazawa)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (David Hibbeln)
XIII (Nathalie Nogard-Moschetti)
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun Barry Jackson, Chris Silagyi
Electronic Arts
2004 Direction in a Game Cinema
Doom 3 (James Houska, Fred Nilsson, Eric Webb)
Fable
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Director's Cut (Daisuke Inari)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Minoru Nakai)
Halo 2 Joseph Staten
Bungie
2005 Direction in a Game Cinema
God of War (Allan Becker)
Indigo Prophecy (David Cage)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Mathieu Latulippe)
Ultimate Spider-Man
Psychonauts Tim Schafer
Double Fine Productions
2006 Direction in a Game Cinema
Dead Rising (Yoshinori Kawano)
Gears of War (Chan Park, Joseph McGuffin, Robert Castaneda)
Ōkami (Hideki Kamiya)
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Final Fantasy XII Eiji Fujii
Square Enix
2007 Direction in a Game Cinema
God of War II (Cory Barlog)
Halo 3 (CJ Cowan)
Heavenly Sword (Saul Metzstein)
Hellgate: London (Phil Shenk)
BioShock Ken Levine
2K Boston
2008 Direction in a Game Cinema
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Jeramy Cooke)
Dead Space
Dynasty Warriors 6
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Martin Stoltz)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Hideo Kojima
Kojima Productions
2009 Direction in a Game Cinema
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Sefton Hill)
Brütal Legend (Tim Schafer)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Jason West)
Resident Evil 5 (Jim Sonzero, Toshio Ohashi (Polygon Pictures Inc.))
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Amy Hennig
Naughty Dog
2010 Direction, Game Cinema
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Sylvain Bernard)
Final Fantasy XIII (Motomu Toriyama)
God of War III (Stig Asmussen)
Mass Effect 2
Heavy Rain David Cage
Quantic Dream
2011 Direction in a Game Cinema
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Catherine (Katsura Hashino)
Dead Space 2
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Adam Badowski)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Taylor Kurosaki, Kion Phillips, Marianne Hayden, Keith Paciello
Naughty Dog
2012 Direction in a Game Cinema
Far Cry 3 (Robert Darryl Purdy)
Lego The Lord of the Rings (Jon Burton, James McLoughlin)
Mass Effect 3
Max Payne 3
Resident Evil 6 (Masanori Kobayashi, Ken Ohara)
Assassin's Creed III David Wilkinson
Ubisoft Montreal
2013 Direction in a Game Cinema
Dead Space 3 (Beth Pielert)
God of War: Ascension (Todd Papy)
Lost Planet 3 (Matthew Sophos)
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 – Faith (Dennis Lenart)
The Last of Us Shaun Escayg
Naughty Dog
2014 Direction in a Game Cinema
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Tim Golem, Nathan Zufelt)
Far Cry 4 (Sébastien Bergeron)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Christian Cantamessa)
The Wolf Among Us Dennis Lenart
Telltale Games
2015 Direction in a Game Cinema
Fallout 4
Life Is Strange
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Takaaki Yamagishi)
The Order: 1886 (Pablo Chavez)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Paweł Świerczyński
CD Projekt Red
2016 Direction in a Game Cinema
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Brian Horton, Jeffrey Keith Negus)
Dishonored 2 (Harvey Smith)
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (David Brown, Phil Gray)
Quantum Break (Saku Lehtinen)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Bruce Straley, Neil Druckmann

Naughty Dog
2017 Direction in a Game Cinema
Gravity Rush 2
Horizon Zero Dawn
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Persona 5 N/A
Atlus, P Studio


Direction in Virtual Reality



























Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2016 Direction in Virtual Reality
Adr1ft
Edge of Nowhere

Here They Lie
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood


Batman: Arkham VR Adam Doherty
Rocksteady Studios
2017 Direction in Virtual Reality Fallout 4 VR
Farpoint
Lone Echo
Skyrim VR
Star Trek: Bridge Crew TBD
Red Storm Entertainment


Game Design



























































































































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game Design
Grand Theft Auto III (Craig Filshie, William Mills, Chris Rothwell, James Worrall)
Halo (John Howard)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Hideo Kojima)
Pikmin (Yutaka Hiramuki, Tetsuya Nakata, Katsuhito Nishimura, Yuzuru Ogawa, Yoshikazu Yamashita)
Ico Fumito Ueda
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2002 Game Design
Animal Crossing
James Bond 007: NightFire (Bill Beacham, Andrew Collins, Gareth Glover, Kev Harrison, Aaron Jenkins)
Metroid Prime (Mark Pacini)
Ratchet & Clank (Brian Allgeier)
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs (Graham Keys)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Andrew Duthie, Craig Filshie, William Mills, Chris Rothwell, Imran Sarwar, James Worrall, John Haime
Rockstar North
2003 Game Design
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Jordan Mechner)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (David Falkner, Steven Gilmour, Casey Hudson
Drew Karpyshyn
James Ohlen, Preston Watamaniuk, Derek Watts)
The Simpsons: Hit & Run (Debi Laezman)
Beyond Good & Evil
Michel Ancel, Jean-Sebastien Morin, Bertrand Israël, Francois Emery, Jean-Francois Le Quéré, Nicolas Carré, Mehdi Daou El Makane, Mohamed Gambouz, Vincent Monnier, Mounir Riday, Nicolas Soulier

Ubisoft
2004 Game Design
Fable (Peter Molyneux, Dene Carter, Ben Huskins, Mark Webley)
Katamari Damacy (Masatoshi Ogita)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Kevin Guillemette)
Rome: Total War (Robert T. Smith, Mike Brunton, Michael de Plater, Jamie Ferguson, Chris Gambold)
The Sims 2 (Matthew M. Brown)
Half-Life 2 N/A
Valve Corporation
2005 Game Design
Nintendogs
Resident Evil 4 (Hiroshi Shibata, Koji Kakae, Shigenori Nishikawa)
The Movies (Adrian Moore)
We Love Katamari (Masatoshi Ogita, Takako Maeda, Akihiro Takano, Kazunori Okanaka)
Shadow of the Colossus
Fumito Ueda, Junichi Hosono

Team Ico
2006 Game Design
Dead Rising
Final Fantasy XII (Takeshi Iwabuchi, Masahiro Kataoka)
New Super Mario Bros. (Masataka Takemoto, Yasuhisa Yamamura, Kosono Okina, Haruka Kakinuma, Shinya Hiratake)
Ōkami
Gears of War
Cliff Bleszinski, Lee Perry

Epic Games
2007 Game Design
BioShock (Paul Hellquist)
Crush (Alex Butterfield)
Mass Effect (Preston Watamaniuk)
Super Mario Galaxy (Shigeru Miyamoto)
The Ship (Simon Hill, Duncan Blair)
The Orange Box N/A
Valve Corporation
2008 Game Design
Left 4 Dead
Mirror's Edge (Thomas Andersson)
Patapon (Hiroyuki Kotani)
Spore (Alex Hutchinson)
Little Big Planet
Mark Healey, David Smith, Craig Kerrison, Victor Ågren

Media Molecule
2009 Game Design
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke)
inFamous
Left 4 Dead 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Richard Lemarchand, Neil Druckmann)
Batman: Arkham Asylum Ian Bell
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Game Design, Franchise
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Steven Masters)
BioShock 2 (Mathieu Bérube, Allen Goode (downloadable content), Tom Galt (downloadable content))
Red Dead Redemption (Silas Morse, Alan Blaine, Kris Roberts)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Kenta Motokura)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Michael Heiberg, Matthew Morris
Blizzard Entertainment
2010 Game Design, New IP
Epic Mickey (Robert Chase Jones)
Limbo (Jeppe Carlsen)
Super Meat Boy (Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes)
Vanquish (Masaaki Yamada, Shigenori Nishikawa, Junichi Oka)
Heavy Rain Sophie Buhl, Caroline Marchal
Quantic Dream
2011 Game Design, Franchise
Batman: Arkham City (Ian Ball)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games)
Portal 2
Rayman Origins (Mihnea Ilicevici)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Bruce Nesmith
Bethesda Game Studios
2011 Game Design, New IP
Bastion (Amir Rao, Greg Kasavin)
From Dust (Denis Muffat-Méridol)
Frozen Synapse (Ian Hardingham)
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (Takayuki Isobe, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Hisashi Natsumura)
SpaceChem Zach Barth Zachtronics Industries
2012 Game Design, Franchise
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Joseph Chiang)
Far Cry 3 (Kevin Guillemette, Jamie Keen, Andrea Zanini)
Mass Effect 3 (Preston Watamaniuk)
New Super Mario Bros. 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Ananda Gupta)
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Assassin's Creed III Steven Masters
Ubisoft Montreal
2012 Game Design, New IP
Dokuro
Fez (Phil Fish)
Journey (Anna White, Christopher Cabcabin, Philip Ilatovsky)
Mark of the Ninja (Nels Anderson)
Sound Shapes
Xenoblade Chronicles (Koh Kojima)
Dishonored Christophe Carrier
Arkane Studios
2011 Game Design, Classic Revival
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Chad Armstrong)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Ōkamiden Atsushi Inaba Mobile & Game Studio, Inc.
2013 Game Design, Franchise
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Eric Baptizat)
Super Mario 3D World
XCOM: Enemy Within (Ananda Gupta)
Bioshock: Infinite Adrian Balanon, Forrest Dowling
Irrational Games
2013 Game Design, New IP
Antichamber (Alexander Bruce, Robin Arnott, Siddhartha Barnhoorn, Julian Bruce, Mike Blackney)
The Cave (Jean Paul LeBreton)
The Stanley Parable (William Pugh, Davey Wreden)
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 – Faith (Ryan Kaufman)
The Last of Us Bruce Straley
Naughty Dog
2014 Game Design, Franchise
Assassin's Creed Unity (Alexandre Pedneault)
Dark Souls II (Naotoshi Zin)
Far Cry 4 (Gauthier Malou)
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Hideo Kojima)
Dragon Age: Inquisition Mike Laidlaw
BioWare
2014 Game Design, New IP
Destiny (James McQuillan)
Monument Valley (Ken Wong)
Super Time Force
Transistor (Amir Rao, Greg Kasavin)
This War of Mine Rafał Włosek, Michal Drozdowski
11 bit studios
2015 Game Design, Franchise
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Frédéric St-Laurent B.)
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Gavin Locke)
Fallout 4 (Emil Pagliarulo
Todd Howard)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Grzegorz Mocarski
CD Projekt Red
2015 Game Design, New IP
Bloodborne (Kazuhiro Hamatani)
Life Is Strange (Baptiste Moisan)
Pillars of Eternity (Joshua Eric Sawyer)
Undertale (Toby Fox)
Splatoon N/A
Nintendo
2016 Game Design, Franchise
Dishonored 2 (Dinga Bakaba)
Forza Horizon 3 (Martin Connor)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Kurt Margenau, Emilia Schatz, Anthony Newman, Richard Cambier)
XCOM 2 (Mark Nauta)
DOOM Peter Sokal
id Software
2016 Game Design, New IP
Dead by Daylight
Inside (Jeppe Carlsen)
Overwatch (David M. Adams, Michael Chu, Jeremy Craig, Geoff Goodman, Michael Heiberg, Scott Mercer)
Republique
The Last Guardian Fumito Ueda
SIE Japan Studio
2017 Game Design, Franchise
Nier: Automata
Persona 5
Sonic Mania
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey N/A
Nintendo
2017 Game Design, New IP
Friday the 13th: The Game
Gorogoa
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Little Nightmares
What Remains of Edith Finch
Horizon Zero Dawn Mathijs de Jonge
Guerrilla Games


Game Engineering



























































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2012 Game Engineering
Crush 3D (Peter Pimley)
Dragon's Dogma (Yoshiharu Nakao)
Mass Effect 3 (David Falkner)
Spelunky (Andrew Hull)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Casey O'Toole)
Trials Evolution Russell Allen
RedLynx
Ubisoft Shanghai
2013 Game Engineering
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Shinji Hatada)
Battlefield 4 (Erik Westerlund, Jonas Kjellström)
Disney Infinity
Fire Emblem: Awakening
XCOM: Enemy Within (Justin Boswell)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Daiki Iwamoto, Takuhiro Dohta, Hajime Suzuki
Nintendo
2014 Game Engineering
FIFA 15
FTL: Faster Than Light (Matthew Davis)
Infamous Second Son (Adrian Bentley)
Tengami (Phil Tossell)
Alien: Isolation Michael Bailey
Creative Assembly
2015 Game Engineering
Bloodborne (Ryu Matsumoto, Naoto Saigusa, Kazutoshi Nakajima, Tomoaki Takesue, Shinichiro Nishida, Takahiro Doi, Tomoki Otsuka)
Fallout 4 (Guy Carver)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Junji Tago)
Super Mario Maker (Yusaku Shimizu)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Balázs Török
CD Projekt Red
2016 Game Engineering
Dishonored 2 (Sylvain Praloix, Sylvain Been)
DOOM (Billy Ethan Khan)
Pokémon Go
Stellaris (Daniel Eriksson, Alexander Ivannikov, Mehrnaz Amanat Bari, Rikard Aslund, Joakim Bennedich)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Tyler Thornock
Naughty Dog
2017 Game Engineering
Divinity: Original Sin II
Gravity Rush 2
SteamWorld Dig 2
The Sexy Brutale
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Horizon Zero Dawn Michiel de Leeuw
Guerrilla Games


Game of the Year



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game of the Year
Devil May Cry (Masaaki Yamada, Joesuke Kaji)
Halo (Jason Jones)
Ico (Fumito Ueda)
Metal Gear Solid 2 Hideo Kojima
Pikmin (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Grand Theft Auto III
Leslie Benzies, Dan Houser, Jamie King, Renaud Sebbane, Gary J. Foreman, Jeremy Pope

DMA Design
2002 Game of the Year
Animal Crossing (Takashi Tezuka)
Metroid Prime (Michael Mann)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Wu Dong Hao)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Leslie Benzies, Dan Houser, Jeremy Pope, Jamie King

Rockstar North
2003 Game of the Year N/A Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time N/A
Ubisoft
2004 Game of the Year
Burnout 3: Takedown (Paul Cross, Chris Roberts)
Katamari Damacy (Masatoshi Ogita)
Ninja Gaiden (Tomonobu Itagaki)
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Grady Hunt)
Rome: Total War (Robert T. Smith, Mike Brunton, Michael de Plater, Jamie Ferguson, Chris Gambold)
Half-Life 2 N/A
Valve Corporation
2005 Game of the Year
Civilization IV (Soren Johnson)
God of War (David Jaffe)
Psychonauts (Tim Schafer)
Resident Evil 4 (Hiroshi Shibata, Koji Kakae, Shigenori Nishikawa)
Shadow of the Colossus
Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda

Team Ico
2006 Game of the Year
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Todd Howard)
Final Fantasy XII (Yasumi Matsuno)
Gears of War (Cliff Bleszinski)
LocoRoco (Tsutomu Kouno)
Viva Pinata (Gregg Mayles, Justin Cook, Gavin Price, Matthew Carter)
Ōkami Atsushi Inaba
Clover Studio
2007 Game of the Year
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Jason West)
Mass Effect (Casey Hudson)
Rock Band
Super Mario Galaxy (Shigeru Miyamoto)
The Orange Box
BioShock Alyssa Finley
2K Boston
2008 Game of the Year
Gears of War 2 (Cliff Bleszinski)
Left 4 Dead
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hideo Kojima)
Mirror's Edge (Tom Farrer)
Little Big Planet Luci Black, Martin Lynagh, Michelle Ducker, Claire Boissiere
Media Molecule
2009 Game of the Year
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Richard Lemarchand, Neil Druckmann)
Batman: Arkham Asylum Sefton Hill
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Game of the Year
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Steven Masters)
Darksiders (Timothy Bell)
Heavy Rain (David Cage)
Limbo (Arnt Jensen)
Mass Effect 2 (Casey Hudson)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Robert Pardo)
Red Dead Redemption Steve Martin, David Kunkler
Rockstar San Diego
2011 Game of the Year
Batman: Arkham City (Daniel Bailie, Nathan Burlow)
Battlefield 3 (Patrick Bach)
Catherine (Kazuhisa Wada)
Dark Souls (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bruce Nesmith)
Portal 2
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Richard Lemarchand, Jacob Minkoff)
Minecraft Markus Persson
Mojang
2012 Game of the Year
Borderlands 2
Far Cry 3 (Kevin Guillemette, Jamie Keen, Andrea Zanini)
Spec Ops: The Line (Cory Davis, François Coulon)
The Walking Dead (Sean Vanaman)
Torchlight II
Journey
Jenova Chen, Robin Hunicke

thatgamecompany
2013 Game of the Year
Battlefield 4 (Lars Gustavsson)
Bioshock: Infinite (Ken Levine)
Grand Theft Auto V (Leslie Benzies, Imran Sarwar)
Super Mario 3D World
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Eiji Aonuma)
Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes)
The Last of Us Bruce Straley
Naughty Dog
2014 Game of the Year
Far Cry 4 (Alex Hutchinson)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matt Allen)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Eric Stough, Bruce Howell, Adrien Beard)
Super Smash Bros.
Dragon Age: Inquisition Mike Laidlaw
BioWare
2015 Game of the Year
Batman: Arkham Knight (Sefton Hill)
Bloodborne (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Fallout 4 (Todd Howard)
Splatoon (Yusuke Amano, Tsubasa Sakaguchi)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, Piotr Krzywonosiuk
CD Projekt Red
2016 Game of the Year
Dark Souls III (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Inside (Arnt Jensen)
Pokémon Go
Stardew Valley (Eric Barone)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Bruce Straley, Neil Druckmann)
Overwatch Jeffrey Kaplan
Blizzard Entertainment
2017 Game of the Year
Horizon Zero Dawn (Angie Smets)
Nier: Automata
Persona 5 (Naoya Maeda)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Eiji Aonuma)
Super Mario Odyssey TBD
Nintendo


Game, Classic Revival



























































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2004 Game, Classic Revival
Classic NES Series: Metroid (Hirofumi Matsuoka, Yoshio Sakamoto)
Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Donkey Kong Country 2 (Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto)
Mega Man Anniversary Collection
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (Hideo Kojima)
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls
Masafumi Miyamoto, Hironobu Sakaguchi

Square Enix
2005 Game, Classic Revival
Capcom Classics Collection
Final Fantasy IV (Takashi Tokita)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
Wipeout Pure (Adam Shaikh)
Conker: Live & Reloaded Alison Stroll
Rare
2006 Game, Classic Revival
Bonk's Adventure
Gunstar Heroes
Metal Slug Anthology (Steve Mallory)
Tetris DS (Tomoyoshi Yamane, Naoko Okamoto, Yukio Mishima)
Final Fantasy III
Yoshinori Kitase, Hiroyuki Itou

Square Enix
2007 Game, Classic Revival
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (Takamasa Shiba)
Pac-Man Championship Edition (Nobutaka Nakajima)
Prince of Persia
Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Jason Botta)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Shinobu Toyoda, Masaharu Yoshii

Sonic Team
2008 Game, Classic Revival
Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (Yuji Horii)
Final Fantasy IV (Tomoya Asano)
Samba de Amigo
Space Invaders Extreme (Tomohito Yano)
Chrono Trigger Kazuhiko Aoki
Square Enix
2009 Game, Classic Revival
A Boy and His Blob (Matt Bozon)
Klonoa (Tsutomu Koganezawa, Makoto Yoshidumi, Yoshiyasu Horiuchi)
Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan Craig Derrick Lucasfilm Games
2010 Game, Classic Revival
DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Ron Gilbert)
Perfect Dark (Nick Ferguson)
Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary N/A
Nintendo
2011 Game, Classic Revival
Beyond Good & Evil HD (Wang Xu)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Oddworld Stranger's Wrath HD
Rayman 3D
Star Fox 64 3D (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Hamilton Chu
343 Industries
2012 Game, Classic Revival Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD Jet Set Radio HD Justyn McLean Blit Software
2013 Game, Classic Revival
DuckTales Remastered (Chris Watson)
Flashback (Paul Cuisset)
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded (Al Lowe, Josh Mandel)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Eiji Aonuma
Nintendo
2014 Game, Classic Revival
Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition (Éric Chahi)
Fable: Anniversary (Peter Molyneux)
Gabriel Knight 20th Anniversary Edition (Robert Holmes, John E. Grayson)
Pier Solar and the Great Architects (Tulio Adriano Gonçalves)
NES Remix 2 N/A
indieszero
2015 Game, Classic Revival
Grim Fandango Remastered (Tim Schafer)
Rare Replay
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D Shigeru Miyamoto
Grezzo
Nintendo
2016 Game, Classic Revival
Day of the Tentacle Remastered (Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman)
Master of Orion
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (Kentaro Ohnishi)
Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster (Koji Oda)
DOOM Marty Stratton
id Software
2017 Game, Classic Revival
Okami HD (Hiroshi Shibata)
Planescape: Torment
Yakuza Kiwami (Chris Avellone)
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Dan Tanguay
Vicarious Visions, Toys for Bob, Iron Galaxy


Game, eSports



































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2015 Game, eSports
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Heroes of the Storm
Killer Instinct Season 2
Mortal Kombat X
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Masahiro Sakurai
Bandai Namco Entertainment
2016 Game, eSports
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
Rocket League
Street Fighter V
Overwatch TBD
Blizzard Entertainment
2017 Game, eSports
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
League of Legends
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Overwatch TBD
Blizzard Entertainment


Game, Franchise Action



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Action
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Kōji Horie)
Crazy Taxi 2 (Kenji Kanno)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (Julian Eggebrecht)
Unreal Tournament (Peter Clark)
Grand Theft Auto III
Leslie Benzies, Dan Houser, Jamie King, Renaud Sebbane, Gary J. Foreman, Jeremy Pope

DMA Design
2002 Game, Franchise Action
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Todd Arnold, Sam Clifford)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Peter Hirschmann)
Metroid Fusion (Tomoyoshi Yamane, Takehiko Hosokawa)
Metroid Prime (Michael Mann)
TimeSplitters 2 (Stephen Ellis, David Doak)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Leslie Benzies, Dan Houser, Jeremy Pope, Jamie King

Rockstar North
2003 Game, Franchise Action
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (William Morrison)
Jak II
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Markus Maki, Kaweh Kazemi, Stefan Willixhofer, Hannes Seifert, Gregor Eigner (ewp), Frank Kern (ewp), Brandon Rose
Remedy Entertainment
2004 Game, Franchise Action
Doom 3 (Tim Willits)
Halo 2 (Jason Jones)
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Randy Thompson)
Viewtiful Joe 2 (Atsushi Inaba)
Half-Life 2 N/A
Valve Corporation
2005 Game, Franchise Action
Call of Duty 2 (Eric Riley)
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Eric Holmes)
Quake 4 (Eric C. Biessman)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Brian Reed)
Battlefield 2 Sean Decker
Digital Illusions
2006 Game, Franchise Action
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Hiroto Yamaguchi)
Daxter (Michael John)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Leslie Benzies)
Metroid Prime Hunters (Shigeki Yamashiro, Robert Champagne)
Half-Life 2: Episode One N/A
Valve Corporation
2007 Game, Franchise Action
God of War II (Cory Barlog)
Halo 3 (James McQuillan, Joseph Tung)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The Orange Box
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Jason West
Infinity Ward
2008 Game, Franchise Action
Battlefield: Bad Company (Karl-Magnus Troedsson)
Gears of War 2 (Cliff Bleszinski)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hideo Kojima)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky (Anton Bolshakov)
Grand Theft Auto IV
Leslie Benzies, Imran Sarwar, William Mills

Rockstar North
2009 Game, Franchise Action
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke)
Killzone 2 (Steven Ter Heide, Angie Smets)
Left 4 Dead 2
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Rick E. White)
Batman: Arkham Asylum Sefton Hill
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Game, Franchise Action
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Björn Johnsson, Anders Gyllenberg, John Hargelid)
BioShock 2
God of War III (Whitney Wade, Kenneth T. Roy)
Just Cause 2 (Daniel Willför)
Red Dead Redemption Steve Martin, David Kunkler
Rockstar San Diego
2011 Game, Franchise Action
Batman: Arkham City (Sefton Hill)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games)
Portal 2
Saints Row: The Third (Nick Lee)
Battlefield 3 Fredrik Loving, Sara Jansson
EA DICE
2012 Game, Franchise Action
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Cesar Stastny)
Far Cry 3 (Kevin Guillemette, Jamie Keen, Andrea Zanini)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (Ionuţ Grozea)
Prototype 2 (Matthew Armstrong)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Matt Krystek, Matt Bettelman, Jared Ellott, Keith Evans, Chris Pasetto, David Ruiz, Gabriel Sheets, J. R. Vosovic, Travis Wiglesworth)
Max Payne 3 Sergei Kuprejanov
Rockstar Games
2013 Game, Franchise Action
Batman: Arkham Origins (Eric Holmes)
Grand Theft Auto V (Leslie Benzies, Imran Sarwar)
Metro: Last Light (Viacheslav Aristov)
Saints Row IV
Bioshock: Infinite Mike Syrny
Irrational Games
2014 Game, Franchise Action
Bayonetta 2 (Atsushi Inaba)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Glen Schofield, Michael Condrey)
Far Cry 4 (Cedric Decelle)
Wolfenstein: The New Order (Lars Johansson)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Nathan Edson, Zeb Wedell
Monolith Productions
2015 Game, Franchise Action
Batman: Arkham Knight (Sefton Hill)
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Jason Blundell, Daniel Bunting)
Just Cause 3
Transformers: Devastation (Robert Conkey, Atsushi Inaba)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Hideo Kojima, Kenichirō Imaizumi

Kojima Productions
2016 Game, Franchise Action
Battlefield 1 (Aleksander Svendsen Grondal)
Dishonored 2 (Harvey Smith)
Hitman (Christian Elverdam)
Titanfall 2 (Steve Fukuda)
DOOM Marty Stratton
id Software
2017 Game, Franchise Action
Destiny 2 (Gavin Irby)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Koji Kanemori)
The Evil Within 2 (Shigenori Nishikawa)
Yakuza 0 (Koji Yoshida)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Jens Matthies
MachineGames


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Adventure
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (Shigeru Miyamoto, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamauchi)
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Shigeru Miyamoto, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamauchi)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, Lorne Lanning)
Silent Hill 2 (Akihiro Imamura)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Hideo Kojima
Konami
2002 Game, Franchise Adventure
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Resident Evil Zero (Takahiro Ushiroda, Takayoshi Miyake, Isamu Hara, Tomohiro Kida, Yasuhiro Itoge)
Shenmue II (Yu Suzuki)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Mathieu Ferland, Reid Schneider, Roxane Gosselin, Francois Coulon

Ubisoft
2003 Game, Franchise Adventure
Deus Ex: Invisible War (Ricardo Bare)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder (Richard Dansky)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Satoru Iwata)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Tron 2.0
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Yannis Mallat
Ubisoft
2004 Game, Franchise Adventure
Myst IV: Revelation (Patrick Fortier)
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Keiji Inafune)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Jean-Christophe Guyot)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Hideo Kojima, Yoshikazu Matsuhana

Konami
2005 Game, Franchise Adventure
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Tsuyoshi Tanaka)
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Jean-Christophe Guyot)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (André Roy)
Resident Evil 4 Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Capcom
2006 Game, Franchise Adventure
Broken Sword: The Angel of Death
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Jarl Schjerverud, Henning Solberg)
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Hideo Kojima)
Sam and Max: Episode 1 (Brendan Q. Ferguson, David Grossman, Steve Purcell)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Shigeru Miyamoto
Nintendo
2007 Game, Franchise Adventure
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (Matthew Tomporowski)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (Stig Fjeldheim)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Daiki Iwamoto, Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hidemaro Fujibayashi

Nintendo
2008 Game, Franchise Adventure
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Takeshi Yamazaki, Keisuke Yamakawa)
Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox (Mark Magdamit)
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst (Adrian Woods)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Eric Lajeunesse)
Prince of Persia Ben Mattes, Jamal Rguigui
Ubisoft Montreal
2009 Game, Franchise Adventure
Assassin's Creed II (Patrice Désilets)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Akihiro Hino)
Resident Evil 5 (Jun Takeuchi)
Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan (Joe Pinney, Sean Vanaman, David Grossman, Brendan Q. Ferguson, Jake Rodkin, Will Armstrong, Mark Darin, Michael Stemmle)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Bruce Straley
Naughty Dog
2010 Game, Franchise Adventure
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Daniel Neuburger, Daniel Bryner, Bryan Enriquez, Jeff Wajcs)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Hideo Kojima)
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Graeme Jennings)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Akihiro Hino)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Vincent Pontbriand-Trudel
Ubisoft Montreal
2011 Game, Franchise Adventure
Assassin's Creed Revelations (Alexandre Amancio)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (David Anfossi)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Ryuji Kobayashi)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Amy Hennig
Naughty Dog
2012 Game, Franchise Adventure
Resident Evil 6 (Jiro Taoka)
Resident Evil: Revelations
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (Kotaro Uchikoshi)
Assassin's Creed III Alex Hutchinson
Ubisoft Montreal
2013 Game, Franchise Adventure
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Martin Schelling)
The Walking Dead: 400 Days (Sean Ainsworth, Mark Darin, Harrison G. Pink)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Maxime Béland)
Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Hiromasa Shikata
Nintendo
2014 Game, Franchise Adventure
Assassin's Creed Unity (Antoine Vimal du Monteil, Philippe Ducharme)
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Hideo Kojima, Kenichirō Imaizumi)
The Walking Dead: Season Two Sara Guinness, Kirsten Kennedy
Telltale Games
2015 Game, Franchise Adventure Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 5 - The Vault of the Traveler Rise of the Tomb Raider Noah Hughes
Crystal Dynamics
2016 Game, Franchise Adventure
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice (Takeshi Yamazaki, Takuro Fuse)
Salt and Sanctuary (James Silva, Michelle Silva)
Watch Dogs 2
Zero Time Dilemma (Kotaro Uchikoshi)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Bruce Straley, Neil Druckmann

Naughty Dog
2017 Game, Franchise Adventure
Assassin's Creed Origins (Jean Guesdon)
Batman: The Enemy Within (Brett Tosti)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Luc Baghadoust)
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Shaun Escayg, Kurt Margenaun

Naughty Dog


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Family
Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
Mario Party 3 (Kenji Kikuchi)
Pokemon Crystal (Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Yamato, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tsunekazu Ishihara)
Wario Land 4 (Takehiro Izushi)
Klonoa 2 N/A
Namco
2002 Game, Franchise Family
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Tsuyoshi Wakayama)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords (Su Chol Lee, Mitsuaki Araki, Joko Kazuki)
Mario Party 4 (Fumihisa Sato)
Super Monkey Ball 2 (Toshihiro Nagoshi)
Super Mario Sunshine
Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka

Nintendo
2003 Game, Franchise Family
Ape Escape 2 (Hiromasa Ohkubo, Takahiro Okano, Hideyuki Ikeda, Teku Kobayashi, Hidekuni Sakai)
Kirby's Air Ride (Hiroaki Suga, Masayoshi Tanimura, Shigeru Miyamoto)
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Hiroyuki Jinnai, Takehiro Izushi, Hiroaki Tsuru)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo
2004 Game, Franchise Family
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Pikmin 2 (Shigeru Miyamoto
Takashi Tezuka)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Shigeru Miyamoto, Ryouichi Kitanishi
Intelligent Systems
2005 Game, Franchise Family
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Takashi Tezuka)
Kirby: Canvas Curse
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
WarioWare: Touched!
We Love Katamari Toshiya Hara, Hideki Tomida, Keita Takahashi

Namco
2006 Game, Franchise Family
Mega Man Powered Up (Hiroyuki Yamato, Yuujirou Hayakawa, Yusuke Tokita, Gentarou Tanzawa)
New Super Mario Bros. (Takashi Tezuka)
Nintendogs: Dalmation (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Yoshi's Island DS (Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Kōki Mogi, Ayae Hayashi, Shinichi Iida, Kou Okamoto, Atsushi Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Shimoda)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy Jon Burton
Traveller's Tales
2007 Game, Franchise Family
Cooking Mama: Cook Off (Joe McHale)
Super Paper Mario (Kensuke Tanabe, Ryouichi Kitanishi)
Super Mario Galaxy
Yoshiaki Koizumi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takao Shimizu

Nintendo
2008 Game, Franchise Family
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Takashi Tezuka)
Lego Batman: The Videogame (Kieran Gaynor)
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Paul Flanagan)
Mega Man 9 (Satoru Nishizawa, Ryota Ito, Satoshi Yazima)
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise Steven Brand
Rare
2009 Game, Franchise Family
Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Toshiharu Izuno, Akira Otani, Yoshihiko Maekawa)
Patapon 2
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Koji Takahashi, Koji Kitagawa)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Takashi Tezuka, Hiroyuki Kimura

Nintendo
2010 Game, Franchise Family
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Kazumasa Yonetani)
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 (Jon Burton)
Super Scribblenauts (Sean Wissler)
Toy Story 3: The Video Game (Linda Jo)
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka

Nintendo
2011 Game, Franchise Family
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Kengo Kurimoto)
Nintendogs + Cats
Rayman Origins (Michel Ancel)
Sonic Generations (Takashi Iizuka)
Super Mario 3D Land Yoshiaki Koizumi
Nintendo
2012 Game, Franchise Family
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Jon Burton)
Lego The Lord of the Rings (Jon Burton)
New Super Mario Bros. U
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
New Super Mario Bros. U Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo
2013 Game, Franchise Family
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Katsuya Eguchi)
Lego Marvel Super Heroes (Jon Burton)
Pokemon X & Y (Shusaku Egami, Junichi Masuda, Takato Utsunomiya, Hitoshi Yamagami)
Rayman Legends
Super Mario 3D World N/A
Nintendo
2014 Game, Franchise Family
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Kensuke Tanabe)
Lego Batman 3 Arthur Parsons
Traveller's Tales
2015 Game, Franchise Family
Lego Dimensions (Douglas Heder)
Yoshi's Woolly World (Atsushi Kono)
Super Mario Maker
Takashi Tezuka, Yosuke Oshino

Nintendo
2016 Game, Franchise Family
Pokémon Go
Ratchet & Clank
Super Mario Run (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Dragon Quest Builders Kazuya Niinou
Square Enix Business Division 5
2017 Game, Franchise Family
Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy
Sonic Mania (Joss Ellis)
Splatoon 2 (Tatsumi Kimishima)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Eiji Aonuma)
Super Mario Odyssey TBD
Nintendo


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Fighting
Bloody Roar 3
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium (Hidetoshi Ishizawa (Neo_G), Takechan, Oni Suzuki, Mitsuaki Araki, Haman Satoru, Buruma)
Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves
Guilty Gear X
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Masahiro Sakurai)
Dead or Alive 3 N/A
Team Ninja
2002 Game, Franchise Fighting
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Tatsuya Nakae, Spp Iorya, Buruma, Oni Suzuki, Obata Shinichiro, Hidetoshi Ishizawa)
Tekken 4
Virtua Fighter 4
WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth (James Flaharty, Nicholas Wlodyka)
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance John Podlasek, Paulo Garcia, Brian LeBaron, Ed Boon

Midway Games
2003 Game, Franchise Fighting Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution Soulcalibur II Hiroaki Yotoriyama, Akiko Tange, Koh Onda Project Soul
2004 Game, Franchise Fighting
Def Jam: Fight for NY (Lauren Wirtzer, Hideyuki Iwashita, Josh Holmes)
Godzilla: Save the Earth (Kirby Fong)
Guilty Gear Isuka
Mortal Kombat: Deception (Ed Boon)
Dead or Alive Ultimate N/A
Team Ninja
2005 Game, Franchise Fighting
Soulcalibur III (Tetsuya Akatsuka)
Tekken 5 (Yuichi Yonemori, Kazuo Takahashi, Takahiro Noda, Takehiro Shimizu, Kunihiko Minakata, Hironori Ikeda, Hayato Iinuma)
WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 (Naoto Ueno, Kensuke Kanouda, Osamu Hashimoto, Naoto Kuge)
Fight Night Round 2 Keith J. Morton
Electronic Arts
2006 Game, Franchise Fighting
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Christopher Sabat)
Guilty Gear Judgment
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Ed Boon)
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (Kazuo Takahashi, Hayato Iinuma, Takahiro Noda, Hironori Ikeda, Kunihiko Minakata)
Fight Night Round 3 N/A
Electronic Arts
2008 Game, Franchise Fighting
Bleach: Dark Souls
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Naruto: The Broken Bond
Soulcalibur IV
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Kensuke Tanabe, Keisuke Terasaki, Akiya Sakamoto

Sora Ltd.
2009 Game, Franchise Fighting
Punch-Out!! (Jamie Ip, Matt McTavish)
Street Fighter IV Takashi Tsukamoto
Capcom
2010 Game, Franchise Fighting
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (Tetsuya Tomotoshi)
UFC Undisputed 2010
Yakuza 3 (Toshihiro Nagoshi, Masayoshi Kikuchi)
Super Street Fighter IV Yoshinori Ono
Capcom
2011 Game, Franchise Fighting
Mortal Kombat (Ed Boon)
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online
WWE All Stars (Sal DiVita)
Yakuza 4 (Atsuki Ichikawa, Kazuhito Hirano)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Akihito Kadowaki, Go Usuma
Capcom
2012 Game, Franchise Fighting
Karateka (Jordan Mechner)
Persona 4 Arena (Naoki Sawakawa)
Street Fighter X Tekken (Taketoshi Sano, Yukiko Hokao, Tetsunosuke Seki)
WWE '13
UFC Undisputed 3 Hiromi Furuta
Yuke's
2013 Game, Franchise Fighting
Infinity Blade III
Killer Instinct (Michael Willette)
WWE 2K14 (Takayoshi Akasaka)
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ed Boon
NetherRealm Studios
2014 Game, Franchise Fighting
EA Sports UFC (Jazz Brousseau)
Ultra Street Fighter IV (Derek Neal)
Super Smash Bros. Masahiro Sakurai
HAL Laboratory, Inc.
2015 Game, Franchise Fighting
Killer Instinct Season 2 (Michael Willette)
Mortal Kombat X Ed Boon
NetherRealm Studios
2016 Game, Franchise Fighting
EA Sports UFC 2 (Brian Hayes)
The King of Fighters XIV (Yasuyuki Oda)
WWE 2K17
Street Fighter V Takayuki Nakayama
Capcom
Dimps
2017 Game, Franchise Fighting
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2
Injustice 2 (Ed Boon)
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (Tsuyoshi Nagayama)
Tekken 7 TBD
Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bandai Namco Studios


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Racing
Extreme-G 3
Le Mans 24 Hours (Justin Halliday, Andrew Carter)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero
Wave Race: Blue Storm (Minoru Arakawa, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigeki Yamashiro)
Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec
Kazunori Yamauchi, Sean Kelly, Shiho de Ruiter - Miyazaki, Taku Imasaki, Kenneth Chan, Nicole Nokes (ewp)

Polyphony Digital
2002 Game, Franchise Racing
Colin McRae Rally 3 (David Osbourn, Jamie Lowes)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (William Ho)
Sega GT 2002
Twisted Metal: Black
Burnout 2: Point of Impact Joe Bonar, Rupert Brooker
Criterion Games
2003 Game, Franchise Racing
F-Zero GX (Toshihiro Nagoshi)
Midnight Club II
Need for Speed Underground
Project Gotham Racing 2 (Martyn R. Chudley)
Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild (Jordan Itkowitz, Adam Kraver)
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Shigeru Miyamoto, Tadashi Sugiyama, Shinya Takahashi, Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo
2004 Game, Franchise Racing
F-Zero: GP Legend (Hitoshi Yamagami)
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (Chuck Osieja)
OutRun 2 (Steve Lycett, Travis Ryan, Colin Stone)
RalliSport Challenge 2 (Patrick Bach)
Burnout 3: Takedown Shiobhan Reddy, Rupert Brooker, Catherine Schell, Adrian Selby
Criterion Games
2005 Game, Franchise Racing
Gran Turismo 4 (Kazunori Yamauchi)
Mario Kart DS (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Project Gotham Racing 3
Burnout Revenge N/A
Criterion Games
2006 Game, Franchise Racing
ATV Offroad Fury 4 (Graham Bromley)
FlatOut 2 (Janne Alanenpää)
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (Travis Ryan)
Test Drive Unlimited (Ahmed Boukhelifa, Christophe Laboureau)
Ridge Racer 7 N/A
Bandai Namco Entertainment
2007 Game, Franchise Racing
Project Gotham Racing 4 (Ged Talbot)
Forza Motorsport 2 Alan Hartman
Turn 10 Studios
2008 Game, Franchise Racing
FlatOut: Head On (Janne Alanepää)
Mario Kart Wii (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Midnight Club: Los Angeles (Jeffrey Pidsadny)
Wipeout HD
Burnout Paradise Matt Webster
Criterion Games
2009 Game, Franchise Racing
Dirt 2 (Matthew Horsman)
Forza Motorsport 3 Dan Greenawalt
Turn 10 Studios
2010 Game, Franchise Racing
F1 2010 (Stephen Hood)
Gran Turismo 5 (Kazunori Yamauchi)
Hydro Thunder Hurricane (Ralf Knoesel)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Alan McDairmant, Hamish Young, Matt Webster, Paul Ross, Pete Lake, Steve Cuss
Criterion Games
2011 Game, Franchise Racing
Driver: San Francisco (Marie-Jo Leroux)
Forza Motorsport 4 (William Giese)
Mario Kart 7 (Hideki Konno)
Motorstorm: Apocalypse
Need for Speed: The Run (Alex Grimbley, Brian Lindley, Steve Anthony)
MotorStorm: Apocalypse N/A
Evolution Studios
2012 Game, Franchise Racing
Dirt: Showdown (Richard Todd)
F1 Online: The Game
Forza Horizon (Martin Connor)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (James Hans, Leanne Loombe, Neil Manners, Robert O'Farrell, Vanesa Lorena Tate)
Trials Evolution (Roger Carpenter)
LittleBigPlanet Karting Andrew Bracken
United Front Games
2013 Game, Franchise Racing
Gran Turismo 6
Grid 2
Need for Speed: Rivals (Craig Sullivan)
Forza Motorsport 5 Dan Greenawalt
Turn 10 Studios
2014 Game, Franchise Racing
Forza Horizon 2 (Chris Taylor)
Mario Kart 8 Hideki Konno
Nintendo
2016 Game, Franchise Racing
Dirt Rally
F1 2016
NASCAR Heat Evolution
TrackMania Turbo (Florent Castelnérac)
Forza Horizon 3 Ralph Fulton
Playground Games
2017 Game, Franchise Racing
Dirt 4 (Leon Somi)
Gran Turismo Sport
NASCAR Heat 2
Forza Motorsport 7 Leon Somi
Turn 10 Studios


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Dragon Warrior VII (Yuji Horii)
Final Fantasy Chronicles
Paper Mario (Ryota Kawade)
Phantasy Star Online (Yuji Naka)
Final Fantasy X Yoshinori Kitase
Square
2002 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings (Nik Davidson)
Grandia Xtreme
Icewind Dale II (Joshua Eric Sawyer)
Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II
Summoner 2 (Sandeep Shekar)
Wild Arms 3 (Akifumi Kaneko)
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Todd Howard, Ashley Cheng, Todd Vaughn

Bethesda Softworks
2003 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Dark Cloud 2 (Akihiro Hino)
Final Fantasy X-2 (Yoshinori Kitase)
Final Fantasy XI N/A
Square Enix
2004 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II (David Maldonado)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Akitoshi Kawazu)
Shadow Hearts: Covenant (Jeremy Airey)
Tales of Symphonia (Takashi Hasegawa)
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords N/A
Obsidian Entertainment
2005 Game, Franchise Role Playing
City of Villains (Matthew Miller, Melissa Bianco, Brian Gilmore, Floyd Grubb, Nellie Hughes)
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich (Dorian Hart, Alexx Kay), PoPoLoCrois (Hiromori Fukuoka)
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (Dan Vondrak)
Dragon Quest VIII Ryutaro Ichimura, Yoshiki Watabe, Yuu Miyake, Taichi Inuzuka, Yukinobu Chida, Akihiro Hino

Level-5
2006 Game, Franchise Role Playing
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Gavin Carter, Craig Lafferty)
Kingdom Hearts II (Tetsuya Nomura)
Neverwinter Nights 2 (Joshua Eric Sawyer, Ferret Baudoin)
Suikoden V (Hidehito Okamoto)
Final Fantasy XII Hiroaki Kato
Square Enix
2007 Game, Franchise Role Playing Persona 3 World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Shane Dabiri
Blizzard Entertainment
2008 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Fable II (Peter Molyneux)
Persona 4 (Atsushi Watanabe, Azusa Kido)
Valkyria Chronicles (Takanobu Yoshino, Kohei Yamashita)
Fallout 3 Gavin Carter
Bethesda Game Studios
2009 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (Yuji Horii)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (Fūma Yatō)
Star Ocean: Second Evolution
Suikoden Tierkreis
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Tetsuya Nomura
Square Enix
2010 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Yuji Horii)
Fable III (Peter Molyneux)
Fallout: New Vegas (Mikey Dowling, Jason Fader, Matt Singh, Tess Treadwell)
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (Chris Metzen)
Mass Effect 2 Adrien Cho, Nathan Plewes, Jesse Houston
BioWare
2011 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Dark Souls (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Dungeon Siege III (Richard Taylor)
Star Wars: The Old Republic (Holden Hume)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Craig Lafferty
Bethesda Game Studios
2012 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Diablo III (Robert Pardo)
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Torchlight II
Mass Effect 3 Jesse Houston, Casey Hudson

BioWare
2013 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Shadowrun Returns (Brian Poel)
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Tales of Xillia (Hideo Baba)
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Maki Maruyama
Capcom
2014 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Dark Souls II (Shinichiro Nishida, Yuzo Kojima)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Mike Laidlaw)
South Park: The Stick of Truth Chris Brion
Obsidian Entertainment
South Park Digital Studios
2015 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Fallout 4 (Todd Howard)
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Tetsuya Takahashi)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, Piotr Krzywonosiuk
CD Projekt Red
2016 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Bravely Second: End Layer (Kensuke Nakahara)
Dark Souls III
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (Satoshi Ohyama)
The Banner Saga 2
Final Fantasy XV Hajime Tabata
Square Enix Business Division 2
2017 Game, Franchise Role Playing
Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court
Divinity: Original Sin II (Octaaf Fieremans)
Mass Effect Andromeda (Mac Walters)
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Persona 5 Naoya Maeda
Atlus, P Studio


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Franchise Sports
Madden NFL 2002 (Jonah Stich)
NBA 2K2
NFL 2K2 (Christopher Larson)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x (Nigel Mills)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Scott Pease, Nicole Willick, Stacey Drellishak
Neversoft
2002 Game, Franchise Sports
FIFA 2003
NBA 2K3 (Derrick Aynaga)
NFL 2K3
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 (Mike Olsen)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (Stacey Ganem)
Madden NFL 2003 Jeremy Strauser, Phil Frazier, Jason Barnes, Kenny Ilko
Electronic Arts
2003 Game, Franchise Sports
Links 2004 (Mark McArthur)
Madden NFL 2004
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
Tony Hawk's Underground (Stacey Ganem)
SSX 3 Larry LaPierre, J. David Elton, Conor Lumpkin
Electronic Arts
2004 Game, Franchise Sports
ESPN NBA 2K5 (Jeremy Tiner, Dedan Anderson, Mark Washington, Kyle Lai-Fatt)
MVP Baseball 2004 (Brent Nielsen)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Stacey Ganem)
World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International (Shingo Takatsuka)
ESPN NFL 2K5 Jeffrey J. Thomas, Asif Chaudhri, Eric Sorenson (ewp), Rick Brown (ewp), Brandon Justice (ewp), Abe Navarro (ewp), Matt Underwood (ewp), Dave Zdyrko (ewp)
Visual Concepts
2005 Game, Franchise Sports
FIFA 06 (Pauline Moller)
NHL 2K6 (Colin O'Hara)
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International N/A
Konami
2006 Game, Franchise Sports
FIFA 07 (Joe Booth)
Madden NFL 07 (David Ortiz)
NBA 2K7
NHL 2K7
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 Seabass Takatsuka
Konami
2007 Game, Franchise Sports NHL 08 Madden NFL 08 N/A
Electronic Arts
2008 Game, Franchise Sports
FIFA 09 (Paul Hossack)
Madden NFL 09 (Dale Jackson)
NHL 09
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
Mario Super Sluggers N/A
Bandai Namco Entertainment
2009 Game, Franchise Sports
FIFA 10 (Lindsay Blenkhorn)
Madden NFL 10
MLB 09: The Show
Wii Sports Resort Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshikazu Yamashita
Nintendo
2010 Game, Franchise Sports
FIFA Soccer 11
MLB 10: The Show
NBA 2K11
NHL 11
Madden NFL 11 N/A
EA Tiburon
2011 Game, Franchise Sports
NHL 12
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters
Top Spin 4
Virtua Tennis 4
Madden NFL 12 N/A
EA Tiburon
2012 Game, Franchise Sports
Madden NFL 13
Mario Tennis Open (Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi)
NHL 13
Pro Evolution Soccer 2013
SSX
FIFA 13 N/A
EA Canada
2013 Game, Franchise Sports
MLB 13: The Show
NBA 2K14
Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 (Hatsumi Naoya)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14
FIFA 14 N/A
Electronic Arts
2014 Game, Franchise Sports
Mario Golf: World Tour (Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi, Toshiharu Izuno)
MLB 14: The Show
FIFA 15 Sebastián Enrique
EA Canada
2015 Game, Franchise Sports
MLB 15: The Show
PES 2016
NBA 2K16 N/A
Visual Concepts
2016 Game, Franchise Sports
Madden NFL 17
MLB The Show 16 (Jody Kelsey)
NBA 2K17
NHL 17
FIFA 17 N/A
EA Canada
2017 Game, Franchise Sports
Everybody’s Golf
FIFA 18
MLB The Show 17 (Marcus Efting)
The Golf Club 2 (Anthony Kyne)
NBA 2K18 Marcus Efting
Visual Concepts


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2004 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Donkey Konga
EyeToy: Groove (Ron Festejo)
Get On da Mic
Taiko: Drum Master
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme N/A
Konami
2005 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 (Stillwind)
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Takao Shimizu)
EyeToy: Kinetic (Tom Holmes)
In the Groove (Jason Asbahr, John Tam)
Guitar Hero John Tam, Greg LoPiccolo, Daniel Sussman, Rob Kay, Alex Rigopulos

Harmonix
2006 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Elite Beat Agents (Masako Harada, Shinya Saito)
Guitaroo Man Lives! (Masako Harada)
SingStar Rocks! (Paulina Bozek)
Guitar Hero II Daniel Sussman, Elena Siegman, Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, Helen McWilliams
Harmonix
2007 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Josh Randall)
Jam Sessions (Kosuke Asakura)
Rock Band N/A
Harmonix
2008 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Audiosurf (Dylan Fitterer)
Auditorium
Lips (Earnest Yuen)
SingStar ABBA (Fanee Sazaklidou)
Rock Band 2 N/A
Harmonix
2009 Game, Music or Performance-Based
DJ Hero
Guitar Hero 5
Lego Rock Band
The Beatles: Rock Band Naoko Takamoto
Harmonix
2010 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Bit.Trip Runner (Alex Neuse)
Dance Central (Naoko Takamoto)
Def Jam Rapstar (Brian Berger, Michael Glover, Walter Randolph)
DJ Hero 2 (Jamie Jackson)
Rock Band 3 Stephanie Peczon
Harmonix
2011 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures
Just Dance 3
The Black Eyed Peas Experience
Twister Mania (Johnny O'Donnell, Adam Cavaluzi)
Rocksmith Jason V. Schroeder
Ubisoft San Francisco
2012 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Beat Sneak Bandit
Rock Band Blitz
Dance Central 3 Matt Boch, Jon Carter, Tom Bartlett
Harmonix
2013 Game, Music or Performance
Jungle Rumble
Propinquity
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien N/A
Gaijin Games
2014 Game, Music or Performance
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd
TxK (Jeff Minter)
Just Dance 2015 Matthew Tomkinson
Ubisoft Paris
2015 Game, Music or Performance
Guitar Hero Live (Jamie Jackson, David Osbourn)
Rock Band 4
Crypt of the NecroDancer Ryan Clark Brace Yourself Games
2016 Game, Music or Performance-Based
Audioshield
Rhythm Heaven Megamix (Masami Yone)
Thumper N/A Drool
2017 Game, Music or Performance-Based
1-2-Switch
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Arcade (Makoto Osaki)
DropMix Alex Howell, John Barros, Tom Bartlett, Jonathan Mintz
Harmonix Music Systems


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Original Action
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Chris Seavor)
Halo (Jason Jones)
Jak and Daxter (Roppyakyu Tsurumi, Katsuhiko Kanazawa)
Red Faction
Max Payne Petri Jarvilehto, George Broussard, Scott Miller, Kevin Hoare
Remedy Entertainment
2002 Game, Original Action
MechAssault (Michael J. McDonald)
Ratchet & Clank (Brian Allgeier)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs (Graham Keys)
Battlefield 1942 Lars Gustavsson, Niklas Persson, Ken Balthaser, Jamil Dawsari
Digital Illusions
2003 Game, Original Action
Armed and Dangerous (Timothy Williams, Bob Stevenson, Nick Bruty)
The Simpsons: Hit & Run (John Melchior)
True Crime: Streets of LA (Luxoflux)
Call of Duty Vince Zampella, Thaine Lyman, Ken Murphy, Eric Grossman, Daniel Hagerty, Eric W. Adams (ewp)
Infinity Ward
2004 Game, Original Action
Breakdown (Ryouji Ichikari)
Far Cry (Christopher Natsuume, Jack Mamais, Richard Tsao)
Painkiller (Adrian Chmielarz)
Star Wars: Battlefront (Jens Hartvig Andersen)
Alien Hominid John Baez
The Behemoth
2005 Game, Original Action
Destroy All Humans! (Dan Teasdale, Courtney Pasieczny, Jamie Lack, Arash Mohebbi)
F.E.A.R. (Tim Shymkus)
Gun
King Kong (Michel Ancel, Sébastien Morin)
Psychonauts (Tim Schafer)
God of War Shannon Studstill, Sandy Abe, Whitney Wade, Yumi Yang, David Jaffe

Sony Interactive Entertainment
2006 Game, Original Action
Dead Rising (Hayato Tsuru, Masashi Yoshida, Jiro Taoka, Hidehiro Goda, Yusuke Sakurai, Yutaka Utsugi, Tsuyoshi Mizuta)
Just Cause (Magnus Nedfors)
Prey (Chris Rhinehart)
Resistance: Fall of Man
Saints Row (Alvan Monje, Anoop Shekar, Douglas Nelson)
Gears of War Rod Fergusson
Epic Games
2007 Game, Original Action
Crysis (Bernd Diemer)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (Anton Bolshakov)
The Darkness (Lars Johansson)
The Ship (Simon Hill)
BioShock Alyssa Finley
2K Boston
2008 Game, Original Action
Braid (Jonathan Blow)
Castle Crashers (Tom Fulp)
Dead Space (Bret Robbins)
PixelJunk Eden
Mirror's Edge Tom Farrer
EA DICE
2009 Game, Original Action
Borderlands (Simon Hurley, Stephen Palmer)
Brütal Legend (Erik Robson)
Fat Princess
Prototype (Eric Holmes)
'Splosion Man N/A
Twisted Pixel Games
2010 Game, Original Action
Alan Wake (Mikael Kasurinen, Sami Järvi, Saku Lehtinen, Jyri Ranki, Olli Tervo, Sami Vanhatalo, Jarno Wallgrèn)
Darksiders (Timothy Bell)
Limbo (Arnt Jensen)
Monday Night Combat (Robert Berry Jr., Logan DeMelt, Greg Stackhouse)
Vanquish (Masaaki Yamada, Shigenori Nishikawa, Junichi Oka)
Super Meat Boy
Edmund McMillen
Tommy Refenes
Team Meat
2011 Game, Original Action
Bulletstorm (Adrian Chmielarz)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Yusuke Nakagawa)
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Michel Gagné, Joe Olson)
Jetpack Joyride (Adam Wood, Brent Hobson, Cedar Jones, Grant Peters, Jason Harwood, Jason Maundrell, Joe Gatling, Luke Muscat, Peter McNeill, Shath Maguire, Sierra Asher, Stephen Last, Daniel Johns, Phil Larsen, Shainiel Deo)
Rage (Tim Willits)
Payday: The Heist Oliver J. Smith
Overkill Software
2012 Game, Original Action
Dishonored (Raphaël Colantonio, Harvey Smith)
Dust: An Elysian Tail (Dean Dodrill)
Hybrid
I Am Alive (Laurent Erignoux)
Spelunky (Derek Yu)
Fez Thomas Scott Polytron Corporation
2013 Game, Original Action
Badland
BattleBlock Theater
Guacamelee!
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (Andy Schatz, Andy Nguyen)
The Last of Us Bruce Straley
Naughty Dog
2014 Game, Original Action
Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
Shovel Knight
Titanfall Drew McCoy, Steve Fukuda
Respawn Entertainment
2015 Game, Original Action Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Bloodborne Hidetaka Miyazaki
FromSoftware
2016 Game, Original Action
Adr1ft (Adam Orth)
Hyper Light Drifter (Alex Preston)
Republique
The Lab
Overwatch Jeffrey Kaplan
Blizzard Entertainment
2017 Game, Original Action
Farpoint
Friday the 13th: The Game (Bryce Glover)
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Slime Rancher
Horizon Zero Dawn Jan Bart van Beek
Guerrilla Games


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Original Adventure
Devil May Cry (Masaaki Yamada, Joesuke Kaji)
Extermination (Hidetaka Suehiro (Swery), Keisuke Mori, Teku Kobayashi, Tadafumi Kamioka, Masayoshi Kurokawa)
Onimusha: Warlords (Keiji Inafune)
Pikmin (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Ico
Kenji Kaido, Darren Yager, Ron Allen, Kenneth Chan

Sony Interactive Entertainment
2002 Game, Original Adventure
Fatal Frame (Keisuke Kikuchi)
Shadow of Destiny (Philip McDonnell)
Syberia (Dominic Mercure, Patrik Méthé)
The Thing (Andrew Curtis)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
Denis Dyack, Karyn DePetris, Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata, Kenji Miki

Silicon Knights
2003 Game, Original Adventure
Primal (Katie Lea)
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy (Victor Garrido, Padraig Crowley)
The Getaway (Chun Wah Kong (lead designer), Alex Carlyle, Max Harvey, Stuart Harvey, Dominic Robilliard)
Beyond Good & Evil Yves Guillemot
Ubisoft
2004 Game, Original Adventure
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Peter Wanat)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Takuya Iwasaki)
Missing: Since January (Éric Viennot, Gérald Obringer, Olivier Dupouy, Buu-Lâm Le, Minh Phan, Nicolas Delaye)
Siren (Junya Ohkura (BHZ), Kohei Nanri)
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
Brian Eddy, Alexander W. Offermann

Midway Games
2005 Game, Original Adventure
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Christopher Gray)
Haunting Ground (Yukio Andō)
Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)
Trace Memory (Rika Suzuki)
Indigo Prophecy Constantine Hantzopoulos, Guillaume de Fondaumière, Nathalie Chody
Quantic Dream
2006 Game, Original Adventure
Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine (Britney K. Brimhall, Christopher T. Warren)
Bully (Chris Stimson, Josh Needleman)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Dan Vondrak)
Rule of Rose (Noriyuki Boda)
Ōkami Atsushi Inaba
Clover Studio
2007 Game, Original Adventure
Assassin's Creed (Jade Raymond)
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Jalil AMR)
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Haruki Suetsugu)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Amy Hennig
Naughty Dog
2008 Game, Original Adventure
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (Kevin Sheller)
Penny Arcade Adv. Ep 1: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Professor Layton and the Curious Village Akihiro Hino
Level-5
2009 Game, Original Adventure
1912: Titanic Mystery (Jeff Hendricks, Jörg Henseler)
Cursed Mountain (Tobe Mayr, Christoph Quas, Georg Heinz)
Drawn: The Painted Tower (Christian Campbell)
Mini Ninjas (Jonas Lind)
inFamous Greg Phillips, Sam Thompson
Sucker Punch Productions
2010 Game, Original Adventure
Deadly Premonition (Tomio Kanazawa, Kuniaki Kakuwa)
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Mat Hart)
The Whispered World (Marco Hüllen)
Heavy Rain Charles Coutier
Quantic Dream
2011 Game, Original Adventure
Catherine (Katsura Hashino)
Lost in Shadow (Osamu Tsuchihashi)
Stacking (Lee Petty)
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Craig D. Adams)
L.A. Noire Naresh Hirani
Team Bondi
2012 Game, Original Adventure
Botanicula (Jaromír Plachý)
Closure (Tyler Glaiel)
Dear Esther (Dan Pinchbeck)
The Dream Machine
The Walking Dead
Sean Vanaman
Jake Rodkin

Telltale Games
2013 Game, Original Adventure
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller (Cesar Bittar)
Gone Home
The Stanley Parable
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 – Faith (Ryan Kaufman)
Beyond: Two Souls Charles Coutier
Quantic Dream
2014 Game, Original Adventure
Among the Sleep
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Watch Dogs (Jonathan Morin)
The Wolf Among Us (Joe Pinney)
Broken Age: Act I Greg Rice
Double Fine Productions
2015 Game, Original Adventure
Life Is Strange (Luc Baghadoust)
Ori and the Blind Forest Thomas Mahler
Moon Studios
2016 Game, Original Adventure
1979 Revolution: Black Friday (Navid Khonsari)
Edge of Nowhere
Here They Lie (Cory Davis, John Garcia-Shelton, Toby Gard, Richard Smith)
The Last Guardian (Fumito Ueda)
Firewatch
Olly Moss, Sean Vanaman

Campo Santo
2017 Game, Original Adventure
Tacoma
The Sexy Brutale (Raul Rubio-Munarriz)
Thimbleweed Park
To the Moon
What Remains of Edith Finch Ian Dallas
Giant Sparrow


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Original Family
The Adventures of Cookie & Cream (Atsushi Taniguchi)
Aladdin in Nasira’s Revenge (Ben Tuszynski, Craig Howard)
Luigi's Mansion (Hiroshi Yamauchi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka)
Razor Freestyle Scooter
Super Monkey Ball Toshihiro Nagoshi
Amusement Vision
2002 Game, Original Family
Disney's Treasure Planet (Chris Takami)
Lego Soccer Mania (David Rutter, Mark James, Andrew Hersee)
Stitch: Experiment 626 (Jeffrey S. Marks)
Animal Crossing Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo
2003 Game, Original Family
Backyard Basketball (Philip DeLuca, Rachel Frost, Zenon Thornton, Aimee Paganini)
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (Matt Birch, Jez Harris, Guy Miller)
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Shigeru Miyamoto, Tetsuo Mizuno, Takuji Hotta (ewp), Satoshi Kira (ewp), Takashi Tezuka (ewp)

Nintendo
2004 Game, Original Family
Astro Boy: Omega Factor (Tetsu Okano)
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Wing S. Cho)
The Number Devil (Robert Ott, Caya Maue)
Katamari Damacy Mitsumasa Fujita, Toshiya Hara, Lindsay Gray, Noriko Wada
Namco
2005 Game, Original Family
Lost in Blue (Masahiro Ueno)
Nintendogs (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Lego Star Wars John Burton, Tom Stone, Loz Doyle
Traveller's Tales
Griptonite Games
Aspyr
Giant Interactive Entertainment
2006 Game, Original Family
Cooking Mama (Takeshi Nagashima)
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (Yukiko Hinokidani, Takako Kikuto, Motohiro Suzuki)
LocoRoco (Tsutomu Kouno)
Super Princess Peach (Takayuki Ikeda)
Viva Pinata Chris Sutherland, Steven Brand
Rare
2007 Game, Original Family
Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer (Robbie Graham, Alison Wilson)
Drawn to Life (Jeremiah Slaczka)
Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (Jeff Pomegranate)
Calling All Cars! David Jaffe
Sony
2008 Game, Original Family
Boom Blox (Steven Spielberg)
De Blob
Mechanic Master
World of Goo (Kyle Gabler)
Little Big Planet Luci Black, Martin Lynagh, Michelle Ducker, Claire Boissiere
Media Molecule
2009 Game, Original Family
Bonsai Barber
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (Peter Ong)
Little King's Story (Tomo Ikeda)
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor (Randy Smith)
Scribblenauts Joshua Billeaudeau, Kirsten Gavoni
5th Cell
2010 Game, Original Family
Costume Quest (Tasha Harris)
Guilty Party (Thomas Kang)
Kinectimals (David Braben)
Max and the Magic Marker (Mikhail Akopyan)
Epic Mickey Alex Chrisman, Adam Creighton
Junction Point Studios
2011 Game, Original Family
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (Tomoaki Imanishi, Yusuke Sasaki)
Where Is My Heart?
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure N/A
Toys for Bob
2012 Game, Original Family
Dokuro
Double Fine Happy Action Theater
Gets to the Exit
Amazing Alex N/A
Rovio Entertainment
2013 Game, Original Family
Disney Infinity
Game & Wario
Puppeteer
Tearaway (Rex Crowle)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Akihiro Hino
Level-5
2014 Game, Original Family
Hohokum
Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
The Counting Kingdom Jenna Hoffstein Little Worlds Interactive
2015 Game, Original Family
Donut County (Ben Esposito)
Splatoon Yusuke Amano, Tsubasa Sakaguchi
Nintendo
2016 Game, Original Family
Owlboy (Simon Stafsnes Andersen)
Song of the Deep
The Flame in the Flood N/A The Molasses Flood
2017 Game, Original Family
A Hat in Time
Yooka-Laylee (Andrew Wilson)
Cuphead Ryan Moldenhauer Studio MDHR


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2002 Game, Original Fighting
Pride FC (Takuro Seino)
Rocky (Mark Sample)
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Kirby Fong, Kyle Peschel

Pipeworks Software
2003 Game, Original Fighting Def Jam Vendetta War of the Monsters N/A
Incognito Entertainment
2004 Game, Original Fighting
Onimusha Blade Warriors (Jun Takeuchi, Keiji Inafune)
Custom Robo N/A
NOISE
2005 Game, Original Fighting
Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (Kyle Shubel)
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble
The Warriors Greg Bick, Rob Nelson, Jeronimo Barrera
Rockstar Toronto
2006 Game, Original Fighting
Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (Takeo Isogai)
Yakuza (Justin Lambros)
God Hand Atsushi Inaba
Clover Studio
2009 Game, Original Fighting
Fate/unlimited codes
The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (Stuart Platt)
MadWorld Masanao Maeda, Hiroyuki Miyazaki
PlatinumGames
2012 Game, Original Fighting Skullgirls Awesomenauts N/A
Ronimo Games
2013 Game, Original Fighting Slayin TowerFall N/A Matt Thorson
2017 Game, Original Fighting
Absolver
Arms Tatsumi Kimishima
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Original Racing
18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker (Kazuhiro Goji)
Cel Damage (Rich Hilmer)
Kinetica (Shannon Studstill)
Project Gotham Racing (Martyn R. Chudley, Stephen Gaffney, Chris Pickford, Kev Reilly, Allan Speed, Ged Talbot, Peter Wallace, Glyn Williams, Brian Woodhouse)
Splashdown Ken George, Mark Mahler
Rainbow Studios
2002 Game, Original Racing
JetX20 (Josh Hassin)
Quantum Redshift (Nick Burcombe, Lee Carus-Wescott, Martin Linklater, Chris Roberts, Andy Satterthwaite, Neil Thompson, Paul Bahr-Naylor, Andrew McMaster, Jon Dugdale)
RalliSport Challenge (Tomas Hallbeck)
Stuntman (Martin Edmondson)
Italian Job Peter Hickman, Ben Gunstone
Rockstar Games
2003 Game, Original Racing
Auto Modellista (Tatsuya Nakae, Obata Shinichiro (Exige), Ryozo Tsujimoto, Keni Kinoshita, Kojimax, Mori‑Ba
Downhill Domination N/A
Incognito Entertainment
2004 Game, Original Racing
Juiced (Richard Badger)
MTX Mototrax
TrackMania Pascal Herold
Nadeo
2005 Game, Original Racing
FlatOut (Janne Alanepää, Tommi Hartikainen)
Forza Motorsport (Dan Greenawalt)
Pokémon Dash (Miki Obata, Norio Matsumura)
Jak X: Combat Racing Grady Hunt, Sam Thompson, Greg Phillips
Naughty Dog
2006 Game, Original Racing
Cars (Jordan Itkowitz)
GT Pro Series
Pursuit Force (James Smith)
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Toby Schadt, Mike Ebert)
Excite Truck Richard Garcia
Monster Games
2007 Game, Original Racing
Colin McRae: Dirt (Matthew Horsman, Brian Coller, Jamie Adamson, Paul Coleman, Paul Lovell)
MotorStorm Mick Hocking, Simon Benson
Evolution Studios
2008 Game, Original Racing
Baja: Edge of Control (Michelle Bizzarro)
Grid (Ralph Fulton)
Pure Mary Casey, Claire Edmonds
Black Rock Studio
2009 Game, Original Racing Stoked Trials HD N/A
RedLynx
2010 Game, Original Racing
Joe Danger
ModNation Racers (Klaus Monies, Mark Riddell, Mat Thomas, Nick Letizia, Ryan Senger, Wesley Holder, William Ho)
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Travis Ryan)
Split/Second (Alice Guy)
Blur Steven Ackrich
Bizarre Creations
2012 Game, Original Racing
Road Warrior: Multiplayer Racing
Ski Safari
Subway Surfers
Slingshot Racing N/A Crescent Moon Games
2013 Game, Original Racing Gas Guzzlers Extreme LocoCycle Bill Muehl
Twisted Pixel Games
2014 Game, Original Racing
Driveclub (Matt Southern)
The Crew Ahmed Boukhelifa, Stéphane Beley (Fergus)
Ubisoft Reflections
Ivory Tower
2015 Game, Original Racing Fast Racing Neo Project CARS
Andy Tudor, Stephen Viljoen

Slightly Mad Studios
2016 Game, Original Racing
Sébastien Loeb Rally Evo (Irvin Zonca)
Radial-G: Racing Revolved N/A Tammeka Games


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Original Role Playing
Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage
Dark Cloud (Akihiro Hino)
Golden Sun (Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi)
Okage: Shadow King (Tadato Kawano)
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Darren L. Monahan, Kevin Osburn
Snowblind Studios
2002 Game, Original Role Playing
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (Chris Avellone)
Freedom Force (Matt McKnight)
Neverwinter Nights (Trent Oster, Marc Holmes, Scott Greig, Don Moar, Mark Brockington, Brent Knowles, James Ohlen, Rob Bartel, Tobyn Manthorpe)
Kingdom Hearts
Shinji Hashimoto, Yoshinori Kitase, Peter Wyse, Patrick Larkin, Emiko Yamamoto

Square Enix
2003 Game, Original Role Playing
Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand (Hideo Kojima)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Dmitry Demianovsky)
Xenosaga Episode 1 (Hirohide Sugiura)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Michael Gallo, Julio Torres, Casey Hudson, Nathan Plewes (ewp)
BioWare
2004 Game, Original Role Playing
Baten Kaitos (Saiji Yakumo)
City of Heroes (Jack Emmert, Al Rivera, Sean Michael Fish, Matthew Miller, Craig Zinkievich, Michael Lewis, Melissa Bianco, Brian Gilmore, Eric Nelson, David Wood, Jane Kalmes)
Fable (Peter Molyneux, Dene Carter, Ben Huskins, Mark Webley)
La Pucelle: Tactics (Yoshitsuna Kobayashi)
World of Warcraft
Mark Kern, Shane Dabiri, Carlos Guerrero

Blizzard Entertainment
2005 Game, Original Role Playing
Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
Guild Wars (Patrick Wyatt, Jeff Strain, Mike O'Brien)
Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome (Sōhei Niikawa)
Jade Empire Steve Lam, Chris Klassen, Jim Bishop, Sheldon Carter (ewp), Keith Soleski (ewp)
BioWare
2006 Game, Original Role Playing
Contact (Akira Ueda)
Enchanted Arms (Masanori Takeuchi)
Steambot Chronicles (Kotaro Kita)
Titan Quest Jeff Goodsill
Iron Lore Entertainment
2007 Game, Original Role Playing
Eternal Sonata
Odin Sphere (Takehiro Shiga, Yoshio Nishimura, Entsugu Inatani, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Kouichi Maenou, Yasuo Shirai, Daichi Yamashita)
Mass Effect Casey Hudson
BioWare
2009 Game, Original Role Playing
Dragon Age: Origins (Brent Knowles, Mike Laidlaw, James Ohlen)
Half-Minute Hero (Ryota Hayashi)
Demon's Souls Masanori Takeuchi
FromSoftware
2010 Game, Original Role Playing
Infinite Space (Naoki Terashima)
No Heroes Allowed!
Resonance of Fate (Takeshi Itou)
What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? (Koushi Nakanishi)
3D Dot Game Heroes Masanori Takeuchi
Silicon Studio
2011 Game, Original Role Playing
Cave Story 3D
Rift (Ken Allen, Adam Gershowitz, Harold Hanlin)
The Binding of Isaac (Edmund McMillen, Florian Himsl)
Bastion Amir Rao
Supergiant Games
2012 Game, Original Role Playing
The Last Story (Takuya Matsumoto)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Koh Kojima)
Dragon's Dogma Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Capcom
2013 Game, Original Role Playing
Ascend: Hand of Kul
High Strangeness
Path of Exile
Sorcery
Dragon's Crown George Kamitani
Vanillaware
2014 Game, Original Role Playing
Bravely Default (Tomoya Asano)
Transistor (Amir Rao, Greg Kasavin)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Bruno Galet)
Wayward Souls
Child of Light Patrick Plourde
Ubisoft Montreal
2015 Game, Original Role Playing
Pillars of Eternity (Joshua Eric Sawyer, Brandon Adler)
Undertale Toby Fox Toby Fox
2016 Game, Original Role Playing
Grand Kingdom (Tomohiko Deguchi)
I Am Setsuna (Atsushi Hashimoto)
Tom Clancy's The Division (Petter Sydow, Magnus Jansen, Julian Gerighty)
Tyranny (Brian Heins)
Darkest Dungeon N/A Red Hook Studios
2017 Game, Original Role Playing
Cosmic Star Heroine
Kingsway
Pyre TBD
Supergiant Games


Game, Original Sports











































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Original Sports
NBA Hoopz (Brian Lowe)
Rugby
Triple Play Baseball
NBA Street William M. Mozell, Josh Holmes, Thomas Singleton
NuFX
2002 Game, Original Sports
Aggressive Inline (Vincent Castillo)
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (Jem Maza, Eric Koch)
Jet Set Radio Future N/A
Smilebit
2003 Game, Original Sports
Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Tomonobu Itagaki)
ESPN NHL Hockey
Top Spin (François Giuntini, Stéphane Dupas, Pierre Adane), Wakeboarding Unleashed
World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International N/A
Konami
2004 Game, Original Sports
NFL Street
NHL Eastside Hockey Manager (Marc Vaughan)
ESPN Major League Baseball N/A
Blue Shift Inc.
2005 Game, Original Sports
Outlaw Tennis (Jason Shenkman)
Super Mario Strikers (Brandon Gill)
Mario Superstar Baseball N/A
Namco
2006 Game, Original Sports
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Super Swing Golf (Keisuke Kikuchi, Kohei Shibata)
Table Tennis (Benjamin Johnson)
Wii Sports
Katsuya Eguchi, Kiyoshi Mizuki, Shigeru Miyamoto

Nintendo
2007 Game, Original Sports
The Bigs (Daniel Brady)
Skate N/A
EA Black Box
2009 Game, Original Sports Your Shape EA Sports Active N/A
EA Canada
2010 Game, Original Sports
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
EA Sports MMA
Kinect Sports Richard Cousins, Harry Robinsons, Chris Sutherland
Rare
2014 Game, Original Sports
The Golf Club (Anthony Kyne)
OlliOlli Simon Bennett, Thomas Hegarty Roll7
2015 Game, Original Sports IDARB Rocket League Sarah Hebbler
Psyonix
2017 Game, Original Sports
NBA Playgrounds (Jess Iglesias Sanchez)
The Golf Club VR
Golf Story Andrew Newey Sidebar Games


Game, Puzzle



























































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2002 Game, Original Puzzle
Egg Mania (Mark Fisher)
Hoyle Casino 2003
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (Satoshi Shimomura)
Puyo Pop N/A
Sonic Team
2003 Game, Original Puzzle N/A Mojo! N/A
FarSight Studios
2002 Game, Franchise Puzzle
Bomberman: Generations
Frogger Beyond
Super Bust-A-Move 2
Worms Blast

Tetris Worlds Kirsten Forbes, Nathan Rose, Curtis R. Cherrington, Jason Garwood
Radical Entertainment
2003 Game, Franchise Puzzle
Bombastic
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo TBD
Capcom
2015 Game, Puzzle Lines The Game
Her Story Sam Barlow Sam Barlow
2016 Game, Puzzle
Deus Ex Go
Quadrilateral Cowboy
Stephen's Sausage Roll
The Turing Test
The Witness Jonathan Blow Thekla, Inc


Game, Simulation



































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2002 Game, Simulation
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Sid Meier's SimGolf (Alex Hutchinson, Michael McCormick)
Sims Online
Sims Unleashed (Phil Steinmeyer)
Steel Battalion Atsushi Inaba
Capcom
2003 Game, Simulation
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (Tim LeTourneau, Jonathan Knight, Margaret Ng)
Railroad Tycoon 3 (Natsuki Isaki)
Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection (Jonny Watts)
Sim City 4 Tiberius Astianax Lazar
Maxis
2004 Game, Simulation
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Gary Carr, Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley)
Dog's Life
Gallop Racer 2004
The Urbz: Sims in the City
The Sims 2 Linda Currie
Maxis
2005 Game, Simulation
Armored Core: Nine Breaker (Clint McCaul, Dan Magaha)
Falcon 4.0: Allied Force (Brandon Seltz, John Feil, Justin Wood, Patrick Cook, Paul Lange)
Lock On: Modern Air Combat (Hunter Howe, Charles London)
Silent Hunter III (Benjamin Bell)
The Movies N/A
Lionhead Studios
2006 Game, Simulation
Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Gabriel Dobrev)
The Sims 2: Open for Business
The Sims 2: Pets (Kiyoshi Ohkawa)
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania
Sid Meier's Railroads! Dirk Riegert
Firaxis Games
2007 Game, Simulation
Trainz Railwayz (JoAnna Lio Amos, Lyndsay Pearson)
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation Tadashi Sugiyama Project Aces
2008 Game, Simulation
Air Traffic Chaos (Natsuki Isaki)
Spore Richard Hofmeier
Maxis
2009 Game, Simulation
Dawn of Discovery
Tropico 3 (Gabriel Dobrev)
The Sims 3 N/A
Maxis
2011 Game, Simulation
Steel Diver (Steel Diver)
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Will Wright Project Aces
2012 Game, Simulation Cart Life Tropico 4 Bing Gordon, Sid Meier

Haemimont Games
2013 Game, Simulation SimCity Star Command N/A Star Command, LLC
2014 Game, Simulation Tropico 5 The Sims 4 Kevin Gibson, Grant Rodiek, Ryan Michael Vaughan
The Sims Studio
2015 Game, Simulation
Fallout Shelter (Ashley Pannell)
Prison Architect (Chris Delay)
Kerbal Space Program N/A
Squad
2016 Game, Simulation
Planet Coaster (James Dixon)
Starbound (Finn Brice)
Stardew Valley Eric Barone ConcernedApe
2017 Game, Simulation
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Slime Rancher
Gran Turismo Sport Kazunori Yamauchi
Polyphony Digital


Game, Special Class



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Special Class
Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix (Takashi Sagawa, Eitetsu Yamamoto, Shinichirō Niide, Shizumon, Reika)
One Piece Mansion (Noritaka Funamizu, Yoshiki Okamoto, Yoshihiro Sudou)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 3rd Edition
Frequency Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, Tim Ryan, Mike Benton, Greg LoPiccolo
Harmonix
2002 Game, Special Class
Cubivore
Magic: The Gathering Online
Monopoly Party
DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution Yoshihiko Ota, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Gozo Kitao, Ken Ogasawara
Konami
2003 Game, Special Class
Amplitude (Chuck Doud), Dance Dance Revolution Ultra Mix (Daniel Tyrrell)
DDR Max 2
WarioWare Inc.: Mega MicroGame$ (Koichi Kawamoto)
Karaoke Revolution Josh Randall, Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, Michael McHale, Shawn R. Green
Konami
2004 Game, Special Class
Chessmaster 10th Edition (Eduard Pandele)
Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Party Game$ (Goro Abe, Kyoko Watanabe, Ryutaro Takahashi)
Feel the Magic: XY/XX
Yuji Naka, Yojiro Ogawa

Sonic Team
2005 Game, Special Class
Meteos
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Trauma Center: Under the Knife (Masayoshi Sutou, Taketoyo Yasuda, Akemi Ootaka, Yoshiaki Kurihara, Yuji Ootou)
Lumines N/A
Q Entertainment, Opus, Fupac
2006 Game, Special Class
Big Brain Academy (Takashi Tezuka)
Gunpey
Lumines II (Tetsuya Mizuguchi)
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Masayoshi Sutou)
Brain Age Shinya Takahashi
Nintendo
2007 Game, Special Class
Crush (Paul Mottram)
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations (Shu Takumi)
Picross DS (Yuuki Sukekuni)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Colin Wilkinson, Tobi Saulnier, Mike Pearson, Jimi Doss, Janeen Fawkner
Infinite Interactive
2008 Game, Special Class
Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking (Denis Doré)
Personal Trainer: Cooking
My Weight Loss Coach, Scene It? Seinfeld Deluxe (Steven Stamatiadis)
Wii Fit (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Buzz!: Quiz TV Dan Croucher
Relentless Software
2009 Game, Special Class
Peggle Dual Shot (Matthew Lee Johnston)
Space Invaders Infinity Gene (Reisuke Ishida)
Flower Jenova Chen
Thatgamecompany
2010 Game, Special Class
Chime
Echoshift
Picross 3D (Tsuyoshi Wakayama, Mariko Kimizuka, Tetsuya Mochizuki, Tadashi Hashikura)
Puzzle Quest 2 (Marcus Savino)
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom V. Garrett Bittner, Denby Grace
The Odd Gentlemen
2K China
2011 Game, Special Class
Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time
Fruit Ninja Kinect (Scott West)
Kung-Fu High Impact
SpaceChem (Zach Barth)
Swarm N/A
Hothead Games
2012 Game, Special Class
Crush 3D (Paul Mottram)
Cubemen
Dyad
Lumines Electronic Symphony
Sound Shapes
Journey
Jenova Chen, Robin Hunicke

thatgamecompany
2013 Game, Special Class
Antichamber
Depression Quest (Zoë Quinn)
Device 6
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Dual Destinies (Motohide Eshiro)
Rain N/A
Sony
2014 Game, Special Class Hitman Go Monument Valley N/A Ustwo
2015 Game, Special Class
You Must Build a Boat (Konstantin Zavoloka)
The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna N/A
Croteam
2016 Game, Special Class
Abzu (Matt Nava)
Overcooked
That Dragon, Cancer N/A Numinous Games
2017 Game, Special Class
A Mortician's Tale
Dream Daddy
Everything
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Pinball FX 3 TBD
Zen Studios


Game, Strategy



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Game, Strategy
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth
Kessen II (Yōichi Erikawa)
Advance Wars Takehiro Izushi
Intelligent Systems
2002 Game, Strategy
Age of Mythology (Ian M. Fischer)
Dynasty Tactics
Medieval: Total War (Michael M. Simpson)
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Chris Sigaty, Frank Gilson, Chris Millar, Frank Pearce (ewp)
Blizzard Entertainment
2003 Game, Strategy
Advance Wars 2 (Tōru Narihiro)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yasumi Matsuno)
Gladius (Rachel Bryant)
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown (Morgan W. Gray)
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (Chris Sigaty)
Command & Conquer: Generals Harvard Bonin, Michael Verdu, Julio Valladares, Jill Goodall, Shawn Jacoby (ewp)
Electronic Arts
2004 Game, Strategy
Full Spectrum Warrior (Bernard Whang)
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (Hyunki Lee)
The Political Machine (Joe Engalan)
Rome: Total War Mike Simpson (Project Director), Rich Blenkinsop, Guy Cunis, Ed Turkington, Christian Astillero, Erick Fernandez, Ross Manton (ewp), Luci Black (ewp), George Fidler (ewp)
Creative Assembly
2005 Game, Strategy
Black & White 2 (Peter Molyneux, Ronald Millar Sr.)
Darwinia (Chris Delay, Andrew Bainbridge)
Sid Meier’s Pirates! (Sid Meier, Dan Magaha, Casey O'Toole)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Jay Wilson, Andrew Chambers, Chris Degnan, Damon Gauthier, Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, Neil Jones-Rodway)
Civilization IV Barry Caudill, Jesse Smith, Dan Magaha
Firaxis Games
2006 Game, Strategy
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs (Wallace H. Wachi Jr.)
DEFCON
Medieval II: Total War (Robert T. Smith)
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (Brian Reynolds)
Company of Heroes John Johnson
Relic Entertainment
2007 Game, Strategy
GrimGrimoire
The Eye of Judgment (Yusuke Watanabe, Shou Asano (Paical Inc.), Kyousuke Wakasa, Eiji Yamada, Sho Suga)
World in Conflict (Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, Kathy Carter-Humphreys)
Supreme Commander Gary Wagner, Jeremy Ables, Evan Pongress, David Kirwan
Gas Powered Games
2008 Game, Strategy
Age of Booty (David V. Bowman)
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (Jim Vessella)
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (Yuichi Murasawa)
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization Jesse Smith, Liam Collins, Jason Bergman
Firaxis Games
2009 Game, Strategy
Empire: Total War (Ross Manton)
Plants vs. Zombies (George Fan)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (Jonny Ebbert)
PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe N/A
Q-Games
2010 Game, Strategy
Greed Corp (Harry van Mierloo)
Napoleon: Total War (Ross Manton)
Civilization V (Dennis Shirk)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising (Jonny Ebbert)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Chris Sigaty
Blizzard Entertainment
2011 Game, Strategy
From Dust (Éric Chahi)
Frozen Synapse (Ian Hardingham)
Iron Brigade (Trenched) (Brad Muir)
Total War: Shogun 2
Age of Empires Online Dex Manley, Torsten Reinl
Robot Entertainment
Gas Powered Games
2012 Game, Strategy
King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame (Shams Jorjani, Jörgen Björklund, Staffan Berglén)
Orcs Must Die! 2 (Timothy A. Deen, Ian M. Fischer, Joseph D. Gillum, Jerome K. Jones, David Leary, Zeke Marks)
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Total War Battles
Total War: Shogun 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Garth DeAngelis, Clint McCaul, Amber Hinden
Firaxis Games
2013 Game, Strategy
Civilization V: Brave New World (Ed Beach)
Fire Emblem: Awakening (Toru Narihiro)
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (Michael Bybee, Skye Chandler, Joshua Horst, Kyle Williams)
XCOM: Enemy Within Clint McCaul
Firaxis Games
2014 Game, Strategy
The Banner Saga (Max Knechtel)
FTL: Faster Than Light (Justin Ma, Matthew Davis)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Dan Elggren
Blizzard Entertainment
2015 Game, Strategy
Invisible, Inc.
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (Chris Sigaty, Michael Morhaime)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Allen Pestaluky, Ben Kane, Brian Fetter Steel Crate Games
2016 Game, Strategy
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright (Kouhei Maeda, Genki Yokota)
XCOM 2 (Jake Solomon)
Civilization VI N/A
Firaxis Games
2017 Game, Strategy
Fire Emblem Heroes
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
No Heroes Allowed VR! (Davide Soliani)
Total War: Warhammer II
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen Jacob Solomon
Firaxis Games


Graphics, Technical



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Graphics, Technical
Jak and Daxter
Madden NFL 2002
NFL 2K2 (Matt Karnes)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (Thomas Engel)
Halo Chris Butcher, Bernie Freidin, Charles Gough, Mat Noguchi, Matt Segur, Eamon McKenzie, Stefan Sinclair, Ben Wallace
Bungie
2002 Graphics, Technical
Battlefield 1942 (Riccard Linde, Oscar Carlén)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Stuart Petri)
Metroid Prime (Mark Johnston)
Resident Evil Zero (Kenichi Ueda)
Steel Battalion (Sawaki Takeyasu)
Super Mario Sunshine
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Antoine Dodens, Frédéric Blais, David Chabot, Mathieu Laforce, Alain Turcotte, Yannick Létourneau, Jean-Francois Prévost
Ubisoft
2003 Graphics, Technical
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (Jef Johnstone)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Jason Knipe)
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Henri Blåfield, Mikko Huovinen)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Dany Bergeron, Alex Gingras, Mickail Labat, Thierry Laberge, Vincent Lamontagne, Sébastien Laporte, Patrick Limoges, Sébastien Primeau, Élie Rocray, Céline Tellier)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
Need for Speed Underground N/A
Electronic Arts
2004 Graphics, Technical
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Doom 3 (John Carmack)
Far Cry (Vladimir Kajalin)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Half-Life 2 N/A
Valve Corporation
2005 Graphics, Technical
F.E.A.R. (Alan Noon)
Project Gotham Racing 3 (Peter Roe, Boz Briers)
Quake 4 (Bobby Duncanson)
Resident Evil 4 (Yusuke Hashimoto)
Shadow of the Colossus Hajime Sugiyama, Jinji Horagai, Takuya Seki, Masanobu Tanaka
Team Ico
2006 Graphics, Technical
Final Fantasy XII (Kotaro Beppu, Keisuke Miyazaki, Taku Wakisaka, Hirofumi Kawai, Genichi Kawada, Hiroki Miyazaki, Hirotaka Sato, Masashi Nakata, Manabu Ishizaki)
Gears of War
Ōkami (Takuo Yamamoto, Norikazu Kudo)
Resistance: Fall of Man
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Guy Carver, Craig Walton
Bethesda Game Studios
2007 Graphics, Technical
Heavenly Sword
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Judd Simantov)
World in Conflict (Magnus Larsson)
Crysis N/A
Crytek
2008 Graphics, Technical
Far Cry 2 (Marc-André Deslongchamps, Frédéric Chappart)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Mirror's Edge (Andreas Fougner, Nilo Kaboteh, Lars Mårtensson)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Little Big Planet Amy Phillips, Anton Kirczenow, Allan Robertson, James Fairbairn, Jonny Hopper, Luke Petre, Matt Willis, Moo Yu, Paul Holden
Media Molecule
2009 Graphics, Technical
Assassin's Creed II (Frédérick Champoux, Clément Colin, John Huelin, Eric Le, Benoit Miller, Dmytro Mosiychuk)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (James Norman)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Michael Boon)
Forza Motorsport 3
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Michael Hatfield
Naughty Dog
2010 Graphics, Technical
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Stev Kalinowski)
Heavy Rain (Ronan Marchalot)
Hydrophobia
Just Cause 2
God of War III Brian Genna
SIE Santa Monica Studio
2011 Graphics, Technical
L.A. Noire (Andrew Hamilton)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Jin-Hee Park)
Sonic Generations
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Michael Hatfield, Teagan Morrison)
Crysis 2 Vaclav Kyba, Nicolas Schulz
Crytek
2012 Graphics, Technical
Max Payne 3 (Chris Oat)
Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil: Revelations
Spec Ops: The Line (Wojciech Zielinski)
Far Cry 3 Mickael Gilabert
Ubisoft Montreal
2013 Graphics, Technical
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Wafaa BenHammou, Vladimir Eskandari, Karine Létourneau, Maxime Tremblay)
Beyond: Two Souls (Norbert Crétinon)
Bioshock Infinite (Spencer Luebbert)
Crysis 3 (Nicolas Schulz)
The Last of Us Eben Cook
Naughty Dog
2014 Graphics, Technical
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Far Cry 4 (Danny Deslongchamps)
Infamous Second Son
Mario Kart 8
Assassin's Creed Unity Christian Sirois
Ubisoft Divertissements Inc.
2015 Graphics, Technical
Fallout 4 (Scott Franke)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Akio Sakamoto, Kunio Takabe)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Steve Austin)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Krzysztof Krzyścin)
Star Wars Battlefront Christopher Birger, Arne Schober
Electronic Arts
2016 Graphics, Technical
Battlefield 1 (Stefan Vukanovic)
DOOM (Hammed Al-Tamimi)
Forza Horizon 3 (Gareth Harwood)
The Last Guardian (Makoto Izawa)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Teagan Morrison, Waylon Brinck
Naughty Dog
2017 Graphics, Technical
Assassin's Creed Origins
Destiny 2
Persona 5
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Horizon Zero Dawn Michiel de Leeuw
Guerrilla Games


Honorary Award





















































Year Category Recipient(s)
2008 Honorary Award Mike Acton, Andy Burke, Geoff Evans
2009 Honorary Award Dennis McCauley
2010 Honorary Award
OneBigGame, Chime (Martin De Ronde, Ciaran Walsh, Ste Curran, Paul Hartnoll, Philip Glass)
Video Games Live (Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall)
2011 Honorary Award Skip Rizzo
2012 Honorary Award
Indie Game: The Movie - Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
2013 Honorary Award
Anita Sarkeesian
Mark Cerny
2014 Honorary Award Karen Schrier
2015 Honorary Award
Mark DeLoura
Toru Iwatani
2016 Honorary Award Mark Barlet


Lead Performance, Comedy



















































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2005 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Destroy All Humans! (Grant Albrecht as Cryptosporidium-Crypto, G-Man 1 and Urban Crazy)

Psychonauts (Richard Horvitz as Raz)
Richard Horvitz
Double Fine Productions
2006 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine (Christopher Warren as Valerie the Drag Queen)
Bully (Gerry Rosenthal as Jimmy Hopkins)
Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love (Grant Albrecht as Crypto)
Family Guy Video Game! (Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow)

Daxter (Max Casella as Daxter)
Max Casella
Ready at Dawn
2007 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Hot Brain (Fred Willard as Ed Warmer)
PaRappa the Rapper (John Simpson III as PaRappa)

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (David Kaye as Clank)
David Kaye
Insomniac Games
2008 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Grant Albrecht as Cryptosporidium and Jack Trippleson)

No More Heroes (Robin Atkin Downes as Travis Touchdown)
Robin Atkin Downes
Grasshopper Manufacture
2009 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Armin Shimerman as Dr. Nefarious)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (James Arnold Taylor as Ratchet)
The House of the Dead: Overkill (Anthony Aroya as Isaac Washington)
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood)

Brütal Legend (Jack Black as Eddie Riggs)
Jack Black
Double Fine Productions
2010 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Bayonetta (Hellena Schmied as Bayonetta)
Guilty Party (Tim Dadabo as Various Voices)
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Robin Atkin Downes as Travis Touchdown)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Christopher Robin Miller as Professor Layton)

DeathSpank (Michael Dobson as DeathSpank)
Michael Dobson
Hothead Games
2011 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Bulletstorm (Steve Blum as Grayson Hunt)

Bastion (Logan Cunningham as Rucks)
Logan Cunningham
Supergiant Games
2012 Performance in Comedy, Lead
Quantum Conundrum (John de Lancie as Prof. Fitz Quadwrangle)

Borderlands 2 (David Eddings as Claptrap)
David Eddings
Gearbox Software
2013 Performance in a Comedy, Lead
Deadpool (Nolan North as Deadpool)
DuckTales Remastered (Alan Young as Uncle Scrooge)
Lego City Undercover (Joseph May as Chase McCain)
Puppeteer (Stephen Greif as the Narrator)

The Stanley Parable (Kevan Brighting as the Narrator)
Kevan Brighting Galactic Cafe
2014 Performance in a Comedy, Lead
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright (Christopher Robin Miller as Professor Layton)
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright (Trevor White as Phoenix Wright)
Tesla Effect (Chris Jones as Tex Murphy)

Broken Age: Act I (Elijah Wood as Shay)
Elijah Wood
Double Fine Productions
2015 Performance in a Comedy, Lead
Minecraft: Story Mode (Catherine Taber as Jesse)
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! (Lorne Lanning as Abe)

Tales from the Borderlands (Troy Baker as Rhys)
Troy Baker
Telltale Games, Gearbox Software
2016 Performance in a Comedy, Lead
Ratchet & Clank (James Arnold Taylor as Ratchet)

King's Quest Chapter V: The Good Knight (Christopher Lloyd as King Graham)
Christopher Lloyd
The Odd Gentlemen
2017 Performance in a Comedy, Lead
Battle Chef Brigade (Erica Mendez as Mina)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Scott Porter as Peter Quillï)
Scott Porter
Telltale Games


Lead Performance, Drama



















































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2005 Performance in Drama, Lead
God of War (Terrence C. Carson as Kratos)
Indigo Prophecy (Sharon Mann as Samantha Malone, Kate Morrison, Markus Kane (Young), Mary Kane, TV Evangelist, Operator and Disaster Reporter)

Gun (Thomas Jane as Colton White)
Thomas Jane
Neversoft
2006 Performance in Drama, Lead
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Ellie Conrad-Leigh as Zoë Castillo)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Patrick Stewart as Emperor Uriel Septim VII)
Half-Life 2: Episode One (Merle Dandridge as Alyx Vance)
Scarface: The World Is Yours (Vida Guerra as Femme Fatale)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Sean Bean as Emperor Martin Septim)
Sean Bean
Bethesda Game Studios
2007 Performance in Drama, Lead
Heavenly Sword (Anna Torv as Nariko)
Heavenly Sword (Lydia Baksh as Kai)

Mass Effect (Jennifer Hale as Commander Shepard (Female))
Jennifer Hale
BioWare
2008 Performance in Drama, Lead
Grand Theft Auto IV (Michael Hollick as Niko Bellic)
Tomb Raider: Underworld (Keeley Hawes as Lara Croft)

Fallout 3 (Liam Neeson as James - Father)
Liam Neeson
Bethesda Game Studios
2009 Performance in Drama, Lead
Assassin's Creed II (Nolan North as Desmond Miles)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Vin Diesel as Riddick)
Halo 3: ODST (Nathan Fillion as Edward Buck)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Chad Coleman as Coach)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Christopher Miller as Professor Layton)

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Nolan North as Nathan Drake
Nolan North
Naughty Dog
2010 Performance in Drama, Lead
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Gary Oldman as Viktor Reznov and Dr. Clarke)
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Andy Serkis as Monkey and Pyramid)
Heavy Rain (Pascal Langdale as Ethan Mars)
Mass Effect 2 (Mark Meer as Commander Shepard (Male))

Red Dead Redemption (Rob Wiethoff as John Marston)
Rob Wiethoff
Rockstar San Diego
2011 Performance in Drama, Lead
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Billy Murray as Price)
Catherine (Troy Baker as Vincent Brooks)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Elias Toufexis as Adam Jensen)
L.A. Noire (Adam Harrington as Roy Earle)

L.A. Noire (Aaron Staton as Cole Phelps)
Aaron Staton
Team Bondi
2012 Performance in Drama, Lead
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (Matthew Porretta as Alan Wake)
Far Cry 3 (Michael Mando as Vaas)
Halo 4 (Mackenzie Mason as Cortana)
Max Payne 3 (James McCaffrey as Max Payne)
Sleeping Dogs (Will Yun Lee as Wei Shen)

The Walking Dead (Dave Fennoy as Lee Everett)
Dave Fennoy
Telltale Games
2013 Performance in a Drama, Lead
Beyond: Two Souls (Ellen Page as Jodie Holmes)
Remember Me (Kezia Burrows as Nilin)
The Last of Us (Ashley Johnson as Ellie)
Tomb Raider (Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft)

The Last of Us (Troy Baker as Joel)
Troy Baker
Naughty Dog
2014 Performance in a Drama, Lead
Infamous First Light (Laura Bailey as Fetch)
Infamous Second Son (Troy Baker as Delsin Rowe)
The Walking Dead: Season Two (Melissa Hutchison as Clementine)
The Wolf Among Us (Adam Harrington as Bigby Wolf)

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons)
Kevin Spacey
Sledgehammer Games
2015 Performance in a Drama, Lead
Fallout 4 (Brian T. Delaney as Male Player Character)
Her Story (Viva Seifert as Wife)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft)
The Order: 1886 (Steve West as Grayson and Sir Galahad)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Doug Cockle as Geralt of Rivia)
Doug Cockle
CD Projekt Red
2016 Performance in a Drama, Lead
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Brian Bloom as Nick Reyes)
Firewatch (Cissy Jones as Delilah)
Mafia III (Alex Hernandez as Lincoln Clay)
Quantum Break (Shawn Ashmore as Jack Joyce)

Firewatch (Rich Sommer as Henry)
Rich Sommer
Campo Santo
2017 Performance in a Drama, Lead
Destiny 2 (Nathan Fillion as Cayde-6)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Ashly Burch as Aloy)
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer)
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Laura Bailey as Nadine)

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Melina Juergens as Senua)
Melina Juergens
Ninja Theory


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Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Lighting/Texturing
Luigi's Mansion
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Yoji Shinkawa)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Aimee E. Smith)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (Karen Chelini)
Ico Katsuhiko Abe, Taijuro Hachiya, Kaihei Hayano, Tsutomu Kouno, Atsushi Morioka, Kazuhiro Numata, Nanako Ohmura, Mitsuhiro Shimooki, Mikiko Takeda, Chikara Ueno, Takuya Seki, Hajime Sugiyama, Roland Herrington (ewp)
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2002 Lighting/Texturing
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Denis Dyack)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (John Burk)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Yoji Shinkawa)
Metroid Prime (Todd Keller)
Resident Evil Zero (Hiroshi Kasajima)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Hugo Dallaire, Yves Allaire, Antoine Dodens, Frédéric Blais, David Chabot, Mathieu Laforce, Alain Turcotte, Yannick Létourneau, Jean-Francois Prévost
Ubisoft
2003 Lighting/Texturing
Call of Duty (Brad Allen, Chris Hassell, Jeff Heath, Paul Jury (Lead 2D), Justin Thomas, Kevin Chen (Concept Art))
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (Michael Bray (ArtSource), Jef Johnstone)
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Need for Speed: Underground
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time N/A
Ubisoft
2004 Lighting/Texturing
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Jan Andersson, Jens Matthies)
Half-Life 2 (Dhabih Eng)
Ninja Gaiden (Yuko Miyamoto, Chiharu Adachi, Yuichi Hasegawa, Shintaro Ito, Ryoji Sugita)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Nathalie Nogard-Moschetti, Grégory Piche, David García)
Doom 3 N/A
id Software
2005 Lighting/Texturing
God of War (Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Gustavo Rasche)
Quake 4 (Kevin Long)
Shadow of the Colossus (Yuta Kimura, Hironobu Nakano)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (Audran Guerard, Benoit Carrière, Jean-Philippe Rajotte, Michelle Wu)
Resident Evil 4 Ryuichi Okano
Capcom
2006 Lighting/Texturing
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Nicolas Bracq (Nikko), Bruno Baron (Adol), Franois Launet (Goomi), Jeremy Delchiapo (Jeremy), Albert Bonnefous (Lobo))
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Final Fantasy XII (Kaori Sato)
Resistance: Fall of Man
Gears of War Chris Perna
Epic Games
2007 Lighting/Texturing
Assassin's Creed (André Bastien, Caroline Boulay, Virginie Cinq-Mars, Dominique Grandmont, Sebastien Hebert, Samuel Jacques, Myriam Laforest, Simon Pelletier, Guylaine Rhéaume)
God of War II (Maximilian Vaughn Ancar (Lead), Wade Mulhern)
Heavenly Sword (Matthew Preece)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Toby Tobler)
BioShock Stephen Alexander, Chad King
2K Boston
2008 Lighting/Texturing
Condemned 2: Bloodshot (Matthew Allen)
Little Big Planet (Jim Unwin, Rex Crowle)
Mirror's Edge (Oscar Carlén, Erland Körner, Wille Wintertidh)
Siren: Blood Curse (Morimasa Onda)
Dead Space Chi Wai Lao, Dave Blizard, Begoña Colomar, Vivian Ding, Rachel Mina, Joe Palrang, Atsushi Seo
EA Redwood Shores
2009 Lighting/Texturing
Assassin's Creed II (Sebastien Hebert, The Chinh Ngo)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (William Smith)
Killzone 2 (Roderick van der Steen, Marianna Loo, Gordon De Haseth)
Resident Evil 5 (Shuuichi Kawata, Naotaka Yoshitomi)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Tate Mosesian, Dave Witters
Naughty Dog
2010 Lighting/Texturing
Alan Wake (Astrid Madsen, Tiago Rocha)
BioShock 2
God of War III (Nate Homan, Yuliya Vinokur)
Limbo (Morten Christian Bramsen)
Heavy Rain Sylvain Muzé
Quantic Dream
2011 Lighting/Texturing
Battlefield 3 (Oscar Carlén, Andreas Chrysovitsanos, Andrew Hamilton, Joakim Svärling)
Dead Space 2 (Atsushi Seo)
F.E.A.R. 3 (Suzana Kilic)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Adam Coggin, Sanjay Chand)
Batman: Arkham City Abelardo Polonio
Rocksteady Studios
2012 Lighting/Texturing
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
'Dear Esther (Robert Briscoe)
Far Cry 3 (Dominique Grandmont, Sebastien Hebert)
Halo 4 (Kenny Magnusson)
Hitman: Absolution (Oleksandr Pshenychnyy)
Assassin's Creed III Pascal Barriault
Ubisoft Montreal
2013 Lighting/Texturing
Beyond: Two Souls (Sylvain Muzé)
Bioshock Infinite (Stephen Alexander)
Metro: Last Light (Sergey Karmalsky, Alexander Bereznyak)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Grzegorz Puzniak, Danila Pogalov, Taeha Park, Paramjit Sarai, Kent Wilson)
The Last of Us Vivian Ding
Naughty Dog
2014 Lighting/Texturing
Infamous Second Son (Jason Connell, Toby Tobler, Matt Vainio, Carlon Addison, Jeremy Forbes, Cory Lee, Tom Mabe, Christopher Swick, Mark Wood)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Nancy Larouche)
Thief (Karla Martinez)
Watch Dogs (Jean-Philippe Leroux)
Alien: Isolation Ben Hutchings
Creative Assembly
2015 Lighting/Texturing
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Annie Dumais)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Florian Desaunay)
Dying Light (Aleksander Netzel, Łukasz Kozak, Łukasz Krawczyk)
Star Wars Battlefront (Dave Kintner)
Rise of the Tomb Raider Brandon Russell
Crystal Dynamics
2016 Lighting/Texturing
Dishonored 2 (Damien Laurent, Pierre Pronier)
DOOM (Brian Ellebracht, Tony Garza)
Quantum Break (Laurent Harduin)
Titanfall 2 (Todd Sue)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Mark Shoaf, Leandro Amaral
Naughty Dog
2017 Lighting/Texturing
Assassin's Creed Origins
Horizon Zero Dawn
Little Nightmares
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
What Remains of Edith Finch N/A
Giant Sparrow


Original Dramatic Score











































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2010 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Jesper Kyd)
Final Fantasy XIII (Masashi Hamauzu)
Halo: Reach (C. Paul Johnson)
Mass Effect 2 (Jack Wall
Red Dead Redemption Craig Conner
Rockstar San Diego
2010 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Nitin Sawhney)
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon (Riei Saito)
Heavy Rain (Alastair Lindsay)
Nier
Alan Wake Petri Alanko
Remedy Entertainment
2011 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Jesper Kyd)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Brian Tyler)
Crysis 2 (Borislav Slavov, Tilman Sillescu)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Michael A. McCann)
Infamous 2
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Greg Edmonson
Naughty Dog
2011 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Masato Kouda, Kento Hasegawa)
Payday: The Heist (Simon Viklund)
Rise of Nightmares (Ron Fish)
Shadows of the Damned (Akira Yamaoka)
Rage Rob Abernethy (Red Note Audio)
id Software
2012 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Far Cry 3 (Simon Landry)
Halo 4 (Neil Davidge)
Karateka (Christopher Tin)
Mass Effect 3 (Sascha Dikiciyan, Sam Hulick, Chris Lennertz, Clint Mansell, Cris Velasco)
Max Payne 3 (Jake Duzsik, John Famiglietti, Jupiter Keyes, BJ Miller)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Michael A. McCann)
Assassin's Creed III Lorne Balfe
Ubisoft Montreal
2012 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
Dear Esther (Louisa Fuller (Violin), Tom Pigott-Smith (Violin), Rachel Robson (Viola), Chris Worsey (Chello), Andrew Skeet (Piano), Clara Sanabras (Vocals), Jessica Curry (Samples and Audio Effects))
Mark of the Ninja (Vincent DeVera, Jason Garner)
Sleeping Dogs (Jeff Tymoschuk)
The Last Story (Nobuo Uematsu)
Journey Austin Wintory
thatgamecompany
2013 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
God of War: Ascension (Tyler Bates)
Lost Planet 3 (Jack Wall)
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (Glenn Stafford)
XCOM: Enemy Within (Roland J. Rizzo)
Tomb Raider Jason Graves
Crystal Dynamics
2013 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller (Austin Haynes)
Remember Me (Olivier Derivière)
Ryse: Son of Rome (Borislav Slavov)
Soul Sacrifice
The Last of Us Gustavo Santaolalla
Naughty Dog
2014 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Dark Souls II (Yuka Kitamura)
Infamous Second Son (Bryan Mantia, Marc Canham, Nathan Johnson)
Wasteland 2 (Mark Morgan)
The Wolf Among Us (Jared Emerson-Johnson)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare N/A
Sledgehammer Games
2014 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
The Banner Saga (Austin Wintory)
Dawngate (Jeff Broadbent)
Titanfall (Stephen Barton)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
WildStar
Destiny C. Paul Johnson, Michael Salvatori, Martin O'Donnell

Bungie
2015 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Jack Wall)
Halo 5: Guardians (Kazuma Jinnouchi)
Killer Instinct Season 2 (Mick Gordon)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Justin Burnett)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski

CD Projekt Red
2015 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Jessica Curry)
Grey Goo (Frank Klepacki)
Pillars of Eternity (Justin Bell)
The Order: 1886 (Jason Graves)
Bloodborne Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitō, Yuka Kitamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Cris Velasco, Michael Wandmacher

FromSoftware
2016 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Dark Souls III (Yuka Kitamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki)
Dishonored 2 (Daniel Licht)
Mafia III (Jim Bonney, Jesse Harlin)
Watch Dogs 2 (Hudson Mohawke)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Henry Jackman, Jonathan Mayer, Scott Hanau

Naughty Dog
2016 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
Severed
Stellaris (Andreas Waldetoft)
The Last Guardian (Takeshi Furukawa)
Virginia (Lyndon Holland)
Tom Clancy's The Division Ola Strandh
Massive Entertainment
2017 Original Dramatic Score, Franchise
Assassin's Creed Origins
Destiny 2
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Persona 5
Nier: Automata N/A
Platinum Games
2017 Original Dramatic Score, New IP
Arena of Valor
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Little Nightmares
RiME
Horizon Zero Dawn Lucas van Tol
Guerrilla Games


Original Light Mix Score











































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2010 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Minako Hamano, Masaru Tajima, Shinji Ushiroda, Daisuke Matsuoka)
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Kōichi Sugiyama)
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (Noriyuki Iwadare)
Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu, Koji Kondo

Nintendo
2010 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
3D Dot Game Heroes
Bayonetta (Hiroshi Yamaguchi)
Super Meat Boy Danny Baranowsky Team Meat
2011 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Kung-Fu High Impact
LittleBigPlanet 2
Rayman Origins (Christophe Héral, Billy Martin)
Patapon 3 Kemmei Adachi, Daisuke Miyake, Yu Ogata Pyramid, SIE Japan Studio
2011 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
Bastion (Darren Korb)
Jetpack Joyride
Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest
PlayStation Move Heroes
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Andrew Scott Shadow Planet Productions
2012 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Noriyuki Iwadare, Takahiro Nishi)
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
Skylanders: Giants
Touch My Katamari
Wipeout 2048
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Jim Dooley
Junction Point Studios
Blitz Games Studios
2012 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
Botanicula (DVA, Bára Kratochvílová, Jan Kratochvíl)
Dyad
Escape Plan
Papo & Yo
Spelunky (Eirik Suhrke)
Fez Rich Vreeland Polytron Corporation
2013 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
DuckTales Remastered
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Power Glove)
Rayman Legends
The Walking Dead: 400 Days (Jared Emerson-Johnson)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Ryo Nagamatsu
Nintendo
2013 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
BattleBlock Theater
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (Austin Wintory)
Puppeteer
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 – Faith (Jared Emerson-Johnson)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Joe Hisaishi
Level-5
2014 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (David Wise)
Hyrule Warriors (Masato Koike, Yuki Matsumura)
Mario Kart 8
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Jamie Dunlap)
Bayonetta 2 Masami Ueda
PlatinumGames
2014 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
Hohokum
Shovel Knight (Jake Kaufman)
Super Time Force
Transistor (Darren Korb)
Child of Light Béatrice Martin
Ubisoft Montreal
2015 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Michael Cottone (The Green Kingdom), Prey Growl, Jasper Byrne, James Kent (Perturbator), Magna, Vestron Vulture, Magic Sword, Scattle, Stephen Gilarde (M.O.O.N.), Life Companions, Franck Hueso (Carpenter Brut), iamthekidyouknowwhatimean, Cinimod, Benny Smiles, LipPi Sound, Kalle Jonnson (Dubmood), Mega Drive, El Tigr3, Light Club, Old Future Fox Gang, Modulogeek, Alexandre Blanchard, David Scott (Nounverber), Johan Bengtsson (Mitch Murder), Niklas Åkerblad (El Huervo), Chromacle, Dag Unenge, Riddarna, Tibor Knopf (Sjellos), The Castanets)
King's Quest Chapter I: A Knight to Remember (Ben Stanton, David Stanton)
Tales of Zestiria (Masaru Shiina
Motoi Sakuraba)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (Koji Kondo)
Tales from the Borderlands Jared Emerson-Johnson
Telltale Games
Gearbox Software
2015 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)
Crypt of the Necrodancer (Danny Baranowsky)
Galak-Z: The Dimensional (Sam Bird), Undertale (Toby Fox)
Life Is Strange Jonathan Morali (Syd Matters)
Dontnod Entertainment
2016 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Kirby: Planet Robobot (Hirokazu Ando)
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 (Junichi Funada)
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 (Ricardo Almeida)
Ratchet & Clank (Michael Bross)
Mirror's Edge Catalyst James Slavin
EA DICE
2016 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
Hyper Light Drifter (Richard Vreeland (Disasterpeace))
Overcooked
Overwatch (Derek Duke)
Stardew Valley (Eric Barone)
Furi N/A
The Game Bakers
2017 Original Light Mix Score, Franchise
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Metroid: Samus Returns
Yakuza 0
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild N/A
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
2017 Original Light Mix Score, New IP
Celeste
Pyre
To the Moon
What Remains of Edith Finch
Cuphead N/A Studio MDHR


Performance in a Sports Game



























Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2016 Performance in a Sports Game
FIFA 17(Adetomiwa Edun as "Alex Hunter")
WWE 2K17(Michael Cole as "Himself")
NBA 2K17
Michael B. Jordan as "Justice Young"

Visual Concepts
2016 Performance in a Sports Game
Forza Motorsport 7(Ken Block)
NHL 18(Paul Steigerwald)

Forza Motorsport 7(Josef Newgarden)
Josef Newgarden
Turn 10 Studios


Song Collection



































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2003 Song Collection
Primal (16 Volt - combat tracks and intro night club, Eric Powell, Mike Peoples, John Desalvo)
Project Gotham Racing 2 (Fred Northup)
Tony Hawk's Underground (Westies, Tim Riley, Brandon Young)
True Crime: Streets of LA (Bright Riley, DeMonica Plummer)
Amplitude N/A
Harmonix
2004 Song Collection
Burnout 3: Takedown (Stephen Root)
Def Jam: Fight for NY (Gordon Durity)
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Brandon Young)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Dan Houser, Navid Khonsari, Tim Sweeney (ewp), Heinz Henn (ewp)

Rockstar North
2005 Song Collection
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Craig Conner)
Indigo Prophecy)
The Warriors (Steve Donohoe)
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Brandon Young, Tim Riley)
Guitar Hero
Eric Brosius, Kasson Crooker

Harmonix
2006 Song Collection
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Ivan Pavlovich, Andi Hanley)
Lumines II (Nobuhiko Shimizu, Julie Sessing-Turner)
Saints Row (Cornerstone Promotion)
SingStar Rocks! (Grace Ep)
Guitar Hero II Chris Larkin
Harmonix
2007 Song Collection
Boogie
Rock Band (Will Littlejohn)
SingStar Pop
Skate
BioShock N/A
2K Boston
2008 Song Collection
Braid (Magnatune)
Rock Band 2
Persona 4
The World Ends with You
Grand Theft Auto IV Craig Conner, Ivan Pavlovich, Andi Hanley
Rockstar North
2009 Song Collection
Band Hero
Brütal Legend (Emily Ridgway)
DJ Hero
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (Craig Conner)
Guitar Hero 5
The Saboteur (Laura Epp)
The Beatles: Rock Band N/A
Harmonix
2010 Song Collection
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Katie Sippel)
DJ Hero 2 (Rich Orchard)
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (Stephan Vankov)
Mafia II (Xenia Mul)
BioShock 2 N/A
2K Marin
2011 Song Collection
ABBA: You Can Dance
L.A. Noire (Craig Conner)
Just Dance 3 N/A
Ubisoft Paris
Ubisoft Reflections
2012 Song Collection
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two)
Forza Horizon (Robert John Gorham)
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
Lollipop Chainsaw (Akira Yamaoka)
Max Payne 3 (Ivan Pavlovich, Jaesun Celebre, Tony Mesones)
Sleeping Dogs (Rashid Hille)
Lumines Electronic Symphony N/A
Q Entertainment
2013 Song Collection
Grand Theft Auto V (Ivan Pavlovich, Jaesun Celebre, Jeff Silverman, Tony Mesones)
Rocksmith 2014 Edition
Saints Row IV
Bioshock: Infinite Jim Bonney
Irrational Games
2014 Song Collection
Hohokum
SingStar Ultimate Party
Sunset Overdrive
Transistor (Darren Korb)
Just Dance 2015 Alkis Argyriadis
Ubisoft Paris
2015 Song Collection
Fallout 4 (Christopher S. Parker, Brandracket LLC)
Life Is Strange (Feel for Music)
Rock Band 4 N/A
Harmonix
2016 Song Collection
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Sarah Schachner, Stephen Miller)
Dead Rising 4
Dishonored 2 (COPILOT)
Forza Horizon 3
Mafia III N/A
Hangar 13
2017 Song Collection
Gran Turismo Sport
Need for Speed Payback
Life is Strange: Before the Storm N/A
Deck Nine


Song, Original or Adapted



























































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2003 Song, Original or Adapted
Dark Cloud 2 - "Time is Changing"

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne - "Late Goodbye"

Sami Järvi (ewp)
Kärtsy Hatakka (ewp), Kimmo Kajasto (ewp)

Remedy Entertainment
2005 Song, Original or Adapted
Advent Rising - "Greater Lights""
Indigo Prophecy - "Santa Monica"
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood - "Tears of Blood"
Romancing SaGa - "Menuett"

We Love Katamari – "Katamari on the Swing"
Yuri Misumi, Hiroshi Okubo, Masashi Sugiyama, Katsuro Tajima, Hideki Tobeta, Akitaka Toyama, Yoshihito Yano, Tomomitsu Kaneko, Kanako Kakino
Namco
2006 Song, Original or Adapted
Kingdom Hearts II - "Sanctuary"
LocoRoco - "Loco Roco No Uta"
Lumines II - "Heavenly Star"

Final Fantasy XII - "Kiss Me Good-Bye"

Nobuo Uematsu – "Angela Aki"

Square Enix
2007 Song, Original or Adapted
Mass Effect - "M4 Part II"
PaRappa the Rapper - "Do You Know Why We Stopped the Car?"
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - "Lament of the Highborne"

Portal – "Still Alive"
N/A
Valve Corporation
2008 Song, Original or Adapted
Haze - "Haze"
Persona 4 - "Never More"
The World Ends with You - "Twister"

The World Ends with You - "The One Star"
N/A
Square Enix
2009 Song, Original or Adapted
DJ Hero - "Taking My Ball"
Dragon Age: Origins - "I Am the One"

Klonoa – "LaLaLa"
Kanako Kakino, Junko Ozawa
Bandai Namco Entertainment
2010 Song, Original or Adapted
Bayonetta - "Fly Me to the Moon"
Deadly Premonition - "Greenvale"
Deadly Premonition - "The Woods and the Goddess"
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - "Always on My Mind"

Alan Wake - "The Poet and the Muse"
N/A
Remedy Entertainment
2011 Song, Original or Adapted
Bastion - "Setting Sail, Coming Home"
L.A. Noire - "Torched Song"
LittleBigPlanet 2 - "Victoria’s Lab"

Portal 2 - "Want You Gone"
Jonathan Coulton
Valve Corporation
2012 Song, Original or Adapted
Call of Duty: Black Ops II - "Nino Precioso"
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two - "Help Me Help You"
Journey - "I Was Born for This"
NeverDead - "Love"
Silent Hill: Book of Memories - "Love Psalm"

Max Payne 3 - "9 Circulos"
Leandro Roque de Oliveira (Emicida)
Rockstar Games
2013 Song, Original or Adapted
BattleBlock Theater - "Buckle Your Pants"
Contrast - "House on Fire"
Rain - "Clair De Lune"

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - "Kokoro no Kakera"
Mamiko Suzuki
Level-5
2014 Song, Original or Adapted
1954: Alcatraz - "Try and Forget Me" (Pedro Macedo Camacho)
Destiny - "Hope for the Future" (Paul McCartney)
Dragon Age: Inquisition - "The Dawn Will Come" (Trevor Morris
David Gaider)
Transistor - "We All Become" (Darren Korb, Ashley Barret)

Infamous Second Son - "Heart-Shaped Box"

Nirvana
Dead Sara

Sucker Punch Productions
2015 Song, Original or Adapted
Devil's Third - "Bleed Out" (Mike Reagan, Julian Coryell, Erin Reagan, Mateo Laboriel, Carmen Twillie)
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - "The Mourning Tree" (Jessica Curry)
Fallout 4 - "Good Neighbor" (Lynda Carter
John Jarvis, Kerry Marx)
Rare Replay - "Opening Number"

Life Is Strange - "To All of You"
Jonathan Morali (Syd Matters)
Dontnod Entertainment
2016 Song, Original or Adapted
Civilization VI - "Sogno di Volare"
Dishonored 2 - "Gold Dust Woman"
The Flame in the Flood - "What We Leave Behind"

Final Fantasy XV - "Stand by Me"
N/A
Square Enix Business Division 2
2017 Song, Original or Adapted
Gran Turismo Sport - “No Nothings”
Pyre - "Vagrant Song”
Tales of Berseria – “Burn”

Super Mario Odyssey - "Jump Up, Super Star!"
N/A
Nintendo


Sound Editing, Game Cinema



























































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2004 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Kenji Shibazaki)
Doom 3 Rik Schaffer
id Software
2005 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Call of Duty 2 (Mark Ganus, Earbash Audio Inc.)
Indigo Prophecy
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Jamie McMenamy, Michael Bross)
We Love Katamari (Yu Miyake)
Resident Evil 4 N/A
Capcom
2006 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (Kenichi Mikoshiba)
Gears of War (Jamey Scott
Ōkami (Atsushi Mori)
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (Mike Cody, Kristofor Mellroth)
Final Fantasy XII Shojiro Nakaoka, Makoto Ise
Square Enix
2007 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Hellgate: London (Dave Steinwedel)
Mass Effect (Steven Sim)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Peter Blumel, Drew McCoy
Infinity Ward
2008 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Roy Machado)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Brian Tibbetts, Tom Bible, Aaron Brown, Erik Foreman)
Dead Space Kristine Barrett, Lawrence Chandler
EA Redwood Shores
2009 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Earbash Audio Inc.)
Halo Wars (J. D. Smith)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Jake Kaufman, Dan Wentz)
Batman: Arkham Asylum Thom Brennan, Solange Schwalbe
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Ben Minto, Bence Pajor, Mari Saastamoinen)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Chris Cowell)
Final Fantasy XIII (Jota Goto)
God of War III (Paul M. Fox, Chris Hegstrom)
Mass Effect 2 Shauna Perry, Simon Charles Pressey
BioWare
2011 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Adam Boyd, Earbash Audio Inc., Wabi Sabi Sound)
Child of Eden (Keiichi Sugiyama, Ayako Minami, Takako Ishida)
Portal 2
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Tom Hite
Naughty Dog
2012 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Resident Evil 6 (Jamison Boaz, Marie Ishikawa, Juan Flores)
Starhawk (Ted Kocher, Andrew Buresh, Scott Hanau)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Rob Burns, Adam Block, John Drelick, Christopher D'Ambrosio, Mark Loperfido, Ian Mika, Mike Niederquell)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Andrew Buresh, Scott Shoemaker,Michael Bricker, Sam Marshall, Ted Kocher, Joel Yarger, Jason Swan)
Mass Effect 3 Rob Blake
BioWare
2013 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
God of War: Ascension (Mario Lavin)
Puppeteer
Remember Me (Sébastien Gaillard, Nicolas Bredin, Pierre-Jean Griscelli, Louis Martin, Antoine Babary, Gilles Camous)
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (Alexander L. Ephraim, Jon Graves, Caroline Hernandez, Clinton Jones)
The Last of Us Shannon Potter
Naughty Dog
2014 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Far Cry 4 (Ding Jun Mei)
Infamous Second Son
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Akihiro Teruta)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Michael Norris)
Dragon Age: Inquisition Anders Clerwall
BioWare
2015 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Felix Tievant)
Bloodborne (Tsukasa Saitō, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Hideyuki Etō, Yuka Kitamura, Shoi Miyazawa, Takashi Onodera)
Fallout 4 (James Tanenbaum)
The Order: 1886 (Bryan Ploof, Emily Schrivner)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Kuba Pietrzak (Juice)
CD Projekt Red
2016 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Battlefield 1 (Bence Pajor)
Dark Souls III (Hideyuki Eto)
Dishonored 2 (Thomas Mitton)
Gears of War 4 (Jimmy Smith)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Phil Kovats
Naughty Dog
2017 Sound Editing in a Game Cinema
Mass Effect Andromeda
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Phil Kovats
Naughty Dog


Sound Effects



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Sound Effects
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (David Rovin)
Ico (Masaaki Kaneko, Keiichi Kitahara)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Akihiro Honda, Ryoji Makimura)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (Rudolf Stember)
Silent Hill 2 Akira Yamaoka
Konami
2002 Sound Effects
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Allan Walker, Craig Conner, Raymond Usher, Stuart Ross, Will Morton)
Metroid Prime (Clark Wen)
Resident Evil Zero (Kenji Shibazaki)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Ashif Hakik, Boyd Post, Ian Rodia)
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs (Nathan Brenholdt)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem Steven S. Henifin
Silicon Knights
2003 Sound Effects
Armed and Dangerous (Michael Frayne)
Silent Hill 3 (Akira Yamaoka)
Call of Duty
Rik W. Schaffer, Chuck Russom, Jack Grillo

Infinity Ward
2004 Sound Effects
Call of Duty: United Offensive (Justin Skomarovsky)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Sōtarō Tojima, Hiroe Noguchi, Waichiro Ozaki, Ryoji Makimura, Akihiro Honda, Kazunori Hideya, Masashi Watanabe)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Clark Wen, Scott Petersen)
Pikmin 2 (Takahiro Watanabe)
Doom 3 Christian Antkow, Ed Lima, Rik Schaffer, Chris Vrenna

id Software
2005 Sound Effects
F.E.A.R. (Kristofor Mellroth, Brian Pamintuan, Kristen Quebe)
God of War (Jonathan Hawkins, Jason McDonald)
Quake 4 (Zachary Quarles, Kevin Schilder)
Resident Evil 4 (Misao Senbongi)
Call of Duty 2 Mark Ganus
Infinity Ward
2006 Sound Effects
Call of Duty 3 (Chris Cowell, Steve Goldberg, Scott Purvis, Gary Spinrad, Brian Tuey)
Company of Heroes (Rusty Dunn)
Dead Rising (Arata Iwashina, Hiroaki Igarashi)
Gears of War (Jamey Scott)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Mark Lampert
Bethesda Game Studios
2007 Sound Effects
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (John Paul Fasal)
Crysis (Christian Schilling Muyshondt)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Christian Antkow)
The Orange Box
BioShock Emily Ridgway
2K Boston
2008 Sound Effects
Gears of War 2 (Joey Kuras, Jamey Scott)
Left 4 Dead
Mirror's Edge (Pedro Alfageme, Matthew Wilson)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (David Wayne Collins)
Dead Space Don Veca, Dave Feise, Andrew Lackey, David Swenson, Chris Chikes, Marcus Egan, Jason Heffel, David Farmer, William Rudolph
EA Redwood Shores
2009 Sound Effects
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley)
Dead Space: Extraction (Steve Duckworth, Xan Williams, Duncan Bradshaw, Lee Campbell, Guy Cockcroft, Jeremy Corbett, Jim Croft, Sarah Scott, Kevin Stainwright, Mark Topley)
Left 4 Dead 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Lydian Tone)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Mark Ganus, John Paul Fasal
Infinity Ward
2010 Sound Effects
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Ben Minto, Bence Pajor, Mari Saastamoinen)
BioShock 2 (George Spanos)
Final Fantasy XIII (Masayuki Sato)
God of War III (Paul M. Fox, Chris Hegstrom)
Call of Duty: Black Ops Brian Tuey, Chris Cowell
Treyarch
2011 Sound Effects
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Adam Boyd, Earbash Audio Inc., Wabi Sabi Sound)
Clone Wars Adventures: Battle of Umbara
Dead Space 2 (J. White)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Lydian Tone, Chris Pinkston, Mark Camperell, Ronald Dutch Hill)
Portal 2 N/A
Valve Corporation
2012 Sound Effects
Assassin's Creed III (Ian MacBeth, Martin Weissberg, Dominique Voegelé),)
Far Cry 3 (Jens Jungmark)
Resident Evil 6 (Yasuyuki Tsujino)
Sine Mora (Tamás Kreiner)
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor (Hideyuki Eto)
Halo 4 Sotaro Tojima
343 Industries
2013 Sound Effects
Bioshock: Infinite (Scott Haraldsen)
Dead Space 3 (Andrew Boyd, Joseph Concha, Michael Caisley, Geoff Garnett (Wabi Sabi), Damian Kastbauer, Andrew Lackey (Wabi Sabi), David Levison, David Lowmiller, RJ Mattingly, Robb Mills, Bill Rudolph, Sean Vora, Michael Wilga)
God of War: Ascension (Paul Poduska)
Metro: Last Light (Andrew Prohorov (PROF), Dimitriy Dyachenko, Dmitry Kuzmenko)
The Last of Us Phil Kovats
Naughty Dog
2014 Sound Effects
Destiny (Jay Weinland)
Infamous Second Son
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Michael Norris)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Austin Shannon)
Alien: Isolation Mark Angus
Creative Assembly
2015 Sound Effects
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Anthony Hales)
Fallout 4 (Dave Schreiber)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Jack Grillo)
The Order: 1886 (Carsten Rojahn)
Star Wars Battlefront Philip Eriksson, David Jegutidse, Gustav Rathsman, Martin Wöhrer
Electronic Arts
2016 Sound Effects
Battlefield 1 (Bence Pajor)
Dishonored 2 (Thomas Mitton)
MLB The Show 16 (Steve Conrad, Kurt Kellenberger)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Phil Kovats)
Far Cry Primal Mohamed Rabia
Ubisoft Montreal
2017 Sound Effects
Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package
Dirt 4
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard N/A
Capcom


Sound Mixing in Virtual Reality



























Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2016 Sound Mixing in Virtual Reality
Edge of Nowhere
The Climb
The Lab
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
Adr1ft Viktor Phoenix Three One Zero
2017 Sound Mixing in Virtual Reality Fallout 4 VR
Lone Echo
Skyrim VR
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard TBD
Capcom


Supporting Performance in a Comedy



















































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2005 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
Psychonauts (Earl Boen as Butcher)
Psychonauts (Mark Ivanir as Mikhail Bulgakov)
Psychonauts (David Kaye as Ford Cruller)
Psychonauts (Armin Shimerman as Raz's Father)

Psychonauts (Sherrie Jackson as Quentin Hedgemouse)
Sherrie Jackson
Double Fine Productions
2006 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine (John Bell as Various Voices)
Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love (Richard Horvitz as Orthopox and Suburban Crazy)
Family Guy (Seth Green as Chris Griffin)

Bully (Peter Vack as Gary Smith)
Peter Vack
Rockstar Vancouver
2007 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
PaRappa the Rapper (Lea Alomar as Sunny Funny)
PaRappa the Rapper (Armstead Christian as PJ Berri and Parappa's Dad)
Surf’s Up (Jeff Bridges as Big Z and Geek)

The Simpsons Game (Will Wright as himself)
Will Wright
Electronic Arts
2008 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
Crash: Mind over Mutant (Nolan North as Dr. N. Gin)
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Richard Steven Horvitz as Orthopox)
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (James Horan as Saxon)
Secret Agent Clank (Jim Ward as Captain Qwark)

Little Big Planet (Stephen Fry as the Narrator)
Stephen Fry
Media Molecule
2009 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
Brütal Legend (Tim Curry as Doviculus)
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (Neil Patrick Harris)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Jim Ward as Captain Qwark)
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (Earl Boen as LeChuck)

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman)
Bill Murray Red Fly Studio
2010 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame (R. Lee Ermey as Wildcat)
Bayonetta (Richard Epcar as Antonio)
Bayonetta (Stephanie Sheh as Cereza)
Bayonetta (Yuri Lowenthal as Luka and Temperantia)

Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame (Paul Reubens as Bat-Mite)
Paul Reubens
WayForward Technologies
2011 Performance in Comedy, Supporting
Bulletstorm (Anthony De Longis as General Sarrano)
Bulletstorm (Chris Cox as Rell)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Colin McFarlane as Avalon Centrifuge)

Shadows of the Damned (Greg Ellis as Johnson)
Greg Ellis
Grasshopper Manufacture
2012 Supporting Performance, Comedy
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (Frank Welker as Oswald)
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Steven Blum as Ra’s, Penguin, Bane and Alfred)
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Rob Paulsen as the Riddler)
Thomas Was Alone (Danny Wallace as the Narrator)

Borderlands 2 (Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack)
Dameon Clarke
Gearbox Software
2013 Performance in a Comedy, Supporting
DuckTales Remastered (June Foray as Ma Beagle)
DuckTales Remastered (Russi Taylor as Webby, Huey, Dewey and Louie)
Puppeteer (Nick Ellsworth as Moon Bear King)
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Yuri Lowenthal as Sir Galleth)

Lego City Undercover (Trevor White as Frank Honey)
Trevor White
TT Games
2014 Performance in a Comedy, Supporting
Broken Age: Act I (David Kaufman as Marek)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Brian Beacock as Monokuma)
Little Big Planet 3 (Hugh Laurie as Newton)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Matt Stone as Various Voices)

South Park: The Stick of Truth - Trey Parker as Various Voices
Trey Parker
Obsidian Entertainment, South Park Digital Studios
2015 Performance in a Comedy, Supporting
Minecraft: Story Mode (Martha Plimpton as Olivia)
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Chris Cason as Tatsu)

Tales from the Borderlands (Erin Yvette as Sasha)
Erin Yvette
Telltale Games
Gearbox Software
2016 Performance in a Comedy, Supporting
King's Quest Chapter V: The Good Knight (Wallace Shawn as Manny)
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Harrison Ford as Han Solo)
Ratchet & Clank (Jim Ward as Captain Qwark)
Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (Inori Minase as Tsubasa)

Lego Marvel's Avengers (Stan Lee as himself)
Stan Lee
Traveller's Tales
2017 Performance in a Comedy, Supporting
Agents of Mayhem (Eliza Schneider as Agent Rama)
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2
(Dar Dash) as Hawkeye)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Adam Harrington as Groot)
Adam Harrington
Telltale Games


Supporting Performance in a Drama





















































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2005 Performance in Drama, Supporting
Gun (Kris Kristofferson as Ned White)
The Warriors (Dorsey Wright as Cleon)
True Crime: New York City (Laurence Fishburne as Isaiah Reed)
True Crime: New York City (Christopher Walken as F.B.I. Agent Gabriel Whitting)

Jade Empire (John Cleese as Sir Roderick)
John Cleese
BioWare
2006 Performance in Drama, Supporting
24: The Game (Andreas Katsulas as Governor Radford)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Terence Stamp as Mankar Camoran)
Final Fantasy XII (Catherine Taber as Penelo)
Kingdom Hearts II (Christopher Lee as DiZ/Ansem the Wise)

Neverwinter Nights 2 (Adam Sietz as Khelgar, Elgun and the King of Shadows)
Adam Sietz
Obsidian Entertainment
2007 Performance in Drama, Supporting
God of War II (Linda Hunt as the Narrator)
Heavenly Sword (Andy Serkis as King Bohan)
Mass Effect (Fred Tatasciore as Saren Arterius)

Mass Effect (Cam Clarke as Private Fredricks)
Cam Clarke
BioWare
2008 Performance in Drama, Supporting
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Mike Neumann as Cpl. Sam Corrion)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Gideon Emery as PFC Dawson)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Jason Zumwalt as Roman Bellic)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Nathalie Cox as Juno Eclipse)

Grand Theft Auto IV (Timothy Adams as Brucie Kibbutz)
Timothy Adams
Rockstar North
2009 Performance in Drama, Supporting
Assassin's Creed II (Roger Craig Smith as Ezio Auditore da Firenze)
Dragon Age: Origins (Tim Curry as Arl Howe)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Emily Rose as Elena Fisher)

Batman: Arkham Asylum (Mark Hamill as the Joker)
Mark Hamill
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Performance in Drama, Supporting
Alan Wake (Fred Berman as Barry Wheeler)
Fallout: New Vegas (Felicia Day as Veronica Santangelo)
Heavy Rain (Sam Douglas as Scott Shelby)
Red Dead Redemption (Sophia Marzocchi as Abigail Marston)

God of War III (Rip Torn as Hephaestus)
Rip Torn
SIE Santa Monica Studio
2011 Performance in Drama, Supporting
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Kevin McKidd as Soap)
Catherine (Yuri Lowenthal as Tobias Nebbins)
L.A. Noire (Will Collyer as James Tiernan)
L.A. Noire (Erika Heynatz as Elsa Lichtmann)

Catherine (Michelle Ruff as Katherine McBride)
Michelle Ruff
Atlus
2012 Performance in Drama, Supporting
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (Matthew Porretta as Mr. Scratch)
Dear Esther (Nigel Carrington as the Narrator)
Syndicate (Rosario Dawson as Lily Drawl)
The Last Story (Blake Ritson as Lord Jirall)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Jenna-Louise Coleman as Melia)

The Walking Dead (Melissa Hutchison as Clementine)
Melissa Hutchison
Telltale Games
2013 Performance in a Drama, Supporting
Beyond: Two Souls (Willem Dafoe as Nathan Dawkins)
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Steffan Rhodri as Drippy)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (Laura Bailey as Nemissa)
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 – Faith (Chuck Kourouklis as Toad)

Bioshock Infinite (Courtnee Draper as Elizabeth)
Courtnee Draper
Irrational Games
2014 Performance in a Drama, Supporting
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Corinne Kempa as Leliana)
The Walking Dead: Season Two (Gavin Hammon as Kenny)
The Walking Dead: Season Two (Scott Porter as Luke)
Watch Dogs (Aaron Douglas as Jordi Chin)

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Phil LaMarr as Ratbag)
Phil LaMarr
Monolith Productions
2015 Performance in a Drama, Supporting
Batman: Arkham Knight (John Noble as Scarecrow)
Fallout 4 (Stephen Russell as Codsworth/Nick Valentine)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (William Roberts as Uncle Vesemir)
Until Dawn (Brett Dalton as Mike)

Batman: Arkham Knight (Mark Hamill as the Joker)
Mark Hamill
Rocksteady Studios
2016 Performance in a Drama, Supporting
Darkest Dungeon (Wayne June as the Narrator)
Final Fantasy XV (Amy Shiels as Lunafreya Nox Fleuret)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine (MyAnna Buring as Anna Henrietta)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Emily Rose as Elena Fisher)

Quantum Break (Aidan Gillen as Paul Serene)
Aidan Gillen
Remedy Entertainment
2017 Performance in a Drama, Supporting
Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court (Wayne June as Narrator)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Katie O’Hagan as Mia)
Tales of Berseria (Monica Rial as Bienfu)
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Troy Baker as Samuel Drakeï)

Batman: The Enemy Within (Debra Wilson as Amanda Waller)
Debra Wilson
Telltale Games


Use of Sound











































































































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Use of Sound
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (David Rovin)
Final Fantasy X (Minoru Akao)
Frequency (Josh Randall)
Ico (Masaaki Kaneko)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Kazuki Muraoka, Akihiro Honda, Maki Kirioka, Syuichi Kobori, Kazuki Muraoka, Alan Meyerson
Konami
2002 Use of Sound
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Denis Dyack)
Metroid Prime (Clark Wen)
Resident Evil Zero (Ichiro Kohmoto)
Steel Battalion (Collette Sunderman, Tomomitsu Matsushita)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Allan Walker, Craig Conner, Raymond Usher, Stuart Ross, Will Morton, Dan Houser, Navid Khonsari

Rockstar North
2003 Use of Sound
Call of Duty (Chuck Russom)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Jérémi Valiquette)
Tron 2.0 (James Ackley)
Silent Hill 3 Akira Yamaoka
Konami
2004 Use of Sound
Doom 3 (Christian Antkow)
Half-Life 2
Myst IV: Revelation (Mathieu Jeanson)
Thief: Deadly Shadows (Eric Brosius)
Silent Hill 4: The Room N/A
Konami
2005 Use of Sound
God of War (Jonathan Hawkins, Jason McDonald)
King Kong (Yoan Fanise)
Resident Evil 4 (Misao Senbongi)
The Suffering: Ties That Bind (Nick Radovich)
F.E.A.R. James Ackley, Kristofor Mellroth, Brian Pamintuan, Kristen Quebe, Ron Fish
Monolith Productions
2006 Use of Sound
Company of Heroes (Jennifer Lewis)
Guitar Hero II (Jamey Scott)
Ōkami (Atsushi Mori)
Resistance: Fall of Man (Alan Gerrard, Chris Braymen, Jim Sproul, Laurent Betbeder, Richard Griffiths)
Gears of War Jamey Scott
Epic Games
2007 Use of Sound
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Adam Levenson)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Christian Antkow)
Everyday Shooter (Jonathan Mak)
Treasure Tunes
Flow N/A
Thatgamecompany
2008 Use of Sound
Auditorium
Fallout 3 (Mark Lampert)
Gears of War 2 (Caesar Filori)
Patapon (Kemmei Adachi, Daisuke Miyake)
Dead Space Don Veca, Dave Feise, Andrew Lackey, David Swenson
EA Redwood Shores
2009 Use of Sound
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Mark Ganus)
Dead Space: Extraction (Don Veca)
Left 4 Dead 2
Patapon 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley
Rocksteady Studios
2010 Use of Sound
Alan Wake (Mark Yeend)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Brian Tuey)
Chime
Heavy Rain (Stephen O'Callaghan, Ash Sargant)
Red Dead Redemption (Jeffrey R. Whitcher)
Limbo Martin Stig Andersen
Playdead
2011 Use of Sound in a Franchise
Dead Space 2 (Andrew Boyd)
F.E.A.R. 3 (Richard Carle)
Rayman Origins (Christophe Héral)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Tom Hays)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Mark Ganus
Infinity Ward
2011 Use of Sound, New IP
Catherine (Atsushi Kitajoh)
L.A. Noire (Matthew Smith)
Pulse
Rage (Christian Antkow)
Papa Sangre N/A
Somethin' Else
2012 Use of Sound, Franchise
Mass Effect 3 (Rob Blake)
Max Payne 3 (Matthew Smith)
Sniper Elite V2 (Nick Brewer)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Garin Hiebert, Jim Sproul, Joshua Breindel, Laurent Betbeder, Nicky Hind, Jianhua Shen, Carlo Vogelsang)
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Brian Tuey
Treyarch
2012 Use of Sound, New IP
Journey (Steve Johnson)
Mark of the Ninja (Matthew Marteinsson, Daniel Gagnon)
The Last Story (Hirotomi Imoto)
The Walking Dead (Lazar Levine)
Sound Shapes Shaw-Han Liem Queasy Games
SIE Santa Monica Studio
2013 Use of Sound, Franchise
Battlefield 4 (Andrew Boyd, Paul Gorman)
Dead Space 3 (Nick Laviers)
Rayman Legends
Saints Row IV
Bioshock: Infinite Scott Haraldsen
Irrational Games
2013 Use of Sound, New IP
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Antichamber
Beyond: Two Souls (Xavier Despas)
Outlast (Jonathan Wachoru)
The Last of Us Phil Kovats
Naughty Dog
2014 Use of Sound, Franchise
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Anders Clerwall)
Far Cry 4 (Yassine Abouelfalah)
Infamous Second Son
Alien: Isolation Mark Angus
Creative Assembly
2014 Use of Sound, New IP
Among the Sleep
Child of Light (Hugo Bastien)
Titanfall (Bryan Watkins, Mitchell Osias)
Tomodachi Life
Destiny Jay Weinland
Bungie
2015 Use of Sound, Franchise
Fallout 4 (Dave Schreiber)
King's Quest Chapter I: A Knight to Remember (Hexany Audio)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Jack Grillo)
Super Mario Maker (Koichi Kyuma)
Star Wars Battlefront Philip Eriksson, David Jegutidse, Gustav Rathsman, Martin Wöhrer
Electronic Arts
2015 Use of Sound, New IP
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Anthony Hales)
Evolve (Caron Weidner, Michael C. Schapiro)
The Order: 1886 (Carsten Rojahn)
Until Dawn (Adam Rowley, Joanna Orland, Alan McDermott, Jordan Pedder, Dylan Vadamootoo, Simon Gumbleton, Garry Taylor, Stephen O'Callaghan, Iain Hetherington, Tim Shepherd)
Crypt of the Necrodancer N/A Brace Yourself Games
2016 Use of Sound, Franchise
Dishonored 2 (Thomas Mitton)
DOOM (Chris Hite, Chad Mossholder)
Far Cry Primal (Mohamed Rabia)
Mafia III (Matt Bauer)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Phil Kovats
Naughty Dog
2016 Use of Sound, New IP
Dead by Daylight
Inside (Andreas Frostholm Roeboe)
Quantum Break (Richard Lapington)
The Flame in the Flood (Pat Balthrop)
Tom Clancy's The Division Simon Koudriavtsev
Massive Entertainment
2017 Use of Sound, Franchise
Assassin's Creed Origins
Destiny 2
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Outlast 2
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard N/A
Capcom
2017 Use of Sound, New IP
Hidden Folks
Horizon Zero Dawn
Little Nightmares
Observer
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice' N/A
Ninja Theory


Writing in a Comedy



















































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2005 Writing, Comedy
Destroy All Humans! (Tom Abernathy)
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich (Ken Levine)
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Lorne Lanning, Gautam Babbar)
Psychonauts
Tim Schafer
Erik Wolpaw

Double Fine Productions
2006 Writing, Comedy
Bully (Dan Houser, Jacob Krarup)
Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love (Tom Abernathy)
Elite Beat Agents (Koji Ito, Kishiko Miyagi)
Viva Pinata
Sam & Max: Episode 1
Brendan Q. Ferguson, David Grossman, Steve Purcell

Telltale Games
2007 Writing, Comedy
Dead Head Fred
Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck
Super Paper Mario
Team Fortress 2
The Simpsons Game N/A
Electronic Arts
2008 Writing, Comedy
American McGee's Grimm
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Mical Pedriana)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (Merrill Hagan)
No More Heroes (Goichi Suda)
Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 1 Jerry Holkins
Hothead Games
2009 Writing, Comedy
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan (Sean Vanaman)
The House of the Dead: Overkill (Jonathan Burroughs)
Wallace & Gromit Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees (Andy Hartzell)
Brütal Legend Tim Schafer
Double Fine Productions
2010 Writing, Comedy
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Takeshi Yamazaki, Sou Mayumi, Yuichirou Akita)
Costume Quest (Gabe Miller, Elliott Roberts)
DeathSpank
Guilty Party (Wideload Games)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame N/A
WayForward Technologies
2011 Writing, Comedy
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Stacking (Lee Petty)
The Baconing Herschel Leibovitz
Hothead Games
2012 Writing, Comedy
Abobo's Big Adventure
Borderlands 2
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Jon Burton)
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Robert Boyd, Jerry Holkins)
WWE '13
Thomas Was Alone Mike Bithell
Bossa Studios
Curve Digital
2013 Writing in a Comedy
Deadpool (Daniel Way)
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Lucien Soulban)
Lego City Undercover
Saints Row IV
The Stanley Parable Davey Wreden, William Pugh
Galactic Café
2014 Writing in a Comedy
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Shu Takumi)
Jazzpunk (Luis Hernandez, Jess Brouse)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Kazutaka Kodaka)
Broken Age (Tim Schafer)
South Park: The Stick of Truth Eric Fenstermaker, Trey Parker
Matt Stone

Obsidian Entertainment
South Park Digital Studios
2015 Writing in a Comedy
Minecraft: Story Mode (Laura Jacqmin, Michael Choung)
Tales from the Borderlands N/A
Telltale Games
Gearbox Software
2016 Writing in a Comedy
Day of the Tentacle Remastered (Dave Grossman, Tim Schafer, Gary Winnick)
Headlander (Lee Petty)
King's Quest Chapter III: Once Upon a Climb
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (Shunsuke Kobayashi)
Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives N/A
Owlchemy Labs
2017 Writing in a Comedy
Agents of Mayhem
Oxenfree
Rise & Shine
Thimbleweed Park
Night in the Woods N/A
Alec Holowka, Infinite Fall, Secret Lab


Writing in a Drama



















































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2005 Writing, Drama
God of War (Marianne Krawczyk, Alexander Stein, David Jaffe, Keith Fay)
Killer7 (Suda 51, Shinji Mikami)
Resident Evil 4
The Warriors
Indigo Prophecy David Cage
Quantic Dream
2006 Writing, Drama
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Ted Peterson, Michael Kirkbride)
Final Fantasy XII (Daisuke Watanabe, Miwa Shoda)
Rule of Rose (Hiromasa Inoue, Masahiko Maezawa, Minako Toyoda)
Suikoden V (Kazuyoshi Tsugawa)
Neverwinter Nights 2 Charles Mead
Obsidian Entertainment
2007 Writing, Drama
Eternal Sonata
Heavenly Sword (Rhianna Pratchett, Tameem Antoniades, Andy Serkis)
Odin Sphere (George Kamitani)
Persona 3 (Yuichiroh Tanaka)
Mass Effect
Drew Karpyshyn, Lukas Kristjanson, Christopher L'Etoile, Mac Walters, Patrick Weekes

BioWare
2008 Writing, Drama
Braid (Jonathan Blow)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Mike Neumann)
Chrono Trigger (Masato Kato)
Lost Odyssey (Hironobu Sakaguchi)
Fallout 3 Emil Pagliarulo
Bethesda Game Studios
2009 Writing, Drama
Assassin's Creed II (Corey G. May, Michael Wendschuh)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Paul Dini)
Dragon Age: Origins (David Gaider)
inFamous
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Michael Hourihan
Naughty Dog
2010 Writing, Drama
Alan Wake (Sami Järvi)
Fallout: New Vegas (Chris Avellone, Eric Fenstermaker, Travis Stout)
Heavy Rain (David Cage)
Mass Effect 2 (Mac Walters, Drew Karpyshyn)
Red Dead Redemption
Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth, Christian Cantamessa, Rupert Humphries

Rockstar San Diego
2011 Writing, Drama
Brink (Edward Stern)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Paul Haggis, Will Staples)
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Sebastian Stępień)
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Amy Hennig)
Catherine N/A
Atlus
2012 Writing, Drama
Far Cry 3 (Jeffrey Yohalem)
Mass Effect 3 (Mac Walters)
Spec Ops: The Line (Richard Pearsey, Walt Williams)
The Darkness II (Paul Jenkins, Chad Rocco, Jack Scalici, Robbie Thompson, Walt Williams)
The Last Story
The Walking Dead Sean Vanaman
Telltale Games
2013 Writing in a Drama
Beyond: Two Souls (David Cage)
Bioshock: Infinite (Ken Levine)
Gone Home
Remember Me (Alain Damasio, Stéphane Beauverger)
The Last of Us Neil Druckmann
Naughty Dog
2014 Writing in a Drama
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Mark Boal, Eric Hirshberg, John Maclnnes)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (David Gaider)
Infamous First Light
The Wolf Among Us (Pierre Shorette)
The Walking Dead: Season Two Nick Breckon, Andrew Grant
Telltale Games
2015 Writing in a Drama
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Craig Houston)
Fallout 4 (Emil Pagliarulo)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life Is Strange (Christian Divine)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Arkadiusz Borowik, Jakub Szamałek, Karolina Stachyra, Aleksandra Motyka, Bartosz Von Ochman
CD Projekt Red
2016 Writing in a Drama
1979 Revolution: Black Friday (Navid Khonsari, Brian Wood)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Brian Bloom, Taylor Kurosaki)
Quantum Break (Mikko Rautalahti, Tyler Smith)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Neil Druckmann, Josh Scherr, Tom Bissell, Ryan James)
Firewatch
Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Olly Moss, Sean Vanaman

Campo Santo
2017 Writing in a Drama
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Horizon Zero Dawn
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Nier: Automata
Persona 5 N/A
Atlus, P Studio


Discontinued Categories



Innovation in Game Play



































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Innovation in Game Play
Frequency (Dan Schmidt)
Grand Theft Auto III (Craig Filshie, William Mills, Chris Rothwell, James Worrall)
Halo (John Howard)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, Lorne Lanning)
Pikmin Hiroaki Takenaka, Masamichi Abe (ewp), Shigefumi Hino (ewp)
Nintendo
2002 Innovation in Game Play
Metroid Prime (Mark Pacini)
Rez (Katsuhiko Yamada)
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs (Graham Keys)
Steel Battalion (Masaki Higuchi)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Animal Crossing Naoki Mori (ewp), Katsuya Eguchi (ewp), Hisashi Nogami (ewp)
Nintendo
2003 Innovation in Game Play
Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand (Hideo Kojima)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Jordan Mechner)
EyeToy: Play Ron Festejo
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2004 Innovation in Game Play
EyeToy: AntiGrav (Dan Schmidt)
Fable (Peter Molyneux, Dene Carter, Ben Huskins, Mark Webley)
Full Spectrum Warrior (Richard Wyckoff)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (Satoru Iwata
Shigeru Miyamoto)
Katamari Damacy Keita Takahashi
Namco
2005 Innovation in Game Play
Lumines
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Kazuya Nuri)
The Movies (Adrian Moore)
WarioWare: Touched!
Nintendogs Junji Morii, Kiyoshi Mizuki, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto
Nintendo
2006 Innovation in Game Play
Electroplankton (Toshio Iwai)
LocoRoco (Tsutomu Kouno)
Odama (Yutaka Saitō)
Viva Pinata (Gregg Mayles, Justin Cook, Gavin Price, Matthew Carter)
Nintendo Wii N/A
Nintendo
2007 Innovation in Game Play
Crush (Alex Butterfield)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Steve Fawkner)
The Eye of Judgment (Yusuke Watanabe, Shou Asano (Paical Inc.), Kyousuke Wakasa, Eiji Yamada, Sho Suga)
The Ship (Simon Hill, Duncan Blair)
Drawn to Life Jeremiah Slaczka
5th Cell
2008 Innovation in Game Play
Auditorium
Boom Blox (Yoshitomo George Moriwaki)
Mirror's Edge (Thomas Andersson)
World of Goo (Kyle Gabler)
Little Big Planet
Mark Healey, David Smith

Media Molecule
2009 Innovation in Game Play
Demon's Souls (Daisuke Satake, Hiroshi Nakamura, Masahiro Miki, Wataru Inata, Masaya Shiraishi, Tetsuya Amabiki)
Half-Minute Hero (Kiichi Hosaka, Koichi Takazawa, Kazuo Araki, Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Toshinari Fujii)
inFamous)
LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias (Steven Burgess)
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor (David Kalina)
Tilt: An Adventure in 1.5 Dimensions
Scribblenauts Jeremiah Slaczka
5th Cell
2010 Innovation in Game Play
Chime
Echoshift
Max & the Magic Marker (Mikhail Akopyan)
WarioWare D.I.Y.
Heavy Rain Caroline Marchal
Quantic Dream
2011 Innovation in Game Play
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (François Lapikas, Antoine Thisdale, Pierre-Francis Lafleur)
Minecraft (Markus Persson)
Rayman Origins (Lorenzo Avi, Julien Chevalier, Romain Claude, Axel Cossardeaux)
Spacechem (Zach Barth)
Lost in Shadow Masakazu Echigo
Hudson Soft


Innovation in Game Technology



















































































































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Innovation in Game Technology
Bomberman Online (Kouji Yamamoto)
NFL 2K2 (Christopher Larson)
Ooga Booga (Nathan Bamberger)
Phantasy Star Online
Halo Chris Butcher, Bernie Freidin, Charles Gough, Mat Noguchi, Matt Segur, Eamon McKenzie, Stefan Sinclair, Ben Wallace, Michael Evans, Chris Carney, David Dunn, Peter Marks, Derrick Moore, Stephen Okasaki, Adrian Perez
Bungie
2002 Innovation in Game Technology
Animal Crossing (Yuhiki Ōtsuki)
e-Reader
Steel Battalion (Masaki Higuchi)
WaveBird
Xbox Live N/A
Microsoft
2003 Innovation, Game Technology
Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand (Hideo Kojima)
Game Boy Advance SP
Karaoke Revolution (Christine Legge)
Xbox Music Mixer
EyeToy Richard Marks, Ph.D.
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2004 Innovation in Game Technology
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Fredrik Ljungdahl, Jens Andersson)
Donkey Konga
EyeToy: AntiGrav (Dan Schmidt)
Taiko: Drum Master (Takeharu Kijima)
Nintendo DS N/A
Nintendo
2005 Innovation in Game Technology
Nintendogs (Yoji Inagaki)
PlayStation Portable
The Movies (Adrian Moore)
WarioWare: Twisted! (Noriyuki Sato, Norikatsu Furuta, Ko Takeuchi, Kazuyoshi Osawa, Takaya Fujii, Goro Abe, Hideo Hatayama, Yasutaka Takeuchi, Kyoko Watanabe, Ryutaro Takahashi, Osamu Yamauchi, Kenichi Nishimaki, Toshihiro Nishii, Kenji Matsumoto, Yuki Tsuji, Masanobu Matsunaga, Naoko Mori, Masaru Nishimura, Youhei Kubotsu, Kazuhiko Furukawa, Kazuhito Norimoto, Yasuhito Fujisawa, Eiko Haruki, Naotaka Ohnishi, Teruyuki Hirosawa, Mami Nishimura, Yasuhisa Baba, Masayuki Taira, Yukie Kuwa)
Guitar Hero
Eran Egozy, Eric Malafeew, Phil Winston

Harmonix
2006 Innovation in Game Technology Havok FX 4.0
Sony PlayStation 3
Unreal Engine 3
Vivox Precision Studio
Nintendo Wii N/A
Nintendo
2007 Innovation in Game Technology
The Eye of Judgment (Yusuke Watanabe, Shou Asano (Paical Inc.), Kyousuke Wakasa, Eiji Yamada, Sho Suga)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Richard A. Baker, Robert Field, Francesco Gigliotti, Earl Hammon Jr.
Infinity Ward
2008 Innovation in Game Technology
Gamebryo 2.5
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hideo Kojima)
Mirror's Edge (Thomas Andersson)
Torque Game Engine Advanced 1.7.1
Fallout 3 Steve Meister
Bethesda Game Studios
2009 Innovation in Game Technology
DJ Hero
Unity Engine
Red Faction: Guerrilla Eric Arnold, Jay Kreibich
Volition
2010 Innovation in Game Technology
Heavy Rain (Sophie Buhl)
OnLive
uDraw GameTablet
XNA Game Studio 4
Kinect Professor Andrew Blake
Microsoft
2011 Innovation, Game Technology
Child of Eden (Eiichiro Ishige)
Just Dance 3
Rayman Origins (Mihnea Ilicevici)
Rift (Drew Clowery, Christopher Junior, Matthew Kelley, Andrew Krausnick, Joshua Kurtz, Adrian Lim, Ian Noble, Gina Reams)
L.A. Noire Oliver Bao
Team Bondi
2012 Innovation, Game Technology
Gaikai
Gameglobe
Google Native Client NaCl
Symphony
Sphero N/A Orbotix
2013 Innovation in Game Technology
iPad Air
Ouya
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Oculus Rift Development Kit Palmer Luckey
Oculus Rift
2014 Innovation in Game Technology EyePlay
Assassin's Creed Unity (Frédérick Champoux)
P.T. N/A
Konami
2015 Innovation in Game Technology ANT VR
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Martin Donlon, Trevor Walker)
Grow Home (Andrew Willans, Justin Lim)
Guitar Hero Live
Valve Steam Controller N/A
Valve
2016 Innovation in Game Technology
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Julien Bouvrais)
DOOM (Jake Campbell)
Eagle Flight
No Man's Sky
HTC Vive N/A
HTC
2017 Innovation in Game Technology
Farpoint
Gran Turismo Sport
Hidden Agenda
StarBlood Arena
Horizon Zero Dawn Michiel de Leeuw
Guerrilla Games


Original Musical Score



















































































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Original Musical Score
Devil May Cry (Masami Ueda)
Final Fantasy Chronicles
Final Fantasy X (Junya Nakano
Masashi Hamauzu)
Onimusha: Warlords (Nariyuki Nobuyama, Kōtarō Matsumoto, Takashi Uno, Toshihiko Horiyama)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Harry Gregson-Williams, Norihiko Hibino, Rika Muranaka

Konami
2002 Original Musical Score
Jet Set Radio Future
Medal of Honor: Frontline (Michael Giacchino)
Metroid Prime (Kenji Yamamoto, Kouichi Kyuuma)
Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II
Kingdom Hearts Yoko Shimomura
Square Enix
2003 Original Musical Score
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Kenta Nagata, Hajimi Wakai, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo)
Secret Weapons Over Normandy (Michael Giacchino)
Silent Hill 3 Akira Yamaoka
Konami
2004 Original Musical Score
Fable (Russell Shaw)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Kumi Tanioka)
Katamari Damacy
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Akari Kaida, Hideki Okugawa, Kota Suzuki)
Halo 2 Martin O'Donnell
Bungie
2005 Original Musical Score
Advent Rising (Tommy Tallarico, Michael Richard Plowman, Emmanuel Fratianni)
Destroy All Humans! (Garry Schyman)
Jade Empire (Jack Wall)
Shadow of the Colossus (Kow Otani)
Dragon Quest VIII Kōichi Sugiyama
Level-5
2006 Original Musical Score
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Leon Willett)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Jeremy Soule)
Final Fantasy XII (Hitoshi Sakimoto)
Suikoden V (Yoshihiro Tsukahara, Takashi Watanabe, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Chiharu Mukaiyama)
Company of Heroes Jeremy Soule
Relic Entertainment
2007 Original Musical Score
Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War
Dead Head Fred (Rod Abernethy, Jason Graves)
Lair (John Debney)
Universe at War: Earth Assault (Frank Klepacki)
Mass Effect
Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Richard Jacques, David Kates

BioWare
2008 Original Musical Score
Castle Crashers (David Orr, Selcuk Bor, Waterflame, Cycerin, Snayk, Piercing Lazer, ParagonX9, Helix, Ian Slider, Will Stamper)
Chrono Trigger (Yasunori Mitsuda
Nobuo Uematsu)
Resistance 2 (Boris C. Salchow)
World of Goo (Kyle Gabler)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Russell Brower, Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford)
Patapon Kemmei Adachi, Daisuke Miyake Pyramid
SIE Japan Studio
2009 Original Musical Score
Afro Samurai (Howard Drossin)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Hans Zimmer
Lorne Balfe)
Dragon Age: Origins (Inon Zur)
inFamous (Amon Tobin, James Michael Dooley, Mel Wesson, Jonathan Mayer, Martin Tilman)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Greg Edmonson
Naughty Dog


Voice Performance



























Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2002 Voice Performance
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Dennis Hopper)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Matt Olsen)
Spider-Man: The Movie (Bruce Campbell)
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth (Greg Brown)
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth (Kirk McHenry)
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth (Sherrie Jackson)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Ray Liotta)
Ray Liotta
Rockstar North
2003 Voice Performance
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (Bruce Campbell)
Primal (Andreas Katsulas)
Primal (Hudson Leick)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Raphael Sbarge)

XIII (Adam West)
Adam West
Ubisoft


Voice Performance, Lead



















Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2004 Voice Performance, Lead
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Vin Diesel)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Michael Ironside)
The Bard's Tale (Cary Elwes)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Young Maylay)
Young Maylay
Rockstar North


Voice Performance, Supporting



















Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2004 Voice Performance, Supporting
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (David Cross)
Jak III (Max Casella)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Matt Olsen)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Dennis Haysbert)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Peter Fonda)
Peter Fonda
Rockstar North


Writing, Dialogue











































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Writing, Dialogue
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Chris Seavor)
Devil May Cry
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (Stanley Liu)
Okage: Shadow King
Final Fantasy X N/A
Square
2002 Writing, Dialogue
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
Kingdom Hearts (Teruaki Sugawara)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Timothy R. Miller, Pure Illusion)
Spider-Man: The Movie (Matthew B. Rhoades)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Dan Houser, James Worrall

Rockstar North
2003 Writing, Dialogue
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Final Fantasy X-2 (Teruaki Sugawara)
Jak II
Primal (Jonathan Ashley)
Armed and Dangerous Aaron Loeb, Timothy Williams
Planet Moon Studios
2004 Writing, Dialogue
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Andrea Toyias, Patrick McNutty)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Marilyn Teorey, Anthony Litton)
Katamari Damacy
The Bard's Tale (Mike Tallarico)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door N/A
Intelligent Systems


Writing, Story











































Year Category Nominees Winner Recipient(s) Developer
2001 Writing, Story
Final Fantasy X (Kazushige Nojima, Daisuke Watanabe, Motomu Toriyama)
Ico
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Lorne Lanning)
Soul Reaver 2 (Amy Hennig, Paul Jenkins, Kurt Harland, Richard Lemarchand)

Half-Life (Marc Laidlaw)
Marc Laidlaw
Valve Corporation
Gearbox Software
Sierra Studios
2002 Writing, Story
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Dan Houser, James Worrall)
Kingdom Hearts (Jun Akiyama, Daisuke Watanabe
Kazushige Nojima)
Metroid Prime (Nathan Bihldorff)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem Denis Dyack, Ken McCulloch
Silicon Knights
2003 Writing, Story
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Sami Järvi)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Jordan Mechner)
The Getaway (Brendan McNamara, Katie Ellwood)
Tron 2.0 (Steve Englehart)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Drew Karpyshyn
BioWare
2004 Writing, Story
Breakdown (Tadaaki Yokoyama, Masayoshi Takatori, Jun Nagase, Satoshi Imashiro)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Mikael Säker)
Fable (James Leach)
The Suffering (Richard Rouse III)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Dan Houser, James Worrall, DJ Pooh

Rockstar North


See also



  • Game Critics Awards

  • Spike VGA

  • Spotlight Awards GDC

  • BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards



References





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