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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]

Categories

Animation

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

Art Direction

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

Camera Direction

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

Character Design

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

Control Design

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

Control Precision

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

Game, Franchise Adventure

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

Game, Franchise Family

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

Game, Franchise Fighting

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

Game, Franchise Racing

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

Game, Franchise Role Playing

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

Game, Franchise Sports

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

Game, Music or Performance-Based

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

Game, Original Action

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

Game, Original Adventure

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

Game, Original Family

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

Game, Original Fighting

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

Game, Original Racing

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

Game, Original Role Playing

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

Lighting/Texturing

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

External links

• Official Page