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Winners: 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards

GDC 2011
by Meagan Marie on March 02, 2011 at 10:25 PM
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The 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards have concluded and the winners announced.

The results - selected by a vote from over 500 game creators - are highlighted in red.

Best Game Design
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Limbo (Playdead)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)

Innovation
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory)
Minecraft (Mojang)
Limbo (Playdead)
Dance Central (Harmonix)

Best Technology
Starcraft II (Blizzard)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)

Best Handheld Game
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Ready At Dawn/SCE Santa Monica)
Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Kojima Productions)
Game Dev Story (Kairosoft)
Dragon Quest IX (Level 5)

Best Audio
Limbo (Playdead)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Halo: Reach (Bungie)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DICE)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

Best Downloadable Game
Costume Quest (Double Fine)
Limbo (Playdead)
Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)
Minecraft (Mojang)
Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)

Best Writing
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Costume Quest (Double Fine)
Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian)

Best Debut Game
Limbo (Playdead)
Darksiders (Vigil Games)
Minecraft (Mojang)
Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)
Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)

Best Visual Arts
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Limbo (Playdead)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)

Game of the Year
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Limbo (Playdead)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)

Special Honors
Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Molyneux
Pioneer Award: Yu Suzuki
Ambassador Award: Tim Brengle and Ian MacKenzie

How do the results stack up in your opinion?

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  • by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:31 PM

    There was a big story in my local newspaper about Red Dead Redemption earlier this week, and at first I was thinking "A bit too late now," but then I realized why they were running the story. Congrats to Rockstar San Diego. You do our city proud!

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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:31 PM

    About what I figured. Red Dead deserves the praise it got. Fantastic game. I wish God of War 3 would've won something, but that's ok. It's a fantastic game, but I can see why Read Dead was picked over it in some of those categories.

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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:37 PM
    hate the wii just saying oh and mass effect 2 was the game of the year not even close played them both got 100% on red dead so cant say i didnt play it. plus th multi is a bad gow shooter. auto aim in multi how retarded was that
  • by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:39 PM
    Kinda wish they would port Red Dead Redemption to PC so I can see its coolness :b
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    Congratulations to Rockstar San Diego they deserved it. Red Dead was one of the most fun games I've ever played. Everything about it was great, the only thing I thought was overkill was the undead edition but thats fine I played that to and it was still amazingly fun.

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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:46 PM
    BC2 should have won audio
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:48 PM
    Best Game Design
    -Mass Effect 2


    Innovation
    -Minecraft


    Best Technology
    -Heavy Rain


    Best Handheld Game
    -Metal Gear Solid: Piece Walker


    Best Audio
    -Red Dead Redemption


    Best Downloadable Game
    Minecraft


    Best Writing
    -Mass Effect 2


    Best Debut Game
    -Minecraft


    Best Visual Arts
    -Limbo


    Game of the Year
    -Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 10:56 PM
    No surprises other than handheld : /
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:04 PM
    Really? Red Dead Redemption? I know everyone likes jumping on the Rockstar bandwagon but REALLY?

    Red Dead Redemption wins in best technology? What the pop in textures, grass, and objects is good technology? Sorry, I felt the game was garbage.

    Mass Effect 2 or God of War 3 both had much better technology behind it.

    As for the audio portion of the awards - where was Amnesia: The Dark Descent? These types of games don't deserve to be recognized, but a gimmicky game like Limbo does?
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:09 PM
    ok bad company 2 definetly deserved to win best audio
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    i personally thought RED DEAD REDEMPTION

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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:17 PM

    Woo Red Dead Redemption cleaning up. Tons of good games on that list though, many others were very deserving. Red Dead is incredible though and deserves every award it wins.

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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:22 PM
    Minecraft and Red Dead FTW!!!
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:24 PM
    Looks like Red Dead made out like a bandit. (pun intended)
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:25 PM
    Ummm, am is it odd for Costume Quest to be nominated for best writing?
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:28 PM
    I don't know how Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker or God of War: Ghost of Sparta didn't win best handheld game. That's bullsh*t!
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:30 PM

    Everything is satisfactory to me.  I probably would have wanted Markus Persson to get an award or honorable mention, because, yes he's that great.  But other than that, very agreeable.  I'm curious as to whether there will be a GOTY eddition of RDR coming from all of this.

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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:42 PM
    limbo should not have gotten best visuals. other than that the other awards are perfect
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    by Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    Yes red dead totally deserved all of those it is smack down my fav game ever!

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    by Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 12:06 AM

    Read Dead Redemption was a great game. However, Mass Effect should have gotten more awards in my opinion. Personally I thought they were both at the same level in quality and story.

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