Announcement: Death Stranding Tops Among Other Nominees In Various Awards For GDC Choice Awards

Announcement: Death Stranding Tops Among Other Nominees In Various Awards For GDC Choice Awards
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Death Stranding, Untitled Goose Game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Outer Wilds, and control are the nominees for Game of the year at the 20th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Which is coming up in March at Game Developers Conference 2020.

These groups of games each earned nominations in several categories, with Death Stranding greeting a vote in seven, the most of any game. Death Stranding is set up for Best Audio, Best Narrative Game (I think this one is a no-brainer) Best Design, Best Visual Art and the GDC’s Innovation, Best Technology, with a whooping Game of the Year.

The International Choice Awards Network chooses the nominees, the winners to be selected by ICAN, would be revealed on Wednesday, March 18 in a festival hosted by Kim Swift, now a design director for Electronic Arts and also famous for her work on Valve’s Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Portal.

Below is the full list of game nominees and honorable mentions:

Best Debut
• Foam Sword Games—Knights and Bikes
• Mobius Digital—Outer Wilds
• William Chyr Studios—Manifold Garden
• Chance Agency—Neo Club
• ZA/UM—for Disco Elysium.

Best Audio
Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/ Sony Interactive Entertainment
Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare—Infinity Ward/Activision
Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
Sayonara Wild Hearts—Simogo/Annapurna Interactive

For the ‘honorable mentions’: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Cadence of Hyrule—Brace Yourself Games/Nintendo, Ape Out—Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch/Devolver Digital, Disco Elysium—ZA/UM, and Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive.

Best Design
Baba Is You—Hempuli
Death Stranding—Kojima Production/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—From Software/Activision Publishing, FromSoftware
Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

Best Debut
• Mobius Digital—Outer Wilds
• William Chyr Studios—Manifold Garden
• Chance Agency—Neo Cab
• Foam Sword Games—Knights and Bikes
• ZA/UM—Disco Elysium

For the ‘honorable mentions’: Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games, Disco Elysium—ZA/UM, The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division, Apex Legends—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, and Luigi’s Mansion 3—Next Level Games/Nintendo.

Innovation Award
Baba Is You—Hempuli Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Disco Elysium—ZA/UM
Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

For the ‘honorable mention’ : Hypnospace Outlaw—Tendershoot and ThatWhichIs Media/No More Robots, Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games, Ring Fit Adventure—Nintendo EPD/Nintendo, Kind Words—Popcannibal, and Wattam—Funomena/Annapurna Interactive

Honorable Mention: For Best Mobile Game
What the Golf?—Triband Productions/The Label Limited
Sky: Children of the Light—thatgamecompany
Sayonara Wild Hearts—Simogo/Annapurna Interactive
Call of Duty: Mobile—TiMi Studios/Activision
Grindstone—Capybara Games

For the ‘honorable mention’ : Assemble with Care—ustwo, Pilgrims—Amanita Design, Mutazione—Die Gute Fabrik/Akupara Games, Card of Darkness—Choice Provisions, Mini Motorways—Dinosaur Polo Club, and Archero—Habby.

Honorable Mention: For Best Narrative
The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division
Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Disco Elysium—ZA/UM
Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

For the ‘honorable mentions’: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Fire Emblem: Three Houses—Intelligent Systems, Telling Lies—Drowning a Mermaid Productions, Koei Tecmo Games/Nintendo, Heaven’s Vault—Vinkle, Mutazione—Die Gute Fabrik/Akupara Games, Furious Bee/Annapurna Interactive, and A Plague Tale: Innocence—Asobo Studio/Focus Home Interactive.

Best Technology
Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare—Infinity Ward/Activision
Apex Legends—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Noita—Nolla Games

For the ‘honorable mentions’: Resident Evil 2—Capcom, Manifold Garden—William Chyr Studios, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—From Software/Activision, The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive, and Gears 5—The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios

Best VR/AR Game
Blood & Truth—SCEE Studio London/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Vader Immortal—ILMxLAB/Disney
Asgard’s Wrath—Sanzaru Games/Oculus Studios
Pistol Whip—Cloudhead Games
Boneworks—Stress Level Zero

For the ‘honorable mention’ : Trover Saves the Universe—Squanch Games, Stormland—Insomniac Games/Oculus Studios Falcon Age—Outerloop Games, Ghost Giant—Zoink, and Vacation Simulator—Owlchemy Labs

Best Visual Art
Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysiuma—ZA/UM
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—FromSoftware/Activision
Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sayonara Wild Hearts—Simogo/Annapurna Interactive

For the ‘honorable mentions’ : Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive, Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic, Luigi’s Mansion 3—Next Level Games/Nintendo, Void Bastards—Blue Manchu/Humble Bundle, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening—Grezzo/Nintendo

And finally, Games of the Year
Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—FromSoftware/Activision
Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive.

For Honorable mentions: The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Disco Elysium—ZA/UM, and Apex Legends—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts.

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