Game Developers Choice Awards Nominees Selected
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This year’s Game Developers Choice Awards nominees have been selected. Check them out below:

Best Game
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
  • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
  • Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
  • The Movies (Lionhead Studios / Activision)

    Audio

  • Call of Duty 2 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
  • Electroplankton (Nintendo)
  • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
  • Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)

    Character Design

  • City of Villains (Cryptic Studios / NCsoft Corporation)
  • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (Oddworld Inhabitants / Electronic Arts)
  • Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
  • Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

    Game Design

  • Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
  • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
  • Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
  • Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

    Technology

  • Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Digital Illusions / Electronic Arts)
  • Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
  • Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
  • Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)
  • Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

    Visual Arts

  • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)
  • Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4 / Capcom Entertainment)
  • Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
  • We Love Katamari (Namco Limited / Namco Hometek)

    Writing

  • Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich (Irrational Games / Vivendi Universal Games)
  • God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream / Atari)
  • Jade Empire (BioWare Corp. / Microsoft Game Studios)
  • Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)

    New Studio

  • ArenaNet (Guild Wars)
  • Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts)
  • New Crayon Games (Bonnie’s Bookstore)
  • TellTale Games (Bone: Out From Boneville)
  • Wideload Games (Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse)

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