Written By Michael 81 days ago
News Category: Industry News
Relevant Consoles: : Nintendo DS : PlayStation 3 : PlayStation Portable : Wii : Xbox 360

It looks like Valve has a winner on its hand. The rather lovely first-person puzzler Portal (which was part of the developer's Orange Box) took home the prize as Game of the Year at this year's Game Developers Choice Awards. The game also won two other awards; Best Game Design and Innovation.

2K Boston now legendary BioShock also took away three very much deserved awards: Best Audio, Best Visual Art and Best Writing.

"The Game Developers Choice Awards stand out from other game industry prizes by being open to all games of a calendar year and by recognizing the individual developers behind each celebrated game," said Jamil Moledina, executive director of the Game Developers Conference. "We are thrilled gamers at home will be able to meet the people behind their favorite games when our first ever television broadcast special on the awards airs soon on the G4 television network."

Below are the full list of winners at this years Choice Awards:

* Best Game Design - Portal (Valve) Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham Best Visual Art - BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games) Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
* Best Technology - Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts) Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring
* Best Writing - BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games) Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O'Connor
* Best Audio - BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games) Eric Brosius, Pat Balthrop, Emily Ridgway, Justin Mullins
* Best Debut - Crackdown (Real Time Worlds / Microsoft Game Studios) Ramon Gonzalez, Violetta Sanchez, Rafael Diaz, Jose Guerra
* Innovation - Portal (Valve) Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
* Best Handheld Game - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo / Nintendo) Eiji Aonuma
* Best Downloadable Game - Flow (thatgamecompany / Sony Computer Entertainment) Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen, Martin Middleton, Hao Cui, John Edwards, Nick Clark
* Game of the Year - Portal (Valve) Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
* Lifetime Achievement Award - Sid Meier
* Pioneer Award - Ralph Baer
* Ambassador Award - Jason Della Rocca

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Comments

By: ApplesauceNinja On: 07:43 Feb 21st, 2008 Offline	Apparently, neither of these games look to stop winning awards any time soon, and rightfully so. I just finished Portal last night, and I beat Bioshock some time ago. Both titles completely changed the gaming landscape. Good for them!

By: Samuel On: 07:52 Feb 21st, 2008 Offline	Well, that's surprising. I would've thought the Bioshock hype would have slowed down by now.

By: Evren On: 08:54 Feb 21st, 2008 Offline	No!!! Because Bioshock is win. In it's most PURE form. dies