Last night, the 6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards took place at at the 2006 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose. and today we bring you the list of winners. The clear winner last night was Sony Computer Entertainment's "Shadow of the Colossus" was the recipient of five top honors including Best Game.

"Game creators have earned the recognition we give other celebrities such as movie stars and pop singers, and they've provided an undeniable contribution to world culture in light of the hours of entertainment they deliver," said Jamil Moledina, director, Game Developers Conference. "Games really are a 21st century art form, and our goal in hosting and producing the Game Developers Choice Awards is to validate the achievements of these creative artists."


The recipients for the 6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards are:

Best Game

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda


Audio

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Eric Brosius, Kasson Crooker


Character Design

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Atsuko Fukuyama, Hitoshi Niwa, Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito Ueda

Game Design

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda

Technology

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige


Visual Arts

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita, Hironobu Nakano, Fumito Ueda


Writing

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
- Tim Schafer, Erik Wolpaw


New Studio

Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts)
- Caroline Esmurdoc, Tim Schafer


Innovation

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Greg LoPiccolo, Ryan Lesser

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda


Recipients for the evening's special awards were:

Lifetime Achievement

Richard Garriott

First Penguin

Will Crowther, Don Woods

Maverick

Mike Dornbrook, Eran Egozy, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulos


Community Contribution

Chris Hecker


Nominations were free of charge and open to all IGDA members, ensuring that the nominees reflect the international development community's opinions. The IGDA membership voted on the finalists.

Source: Team XBox

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well those definately weren't the best titles.

i mean, the same 4 games won all the awards

I don't like any of those games

I'm assuming that 360 games weren't included.
In that case, I pretty much agree with all of those, except possibly best game.

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Shadow of the Colossus...for 360 :P

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Oh, don't even say that! I'll die from excitement!

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well i mean there were games like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory in 2005 and that didn't win anything

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I can't even remember what else was out around then.

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yeah i was planning on posting more than Chaos Theory

but i couldn't think of any other good ones :lol: (even though i know there were a lot)

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