The Best Debut Game Award recognizes the best game from any development studio which released its first publicly available title in the year 2009.

9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

Recipient

• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

Nominees

• Braid (Number None)
• Sins of a Solar Empire (Ironclad Games)
• World of Goo (2D Boy)
• Soul Bubbles (Mekensleep)