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11th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Congratulations to all recipients and nominees! The award recipients were announced at a ceremony during the 2011 Game Developers Conference.

 

Nominees & Awards Recipients

Each award recipient is highlighted in yellow.

 

These three special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, were presented at the ceremony.

 

Lifetime Achievement

• Peter Molyneux

 

Pioneer Award

• Yu Suzuki

 

Ambassador Award

• Tim Brengle and Ian MacKenzie

 

	Game of the Year Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego) - Rockstar San Diego Team Mass Effect 2(BioWare) Call of Duty: Black Ops(Treyarch) Limbo (Playdead) Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)

 

	Best Writing Mass Effect 2 (BioWare) - BioWare Mass Effect Team Red Dead Redemption(Rockstar San Diego) Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream) Costume Quest (Double Fine) Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian)

 

	Best Game Design Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego) - Rockstar San Diego Team Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo) Mass Effect 2 (BioWare) Limbo (Playdead) God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)

 

	Best Technology Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego) - Rockstar San Diego Team Starcraft II (Blizzard) Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream) Mass Effect 2 (BioWare) God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)

 

	Best Visual Arts Limbo (Playdead) - Arnt Jensen, Morten Bramsen God of War III (SCE Santa Monica) Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch) Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal) Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)

 

	Best Debut Game Minecraft (Mojang) - Markus Persson Limbo (Playdead) Darksiders (Vigil Games) Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment) Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)

 

	Innovation Award Minecraft (Mojang) - Markus Persson Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream) Kirby's Epic Yarn (Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory) Limbo (Playdead) Dance Central (Harmonix)

 

	Best Handheld Game Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab) - Semyon Voinov, Efim Voinov God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Ready At Dawn/SCE Santa Monica) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Kojima Productions) Game Dev Story (Kairosoft) Dragon Quest IX (Level 5)

 

	Best Audio Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego) - Rockstar San Diego Team Limbo (Playdead) Halo: Reach (Bungie) Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DICE) Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

 

	Best Downloadable Game Minecraft (Mojang) - Markus Persson Costume Quest (Double Fine) Limbo (Playdead) Super Meat Boy (Team Meat) Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)

 

Best New Social/Online Game

Since last year's ceremony, the Game Developers Choice Awards added a sister Game Developers Conference Online Awards ceremony focused around the rise of online games, paired with Austin's GDC Online conference last October. Highlights from the show, which crowned Riot Games' League of Legends as Best New Online Game and CCP's EVE Online as Best Live Game, will be shown during the main Choice Awards ceremony.

Pictures are available in the Photos page.