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Finalists & Winners

Honoring the Best Games of 2010

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Lifetime Achievement Award

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.