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Finalists & Winners

Honoring the Best Games of 2007

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Sid Meier

Pioneer Award

Ralph Baer

Ambassador Award

Jason Della Rocca

Game of the Year

Portal (Valve)
- Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw

BioShock (2K Boston / 2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Ken Levine, Jon Chey, Alyssa Finley, Melissa Miller

Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Jason West, Grant Collier, Vince Zampella

Rock Band (Harmonix Music Systems / MTV Games)
- Alex Rigopulos, Greg LoPiccolo

Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Yoshiaki Koizumi

Innovation Award

Portal (Valve)
- Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw

Rock Band (Harmonix Music Systems / MTV Games)
- Alex Rigopulos, Greg LoPiccolo

Flow (thatgamecompany)
- thatgamecompany

Peggle (PopCap Games)
- Sukhbir Sidhu, Brian Rothstein, Eric Tams, Walter Wilson

Mass Effect (Bioware / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Casey Hudson, Preston Watamaniuk

Audio

BioShock (2K Boston / 2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Eric Brosius, Pat Balthrop, Emily Ridgway, Justin Mullins

Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Jason West, Grant Collier, Vince Zampella

Everyday Shooter (Queasy Games)
- Jonathan Mak

God of War II (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Computer Entertainment)
- David Murrant, Clint Bajakian, Chuck Doud, Phil Kovats

Mass Effect (Bioware / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Steven Sim, Michael Kent, Jack Wall, Sam Hulick

Game Design

Portal (Valve)
- Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham

BioShock (2K Boston / 2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Paul Hellquist, Bill Gardner

Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Jason West, Grant Collier, Vince Zampella

Mass Effect (Bioware / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Casey Hudson, Preston Watamaniuk

Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Yoshiaki Koizumi

Technology

Crysis (Crytek / Electronic Arts)
- Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring

Halo 3 (Bungie Studios / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Chris Butcher, Hao Chen, Andrew Soloman, Ben Wallace

Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Jason West, Grant Collier, Vince Zampella

Portal (Valve)
- Garrett Rickey, Jeep Barnett, David Kircher

Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
- Claude Langlais, Dominique Couture, Dominique Duvivier, Richard Dumas

Visual Arts

BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James

Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
- Raphael Lacoste, Nicolas Cantin, Thomas Giroux, and Team

Team Fortress 2 (Valve)
- Charles Brown, Jason Mitchell, Moby Franke, Ariel Diaz

Crysis (Crytek DE / EA Games)
- Michael Endres, Tiago Sousa, Christopher Evans, Hanno Hagedorn

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Naughty Dog / Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Evan Wells, Christophe Balestra

Writing

BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O'Connor

Portal (Valve)
- Erik Wolpaw

God of War II (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Cory Barlog, James Barlog, Marianne Krawczyk

Mass Effect (Bioware / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Drew Karpyshyn, Mac Walters, Patrick Weekes, Chris L'Etoile

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 (Valve)
- Chet Faliszek, Marc Laidlaw

Best Downloadable Game

Flow (thatgamecompany / Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen, Martin Middleton, Hao Cui, John Edwards, Nick Clark

Pac-Man Championship Edition (Namco-Bandai Games)
- Nobutaka Nakajima

Everyday Shooter (Queasy Games / Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Jonathan Mak

Peggle (PopCap Games)
- Sukhbir Sidhu, Brian Rothstein, Eric Tams, Walter Wilson

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive / D3 Publisher)
- Steve Fawkner, Janeen Fawkner

Best Handheld Game

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo / Nintendo)
- Eiji Aonuma

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive / D3 Publisher)
- Steve Fawkner, Janeen Fawkner

Contra 4 (WayForward / Konami)
- Chris Watson, Matt Bozon, Robert Koshak, Sean Velasco

Phase (Harmonix Music Systems / MTV Games)
- Kasson Crooker

Peggle (for iPod) (PopCap Games)
- Sukhbir Sidhu, Brian Rothstein, Matthew Lee Johnston, Dan Banay