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Finalists & Winners

Honoring the Best Games of 2008

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Hideo Kojima

Pioneer Award

Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy

Ambassador Award

Tommy Tallarico

Game of the Year

Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
- Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, Istvan Pelyl

Fable II (Lionhead Studios)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)

Innovation Award

LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Alex Evans, Kareem Ettouney

SPORE (Maxis)
World Of Goo (2D Boy)
Boom Blox (EA Los Angeles)
Braid (Number None)

Audio

Dead Space (EA Redwood Shores/Electronic Arts)
- Don Veca, Dave Feise, David Swenson, Andrew Lackey

LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)

Game Design

LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Mark Healey, David Smith

Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
Braid (Number None)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)

Technology

LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Alex Evans, David Smith

SPORE (Maxis)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)

Visual Arts

Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal/ Ubisoft)
- Mickael Labat

Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)

Writing

Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
- Emil Pagliarulo

Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
Braid (Number None)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)

Best Downloadable Game

World Of Goo (2D Boy)
- Kyle Gabler, Ron Carmel

Castle Crashers (The Behemoth)
Braid (Number None)
N+ (Metanet/Slick Entertainment)
PixelJunk Eden (Q-Games)

Best Handheld Game

God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (Ready At Dawn Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Ru Weerasuriya, Mark Turndorf, Dana Jan

Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin (Intelligent Systems)
Echochrome (SCE Japan)
Patapon (Pyramid/SCE Japan)
The World Ends With You (Jupiter/Square Enix)

Best Debut

LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

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