Best Technology Archive

The Best Technology Award recognizes the overall excellence of technology in a game - including, but not limited to, graphics programming, artificial intelligence, networking, physics, etc.

 

 

12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2012)

	Recipient Battlefield 3 (DICE) - DICE Team Nominees L.A. Noire (Team Bondi) Crysis 2 (Crytek Frankfurt/UK) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)

 

 

11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2011)

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

 

 

10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2010)

Recipient Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog) - Christophe Balestra, Pal Engstad, Travis McIntosh Nominees Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward) - Richard Baker, Frank Gigliotti Red Faction: Guerrilla (Volition) - Rick White, Jasen Whiteside, James Hague, Dave Baranec Killzone 2 (Guerrilla Games) - Hermen Hulst, Arjan Brussee, Michiel van der Leeuw, Jan-Bart van Beek Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal) - James Therrien

 

 

9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2009)

	Recipient LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule) - Alex Evans, David Smith Nominees SPORE (Maxis) Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North) Left 4 Dead (Valve Software) Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)

 

 

8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

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

 

 

7th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2007)

Recipient Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios) - Michael Capps, Ray Davis, Tim Sweeney, Daniel Vogel Nominees Company of Heroes (Relic Entertainment / THQ)) - Drew Dunlop, Shelby Hubick, David Swinerd, Ian Thomson Dead Rising (Capcom Entertainment) - Shinya Ikuta, Tomofumi Ishida, Yasuhide Sawada, Tomohiro Ueda Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis (Rockstar San Diego / Rockstar Games) - Ted Carson, Eugene Foss, Wil Paredes, Steve Reed Wii Sports (Nintendo) - Takuhiro Dohta, Takeshi Miyamoto, Keizo Ohta, Kenta Sato

 

 

6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2006)

Recipient Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo) - Tsutomu Kaneshige Nominees Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Digital Illusions / Electronic Arts) - Fred Gill, Mns Vestin Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane) - Eran Egozy, Eric Malafeew, Phil Winston Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios) - Edmund Clay, Roger Perkins, Phil Teschner, Ian Wilson Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) - Jinji Horagai, Takuya Seki, Hajime Sugiyama, Masanobu Tanaka

 

 

5th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2005)

Recipient Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games) - Yahn Bernier, Brian Jacobson Nominees Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion Games / Electronic Arts) - Alex Fry, Ciaran Rooney, Paul Ross, Hamish Young Doom 3 (id Software / Activision) - John Carmack, Robert Duffy, Jan Paul van Waveren EyeToy: AntiGrav (Harmonix Music Systems / Sony Computer Entertainment America) - Eran Egozy, Eric Malafeew Far Cry (Crytek / Ubisoft Entertainment) - Timur Davidenko, Vladimir Kajalin, Andrey Khonich, Anton Knyazyev, Cevat Yerli

 

 

4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2004)

	Recipient Dominic Couture, Feng Quan Wang and team for graphics programming in PRINCE OF PERSIA : THE SANDS OF TIME Nominees Jak II team for programming in JAK II Kim Salo, Markus Stein and Olli Tervo for physics programming in MAX PAYNE 2: THE FALL OF MAX PAYNE David Worswick for network programming in PROJECT GOTHAM RACING 2 Mike Rayner, Jon Spencer and team for programming in SSX 3

 

 

3rd annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2003)

Recipient Mark Brockington, Scott Greig, Jason Knipe, Don Moar and Don Yakielashek for network programming in NEVERWINTER NIGHTSME Nominees Mike Biddlecombe, Scott Bilas, Bartosz Kijanka, James Loe, Eric Tams and Chad Queen for programming in DUNGEON SIEGE Metroid Team for programming in METROID PRIME Antoine Dodens and Team for graphics programming in TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL Warcraft III Team for programming in WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS

 

 

2nd annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2002)

Recipient Richard Evans for artificial intelligence in BLACK & WHITE Nominees Akihiko Tan & team for physics in GRAN TURISMO 3 A-SPEC Andy Gavin & Stephen White for programming in JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY Jason Jones & team for programming in HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED Sherman Archibald, John Carmack & Ryan Feltrin for graphics in RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN

 

 

1st annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2001)

	Recipient Sims programming team for AI in THE SIMS Nominees Yu Suzuki & team for physics in F355 CHALLENGE Scott Guest & Andy Astor for graphics in GIANTS: CITIZEN KABUTO Visual Concepts dev team for networking in NFL2K1 Martin Brownlow for graphics in SACRIFICE