Game of the Year Archive
The Game of the Year Award recognizes the choice of game developers for the overall best game release.
Recipient
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
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Bethesda Game Studios Team
Nominees
Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)
Portal 2 (Valve)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal)
Dark Souls (FromSoftware)
Recipient
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego Team)
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Rockstar San Diego Team
Nominees
Mass Effect 2(BioWare)
Call of Duty: Black Ops(Treyarch)
Limbo (Playdead)
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
Recipient
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
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Evan Wells, Christophe Balestra, Amy Hennig, Bruce Straley
Nominees
Dragon Age: Origins (BioWare)
- Mark Darrah, Mike Laidlaw, Ross Gardner, Matt Goldman
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
- Sefton Hill, Jamie Walker
Demon's Souls (From Software)
- Takeshi Kajii, Hidetaka Miyazaki
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Sebastien Puel, Patrice Desilets
Recipient
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
- Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, Istvan Pelyl
Nominees
Fable II (Lionhead Studios)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
Recipient
Portal (Valve)
- Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
Nominees
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
Recipient
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Rod Fergusson
Nominees
Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Todd Howard
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita
Recipient
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda
Nominees
Call of Duty 2 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Mark Ganus
Electroplankton (Nintendo)
- Toshio Iwai, Koichi Kyuma, Yuichi Ozaki
God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- Brad Aldredge, Clint Bajakian, Chuck Doud, Dave Murrant
Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Nick Bygrave, Guy Whitmore, Nick Wiswell
Recipient
Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
- Ken Birdwell, Gabe Newell, Jay Stelly
Nominees
Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion Games / Electronic Arts)
- Paul Glancey, Chris Roberts, Paul Cross, Fiona Sperry, Alex Ward
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games)
- Leslie Benzies, Adam Fowler, Aaron Garbut, Sam Houser, Alexander Roger, Obbe Vermeij
Katamari Damacy (Namco)
- Keita Takahashi
World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
- Mark Kern, Mike Morhaime, Rob Pardo
Recipient
STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC (BioWare Corp.)
Nominees
BEYOND GOOD & EVIL (Ubisoft Pictures)
CALL OF DUTY (Infinity Ward)
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (Ubisoft Montreal)
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER (Nintendo EAD)
Recipient
METROID PRIME (Retro Studios)
Nominees
BATTLEFIELD 1942 (Digital Illusions)
GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY (Rockstar North)
NEVERWINTER NIGHTS (BioWare Corp.)
TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL (Ubi Soft Montreal)
Recipient
GRAND THEFT AUTO III (DMA Design/Rockstar Games)
Nominees
BLACK & WHITE (Lionhead Studios)
HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED (Bungie Studios)
ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
MAX PAYNE (Remedy Entertainment)
Recipient
THE SIMS (Maxis)
Nominees
DEUS EX (ION Storm Austin)
JET GRIND RADIO (Smilebit)
NO ONE LIVES FOREVER (Monolith)
SHENMUE (Sega AM2)