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Finalists & Winners

Honoring the Best Games of 2005

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Richard Garriott

First Penguin Award

Will Crowther, Don Woods

Maverick Award

Mike Dornbrook, Eran Egozy, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulo

Community Contribution Award

Chris Hecker

Audio

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Eric Brosius, Kasson Crooker

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

Character Design

Shadow of the Colossus(Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Atsuko Fukuyama, Hitoshi Niwa, Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito Ueda

City of Villains (Cryptic Studios / NCsoft Corporation)
- Ocala Bellows Kulig, Ryan Butts, Jay Doherty, Jeremy Mattson

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- David Jaffe, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Oddworld Inhabitants / Electronic Arts
- Lorne Lanning, Rich McKain, Iain Morton, Raymond Swanland

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
- Scott Campbell

Game Design

Shadow of the Colossus(Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda

Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, Takashi Tezuka, Kazumi Totaka

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- David Jaffe

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
- Erik Robson, Tim Schafer

Technology

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige

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

Visual Arts

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita, Hironobu Nakano, Fumito Ueda

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- Steve Caterson, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Gren Atherton, Julie McGurren, Peter Roe, Kiki Wolfkill

Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4 / Capcom Entertainment)
- Yusuke Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, Yusuke Kan, Masaki Yamanaka

We Love Katamari (Namco Limited / Namco Hometek)
- Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Ugajin

Writing

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
- Tim Schafer, Erik Wolpaw

Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich (Irrational Games / Vivendi Universal Games)
- Ken Levine

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- David Jaffe, Marianne Krawcyzk, Alex Stein

Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream / Atari)
- David Cage

Jade Empire (BioWare Corp. / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Drew Karpyshyn, Brian Kindregan, Luke Kristjanson, Mike Laidlaw, Peter Thomas, Mac Walters

Best Game

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda

Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, Takashi Tezuka, Kazumi Totaka

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
- David Jaffe, Shannon Studstill

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Rob Kay, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulos

The Movies (Lionhead Studios / Activision)
- Gary Carr, Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley

New Studio

Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts)
- Caroline Esmurdoc, Tim Schafer

ArenaNet (Guild Wars)
- Mike O'Brien, Jeff Strain, Patrick Wyatt

New Crayon Games (Bonnie's Bookstore)
- Phil Steinmeyer

TellTale Games (Bone: Out From Boneville)
- David Bogan, Kevin Bruner, Dan Connors, Troy Molander

Wideload Games (Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse)
- Alexander Seropian

Innovation

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Greg LoPiccolo, Ryan Lesser
Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda