Congratulations to all recipients and nominees! The recipients were announced at a ceremony during the 2008 Game Developers Conference.

Each award recipient is highlighted in blue.

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

 

Four special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, were also presented at the ceremony.

Lifetime Achievement

• Sid Meier

Pioneer Award

• Ralph Baer

Ambassador Award

• Jason Della Rocca
  

Pictures are available in the Photos page.

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