Lifetime Achievement Award
Peter Molyneux
Pioneer Award
Yu Suzuki
Ambassador Award
Tim Brengle and Ian MacKenzie
Game of the Year
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
- Rockstar San Diego Team
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Limbo (Playdead)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)
Best Writing
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
- BioWare Mass Effect Team
Red Dead Redemption(Rockstar San Diego)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Costume Quest (Double Fine)
Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian)
Best Game Design
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
- Rockstar San Diego Team
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Limbo (Playdead)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Best Technology
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
- Rockstar San Diego Team
Starcraft II (Blizzard)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Best Visual Arts
Limbo (Playdead)
- Arnt Jensen, Morten Bramsen
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Best Debut Game
Minecraft (Mojang)
- Markus Persson
Limbo (Playdead)
Darksiders (Vigil Games)
Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)
Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)
Innovation Award
Minecraft (Mojang)
- Markus Persson
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory)
Limbo (Playdead)
Dance Central (Harmonix)
Best Handheld Game
Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab)
- Semyon Voinov, Efim Voinov
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Ready At Dawn/SCE Santa Monica)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Kojima Productions)
Game Dev Story (Kairosoft)
Dragon Quest IX (Level 5)
Best Audio
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
- Rockstar San Diego Team
Limbo (Playdead)
Halo: Reach (Bungie)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DICE)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Best Downloadable Game
Minecraft (Mojang)
- Markus Persson
Costume Quest (Double Fine)
Limbo (Playdead)
Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)
Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)
Best New Social/Online Game
Since last year's ceremony, the Game Developers Choice Awards added a sister Game Developers Conference Online Awards ceremony focused around the rise of online games, paired with Austin's GDC Online conference last October. Highlights from the show, which crowned Riot Games' League of Legends as Best New Online Game and CCP's EVE Online as Best Live Game, will be shown during the main Choice Awards ceremony.