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