Lifetime Achievement Award
Sid Meier
Pioneer Award
Ralph Baer
Ambassador Award
Jason Della Rocca
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