12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2012)
Recipient
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)
- Naughty Dog Team
Nominees
- Rayman Origins (Ubisoft Montpellier)
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
- El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition Japan)
- Battlefield 3 (DICE)
11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2011)
Recipient
Limbo (Playdead)
- Arnt Jensen, Morten Bramsen
Nominees
- 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)
10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2010)
Recipient
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
- Robh Ruppel, Erick Pangilinan
Nominees
- Borderlands (Gearbox Software)
- Brian Martel, Jenn Wildes, Brian Cozzens, Tim Wilson - Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Mohamed Gambouz - Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward)
- Richard Kriegler - Flower (thatgamecompany)
- Jenova Chen, Matt Nava, Hao Cui
9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2009)
Recipient
Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Mickael Labat
Nominees
- Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
- LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
- Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)
8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)
Recipient
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
Nominees
- 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
7th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2007)
Recipient
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Jerry O'Flaherty, Chris Perna
Nominees
- Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)
- Isamu Kamikokuryo, Hideo Minaba, Akihiko Yoshida - Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Naoki Katakai, Kenichirou Yoshimura - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Matthew Carofano, Christiane Meister, Istvan Pely - Viva Piñata (Rare / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Ed Bryan, Ryan Stevenson
6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2006)
Recipient
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita, Hironobu Nakano, Fumito Ueda
Nominees
- 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
5th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2005)
Recipient
World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
- Sam Didier, William Petras, Justin Thavirat
Nominees
- Doom 3 (id Software / Activision)
- Andy Chang, Seneca Menard, Kenneth Scott - Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
- Viktor Antonov, Randy Lundeen - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
- Hiroyuki Hayashi, Chie Kawabe - Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Entertainment)
- Mickael Labat, Patrick Limoges
4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2004)
Recipient
Masanao Arimoto, Yoshiki Haruhana, and Satoru Takizawa for art direction in THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER
Nominees
- Mickael Labat, Raphael Lacoste, Celine Tellier and team for art direction in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
- Akira Yamaoka for art direction in SILENT HILL 3
- Eric Kohler and team for art direction in TRON 2.0
- Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya and team for art direction in VIEWTIFUL JOE
3rd annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2003)
Recipient
Tetsuya Nomura for art direction in KINGDOM HEARTS
Nominees
- Jonathan Chey, Ken Levine and Team for art direction in FREEDOM FORCE
- Hokyo Lim, Suzanne Kaufman, Dev Madan, Augie Pagan and Karin Yamagiwa for art direction in SLY COOPER AND THE THIEVIUS RACCOONUS
- Nicolas Cantin, Frdrick Gagn and Benoit Sokal for art direction in SYBERIA
- Jay Beard, Erik Medina, Jeff Merghart , Dan Mueller and Tim Neveu for animation in THE MARK OF KRI
2nd annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2002)
Recipient
Fumito Ueda & team for art direction in ICO
Nominees
- Greg Griffith, Bill Harper, John Kim, Jordan Pitchon, Bob Rafei, Josh Scherr & Rob Titus for animation in JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
- Kazunori Yamauchi & team for modeling in GRAN TURISMO 3 A-SPEC
- Lorne Lanning & Farzad Varahramyan for art direction in ODDWORLD: MUNCH'S ODDYSEE
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Jun Kabayashi & team for art direction in REZ