The Game Developers Choice Awards are the premier accolades for peer-recognition in the digital games industry, celebrating creativity, artistry and technological genius. Industry professionals from around the world nominate for the awards, free of charge, ensuring that the recipients reflect the community’s opinions.
Awards in thirteen categories will be given at a ceremony produced by the Think Services Game Developers Conference (GDC) and presented by Gamasutra.com and Game Developer Magazine, on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at GDC. The gala event, held in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival, will be hosted in the Esplanade Room in the South Hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center. For further details about the Choice Awards, visit www.gamechoiceawards.com.
Its about the shift from teamwork to individuals’ goals and the third-person camera.
Battlefield Heroes: Better than Team Fortress 2?
Work continues on Battlefield Heroes despite the recent closure of the game’s beta, and producer Aleksander Grondal recently talked it up with Gamasutra. Grondal isn’t a Battlefield developer veteran, instead having previously worked on Anarchy Online and Dreamfall at Funcom. As such, he brings a different mentality to the team working on Heroes, which he claims is a mixture of half newcomers to the series and half previous Battlefield developers.
Gamasutra’s comprehensive new U.S. sales analysis following October NPD results, we’ve extrapolated the top 5 selling video games of 2008 so far in the region, from Smash Bros through GTA IV.
YLD Top 5 Games of 2008
- Wii
- Mario Cart
- Grand Theft Auto 4
- Wii Play
- Wii Fit
