Category Archives: Awards

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences will honour Gauntlet designer Ed Logg with a Pioneer award.

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Spike has announced the full list of nominees for the 2011 Video Game Awards, which take place live on December 10.

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Two members of the team behind indie darling Sword & Sworcery EP took gongs at the 2011 Canadian Game Development Talent Awards.

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Spike’s announced in a release this evening the next game from BioWare will be among several announces for the Spike Video Game Awards on December 10.

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Venerable entertainment magazine Variety will induct Nintendo of America into its Home Entertainment Hall of Fame.

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The judges of the 2011 Paris Games Week Awards chose to award a tie result in the best shooter category, honouring both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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Part of London’s South Bank was filled to the tipping point with a ton of games journos and PRs. It was the annual Games Media Awards, which was hosted by Inbetweeners headmaster, Greg Davies.

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BAFTA’s announced the list of games nominated within this year’s list of games categories in the Children’s BAFTAs. For best game, the choice is between Kirby’s Epic Yarn, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, LittleBigPlanet 2 and Pokemon Black & White. In the Kids Choice award, nominations are between Angry Birds Rio, Cut the Rope, FIFA 11, Just Dance 2, Kinect Sports, Michael Jackson: The Experience, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Professor Layton and the Lost Future, The Sims 3, Wii Party. Size Five Games’ Privates is also up for a nomination in the Learning – Secondary category.

The ceremony happens on November 27.

The 2011 Golden Joystick Awards were held tonight, and some of the winners include: Mortal Kombat, Fallout: New Vegas, Angry Birds, and World of Warcraft. But Portal 2 walked home with the biggest prize with an Ultimate Game of the Year award.

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Sonic the Hedgehog has been handed the first annual Outstanding Contribution award by the 2011 Golden Joystick Awards.

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BAFTA has added new categories to its game awards: Debut Game, Online – Browser, Online – Multiplayer and Performer. The Debut award will be handed to a studio releasing its first game during the same year the award is given, and the performance award will be handed to either voice or motion work. The Online browser award is self explanatory, and Online multiplayer can apply to any game which has online multiplayer capabilities. The BAFTAs take place on Friday, March 16, and nominations open on February 16. Thanks, GI.biz.

Organisers of the Writers Guild Awards have announced the nominations for the Best Videogame awards. Splash Damage’s Ed Stern for Brink, Ninja Theory’s Tameem Antoniades & film producer Alex Garland for Enslaved and ex-journo Kieron Gillen for The Curfew are all up for the award, which will be given out on November 16 at Notting Hill.

Thanks, Videogamer.

EA scored highly at this year’s Gamescom Awards, taking home four wins and nabbing the coveted Best of Gamescom trophy with Battlefield 3.

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Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood was the big winner at the German Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware awards.

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Independent companies cleaned up the Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2011, with Minecraft developer Mojang coming out the clear winner with three awards.

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It’s quiet, brother. Too quiet. Digest these insignificant morsels while I investigate whether the industry was abducted over the weekend.

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Sony has announced its sponsorship of this year’s Games Media Awards as a Gold Partner with PSVita.

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The 2011 Game Critics Awards nominations are in, with BioShock Infinite and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception each appearing in four categories.

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Charles Cecil, the creator of Broken Sword and head-man of UK studio Revolution, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Said the dev legend in a tweet: “Thrilled, flattered and humbled by all the MBE-congratulatory messages. Thanks so much!”

Many congrats, Charles.

Intent’s opened nominations for this year’s Game Media Awards, which are now confirmed to be taking place on Wednesday, October 26.

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