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Organisers of the ninth annual Game Developers Choice Awards have announced this year’s finalists, with Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet leading the nominees with seven nominations, including Best Game Design and Game of the Year.
Double Fine Productions founder and career funnyman Tim Schafer will again be required to Google search “how to tie a bow tie” this March, as he returns to host the 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards.
It may not have the gloss—nor the honor of lauding the Most Addictive Game Fueled By Dew—of some other video game award presentations, but the Game Developers Choice Awards are the real deal in their space. To take place during the Game Developers Conference, the Game Developers Choice Awards are the “industry’s only open peer-based awards” meaning that the back-scratching here is genuine and informed. Leading the nominations this year are Valve’s Portal and 2K Boston’s BioShock, each nabbing five nominations, including Game of the Year nods.
Games that also may not have received much attention elsewhere, say Contra 4, Peggle and Aquaria, also received nominations.
The most entertaining part? Skits and video presentations from both Zero Punctuation and Mega64 will be shown during the awards. I’m bringing spare arse cheeks in the event that I LMFAO. The full list of nominees follows.
Sid Meier, father of Civilization and all things turn-based, will be honored at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Last year’s winner was Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto.
“Sid Meier has served as one of our industry’s greatest role models for more than 25 years, creating fun and intelligent games for a diverse public long before it was popular,” said Jamil Moledina, executive director of the Game Developers Conference. “Now that the rest of the industry is actively targeting the broader audience, it’s fitting to honor him with our highest award and thank him for his continuing example of inspiration for the video game community.”
Meier, who by some accounts is considered the father of PC gaming, started his career as one of the founding partners of MicroProse Softweare and went on to spawn such great games as F-19, Railroad Tycoon, Pirates! and, of course, Civilization. He can also be crediting with nearly torpedoing my college career, but I won’t go into that now… friggin Civ.
