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先日、“This War of Mine”や“80 DAYS”がSeumas McNally Grand Prizeにノミネートされた“IGF 2015”の部門別ファイナリストをご紹介しましたが、新たにIGFと併催される第15回“Game Developers Choice Awards”の部門別ノミネート作品のラインアップが本日アナウンスされ、“Bayonetta 2”と“Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor”、“Destiny”、“Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft”、“Alien: Isolation”の5作品がGOTY候補に選ばれたことが明らかになりました。

今年は、革新的なネメシスシステムで大きな注目を集めた“Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor”がGOTY入りを含む5部門に選出され最多ノミネートとなったほか、The Astronautsの忘れがたい初タイトル“The Vanishing of Ethan Carter”がナラティブやオーディオを含む4部門ノミネートを果たす結果となっています。

選外佳作を含む第15回“GDC Awards”の部門別ノミネート作品のラインアップは以下からご確認下さい。

Game of the Year

• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

選外佳作: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)

Innovation Award

• Bounden (Game Oven)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
• Monument Valley (Ustwo)

選外佳作: Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games), Extrasolar (Lazy 8 Studios), Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments), Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games), 80 Days (Inkle Studios)

Best Debut

• Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
• Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
• The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
• Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
• Upper One Games (Never Alone)

選外佳作: Dynamighty (CounterSpy), Hinterland Games (The Long Dark), 1337 & Senri (Leo’s Fortune), MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)

Best Design

• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)

選外佳作: Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Destiny (Bungie/Activision), Monument Valley (Ustwo), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Threes! (Sirvo)
• Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)
• Hearthstone (Blizzard)
• 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
• Monument Valley (Ustwo)

選外佳作: Bounden (Game Oven), Bravely Default (Silicon Studio and Square Enix/Nintendo and Square Enix), Desert Golfing (Blinkbat Games), Velocity 2X (FuturLab), Fantasy Life (Level-5/Nintendo)

Best Visual Art

• Monument Valley (Ustwo)
• Hohokum (Honeyslug and Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
• Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

選外佳作: Never Alone (Upper One Games/E-Line Media), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), Transistor (Supergiant Games), Broken Age: Act 1 (Double Fine Productions), Destiny (Bungie/Activision)

Best Narrative

• 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

選外佳作: Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 (Gearbox Software/Telltale Games), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Hatoful Boyfriend (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Best Audio

• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
• Hohokum (Honeyslug/Sony)
• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Transistor (Supergiant Games)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

選外佳作: Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo), Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games)

Best Technology

• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order (MachineGames/Bethesda)
• Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
• Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

選外佳作: Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), The Last of Us: Remastered (Naughty Dog/Sony), Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony)