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本日、GDC 2015会場にて“Independent Games Festival”と第15回「Game Developers Choice Awards」の授賞式が実施され、Monolithの傑作アクション“Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor”が見事GOTYを獲得したことが明らかになりました。

なお、今年の最多受賞は3部門の“Monument Valley”（唯一の複数部門を受賞）となっているほか、The Banner Sagaを生んだ“Stoic Studio”がベストデビュー賞に選ばれ、ナラティブ賞を“Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3”が獲得するなど、インディータイトルが大きな存在感を発揮する実に印象深い結果となっています。

2014年を代表する作品が並んだ全9部門の受賞結果は以下からご確認下さい。

Game of the Year

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

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)
• [受賞] Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Best Debut

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

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)
• [受賞] Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

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

Best Visual Art

• [受賞]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)

Best Narrative

• 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• [受賞] 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)

Best Audio

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

Best Technology

• [受賞] 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)