La Terra di Mezzo: l'Ombra di Mordor guida le nomination ai Game Developers Choice Awards

Sono state annunciate le nomination ai 15esimi Game Developers Choice Awards, i premi assegnati dagli sviluppatori ai migliori videogiochi dell'anno, e che verranno assegnati a marzo durante la GDC 2015.

A guidare le nomination La Terra di Mezzo: l'Ombra di Mordor. Il successo di Monolith Productions è infatti presente in cinque categorie, inclusa quella di Game of the Year.

Altri titoli con un buon numero di nomination sono Alien: Isolation, Destiny, Bayonetta 2. Trovate la lista qui sotto:

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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)

Menzioni d'onore: 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)