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23rd Game Developers Choice Awards
The ''23rd Game Developers Choice Awards'' was an annual ceremony by Game Developers Choice Awards for outstanding video game developer, game developers and video games which was held on March 22, 2023. The awards ceremony was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards. Winners and Nominees Nominees were announced on January 26, 2023. Winners (noted in bold below) were named on March 22, 2023, in a ceremony hosted by Leslee Sullivant at the Moscone Center. Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year, Game of the Year * ''Elden Ring'' (FromSoftware, FromSoftware Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment) ** ''God of War Ragnarök'' (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment) ** ''Immortality (video game), Immortality'' (Sam Barlow (game designer), Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid) ** ''Pentiment (video game), Pentiment'' (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios) ** ''Stray (video game), Stray'' (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive) ** ''Tunic (video game), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscone Center
The George R. Moscone Convention Center (), popularly known as the Moscone Center, is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California, United States. The complex consists of three main halls spread out across three blocks and in the South of Market, San Francisco, South of Market neighborhood. The convention center originally opened in 1981. It is named after former San Francisco mayor George Moscone, who was Moscone–Milk assassinations, assassinated in November 1978. History The South of Market Area where Moscone Center was built was claimed by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, and a protracted battle was fought by the displaced low-income residents during the 1960s and 1970s. Although the center is named after the murdered mayor, Moscone initially opposed the development of the area when he served on the SF Board of Supervisors in the 1960s because he felt it would displace elderly and poor residents of the area. As mayor, Moscone convened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VG247
Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in London. Founded in 1999 by Rupert and Nick Loman, it owns brands—primarily editorial websites—relating to video game journalism and other video game businesses. Its flagship website, ''Eurogamer'', was launched alongside the company. It began hosting the video game trade show EGX in 2008. ReedPop acquired Gamer Network in 2018 and sold it to IGN Entertainment in 2024. History Gamer Network was founded under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman. It was formed alongside the opening of its flagship website, ''Eurogamer'', which itself launched on 4 September 1999. Nick Loman left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine and "competitive BBQ". In February 2011, Eurogamer Network acquired American publishing house Hammersuit, alongside its IndustryGamers.com and Modojo.com websites. On 1 March 2013, in line with the internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Saltsman
Adam Saltsman, also known as Adam Atomic, is an American indie video game designer best known for creating the endless runner ''Canabalt''. He is a founder of Semi Secret Software and Finji video game studios. Career Flixel (2008-11) Saltsman produced an open-source game development library for Adobe Flash called Flixel. Saltsman discussed the use of Flixel as a medium for new developers, and used it to develop ''Canabalt''. The video game development tool Stencyl makes use of the Flixel framework. ''Gravity Hook'' (2008) Saltsman developed the browser game ''Gravity Hook'' in August 2008, which is a vertically scrolling video game in which the player attempts to use a futuristic grappling hook to climb out of an underground, secret base in order to reach the surface. The game was remade into ''Gravity Hook HD'' for browser and iOS in 2010. ''Canabalt'' (2009) Saltsman developed the endless runner ''Canabalt'' in 2009, where an anonymous runner moves in one direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunic (video Game)
''Tunic'' is a 2022 action-adventure game developed by Isometricorp Games and published by Finji. It is set in a ruined fantasy world, where the player controls an anthropomorphic fox on a journey to free a fox spirit trapped in a crystal. The player discovers the gameplay and setting by exploring and finding in-game pages of a manual that offers clues, drawings, and notes. The backstory is obscured; most text is given in a constructed writing system that the player is not expected to decipher. ''Tunic'' isometric perspective hides numerous pathways and secrets. Designer Andrew Shouldice developed ''Tunic'', his first major game, over seven years. He began work on it as a solo project in 2015, wanting to combine challenging gameplay with gentle visual and audio design. He was inspired by his childhood experiences playing Nintendo Entertainment System games like ''The Legend of Zelda'' (1986) and trying to understand game manuals for which he lacked context. Shouldice was join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Games, LLC (trade name: Annapurna Interactive) is an American video game publisher and developer. The company is a division of Annapurna Pictures, and was founded in 2016, and has focused on publishing innovative and emotive indie games. Notable games published by the company include ''Donut County'', ''Kentucky Route Zero'', ''Outer Wilds'', ''Sayonara Wild Hearts'', ''Wattam'', ''What Remains of Edith Finch'', ''Telling Lies (video game), Telling Lies'', ''Neon White'' and ''Stray (video game), Stray''. History The company was founded as a division of Annapurna Pictures on December 1, 2016, as Annapurna's attempt to expand into the video game industry. The company's early staff was composed of existing Annapurna executives, producer Neale Hemrajani and Technology Head James Masi along with several video game veterans, including Nathan Gary, Deborah Mars, Hector Sanchez, and Jeff Legaspi, who had worked in Sony Interactive Entertainment's Santa Monica Studio and Warner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BlueTwelve Studio
''Stray'' is a 2022 adventure game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive. The story follows a stray cat who falls into a walled city populated by robots, machines, and mutant bacteria; the cat sets out to return to the surface with the help of a Unmanned aerial vehicle, drone companion, B-12. The game is presented through a Third-person view, third-person perspective. The player traverses the game world by leaping across platforms and climbing up obstacles, and can interact with the environment to open new paths. Using B-12, they can store items found throughout the world and hack technology to solve puzzles. Throughout the game, the player must evade the antagonistic Zurks and Sentinels, which attempt to kill them. Development began in 2015, led by BlueTwelve Studio founders Koola and Viv, who wanted to pursue an independent project after working at Ubisoft Montpellier; they partnered with Annapurna Interactive to publish the game. ''Stray'' aest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xbox Game Studios
Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher based in Redmond, Washington. It was established in March 2000, spun out from an internal Games Group, for the development and publishing of video games for Microsoft Windows. It has since expanded to include games and other interactive entertainment for the namesake Xbox platforms, other desktop operating systems, Windows Mobile and other mobile platforms, web-based portals, and other game consoles. Xbox Game Studios, alongside ZeniMax Media and Activision Blizzard, are part of the Microsoft Gaming division led by Phil Spencer (business executive), Phil Spencer, who is chief executive officer of the division. History As Microsoft Games and Microsoft Game Studios (2000–2011) In the early 1990s, Microsoft published a few video games. It published subLOGIC's ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' and several Microsoft Entertainment Pack compil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Irvine, California and part of Xbox Game Studios. It was founded in June 2003, shortly before the closure of Black Isle Studios, by ex-Black Isle employees Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, and Chris Jones. Although they have created original intellectual property, many of their games are sequels based on Brand licensing, licensed properties. Early projects included ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords'' and ''Neverwinter Nights 2'', both sequels to BioWare-developed games. The team then developed their first original game, ''Alpha Protocol'', in 2010. Other notable works from Obsidian include ''Fallout: New Vegas'', ''Dungeon Siege III'', and ''South Park: The Stick of Truth'', all of which are also licensed properties. Throughout the studio's history, many projects—including ''Futureblight'', ''Dwarfs'', ''Aliens: Crucible'', and ''Stormlands''—w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentiment (video Game)
''Pentiment'' is a 2022 adventure role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios. The game was released for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 15, 2022. The Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 versions were released on February 22, 2024. It received positive reviews from critics and won a Peabody Award in 2023. Gameplay ''Pentiment'' is a narrative adventure role-playing video game played from a 2D perspective. The player takes control of Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist from Nuremberg who becomes embroiled in a series of murder mysteries in Upper Bavaria. The story is set in the fictional Alpine town of Tassing and the nearby Benedictine Kiersau Abbey during the 16th century, and takes place over the course of 25 years. The player is tasked with investigating the murders of prominent individuals for which other townsfolk have been accused for various reasons. After collecting physical proof and gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Barlow (game Designer)
Sam Barlow is a British video game designer, best known as the writer and designer of '' Her Story'', the two British ''Silent Hill'' games '' Silent Hill: Origins'' and '' Silent Hill: Shattered Memories'', '' Telling Lies'' and ''Immortality''. He previously worked as a game director at Climax Studios, before leaving in 2014 to become an indie game developer. He published his first independent game, '' Her Story'', in June 2015, his first venture in a genre he has called the "desktop thriller." In 2017 he founded Half Mermaid, a video game production company based in Brooklyn, New York. Interactive fiction Barlow was active in the interactive fiction scene of the late 1990s, most notably releasing the game ''Aisle'' in 1999. It won the XYZZY Award for Best Use of Medium. Like his later ''Silent Hill'' games, ''Aisle'' features a psychologically damaged viewpoint character, a contemporary setting and a positive meaning at its heart. In March 2016, during the Game Developers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immortality (video Game)
''Immortality'' is a 2022 interactive film video game developed by Sam Barlow (game designer), Sam Barlow and published by Half Mermaid Productions. It was released for Windows and Xbox Series X/S in August, while Android (operating system), Android and iOS versions were released via Netflix in November 2022. A macOS version was released in April 2023. A port for PlayStation 5 was released in January 2024. Gameplay The game is based on the fictional model turned actress Marissa Marcel (Manon Gage) who had starred in three movies from 1968, 1970, and 1999 but which were never released. Marcel has since gone missing, creating a mystery for the player to solve. In the same manner as Barlow's prior works ''Her Story (video game), Her Story'' and ''Telling Lies (video game), Telling Lies'', ''Immortality'' incorporates the use of full-motion video for the player to piece together Marcel's fate. The player begins with one clip from one of the three films, and the player can pause and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is an American video game and digital entertainment company that is a major subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. It primarily operates the PlayStation brand of video game consoles and products. It is also the world's largest company in the video game industry based on its equity investments. In 1993, Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan jointly established Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) in Tokyo, which released the video game console PlayStation (console), PlayStation in Japan the following year and subsequently in the United States and Europe the year after. In 2010, Sony underwent a corporate split and established Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI) in California, which provided gaming-related services through the PlayStation Network as well as other media through Sony Entertainment Network, including the sale of game titles and content on the PlayStation Store, as well as offering Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
