La organización de los Game Developers Choice Awards ha publicado la lista de nominados para para decimoquinta edición de sus premios a los mejores juegos del año, cuyos ganadores se darán a conocer el próximo 4 de marzo, durante la celebración de la Game Developers Conference 2015, que tendrá lugar desde el 4 al 6 de marzo en San Francisco, Estados Unidos.

Son estos:

Juego del Año

  • Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
  • La Tierra Media: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
  • Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
  • Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
  • Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Menciones de honor: 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. y Bandai Namco/Nintendo).

Premio a la innovación

  • Bounden (Game Oven)
  • La Tierra Media: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
  • This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
  • Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Menciones de honor: 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)

Mejor 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)

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

Mejor diseño

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

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

Mejor juego portátil/móvil

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

Menciones de honor: 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)

Mejor diseño artístico

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

Menciones de honor: 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)

Mejor narrativa

  • 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
  • This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
  • Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
  • La Tierra-media: Sombras de Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Menciones de honor: 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)

Mejor sonido

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

Menciones de honor: 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).

Mejor tecnología

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

Menciones de honor: 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).

Vía VG247.