GDC Choice Award Winners
Portal takes the cake
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Author: Jeff 'Judasen' McAllister

The 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards were handed out last night in San Francisco and boy, did Portal clean up. Bioshock and 2K Games pulled in their fair share, but it's nice to see a small game like Portal get some major kudos without heavy advertising or development costs behind it. Here's a list of all the winners from the GDC Choice Awards.



2007 Best Game Design

Portal



2007 Best Visual Art

BioShock



2007 Best Technology

Crysis



2007 Best Writing

BioShock



2007 Best Audio

BioShock



2007 Best Debut

Crackdown



2007 Innovation

Portal



2007 Best Handheld Game

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass



2007 Best Downloadable Game

Flow



2007 Game of the Year

Portal



Lifetime Achievement Award

Sid Meier



Pioneer Award

Ralph Baer



Ambassador Award

Jason Della Rocca

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