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.