Journey Currently Leading The Game Developers Choice Awards Nominations

Things have been going great for thatgamecompany’s incredible PlayStation Network title, Journey. Earlier this month we learned that it was leading the D.I.C.E. Awards with 11 nominations, and now the finalists for the 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards have been announced.

The games in this list were chosen through voting that was open to games industry professionals, and Journey is leading the nominations list by featuring in six categories.

Other notable titles include Dishonored, which has been nominated in four categories, and The Walking Dead, which got three. Assassin’s Creed III, Halo 4, The Unfinished Swan and FTL: Faster Than Light are all titles that also received multiple nominations.

The awards will be given out at an event on March 27 during GDC. The winners of each category will be chosen by the International Choice Awards Network, which is an invitation-only group of people that is made up of leading game creators.

Also on the agenda is the first-ever Audience Award, open to all finalists, which will begin an online voting process in mid-February, and a number of special award categories, such as Pioneer, Ambassador and Lifetime Achievement, will be announced soon.

If you’d like to view the full list of nominees for the Game Developers Choice Awards, look down below.

Best Audio

• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games/Devolver Digital)
• Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)

Best Debut

• Humble Hearts (Dust: An Elysian Tail)
• Polytron Corporation (Fez)
• Giant Sparrow (The Unfinished Swan)
• Subset Games (FTL: Faster Than Light)
• Fireproof Games (The Room )

Best Game Design

• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
• Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games)

Best Downloadable Game

• The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
• Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull)
• Trials: Evolution (RedLynx/Microsoft Studios)
• Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Best Technology

• Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• PlanetSide 2 (Sony Online Entertainment)
• Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Treyarch/Activision)
• Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Gravity Rush (SCE Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Hero Academy (Robot Entertainment)
• Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• The Room (Fireproof Games)
• Kid Icarus: Uprising (Sora/Nintendo)

Best Narrative

• Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment/2K Games)
• Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
• Virtue’s Last Reward (Chunsoft/Aksys Games)

Best Visual Arts

• Borderlands 2 (Gearbox Software/2K Games)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)

Innovation

• Mark of the Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
• The Unfinished Swan (Giant Sparrow/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• ZombiU (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)

Game of the Year

• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
• Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)