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Last night during GDC the Game Developers Choice Awards were handed out. Awards for developers and voted upon by developers. Nintendo came out of it all with 3 awards; two for Wii Sports, one for Twilight Princess.

Shigeru Miyamoto also recieved the Lifetime Achievement award which you could say makes the total awards count for Nintendo, four.

Here's the complete list of GDC award winners. Gears of War led the pack with 3 awards, while Okami and Wii Sports picked up two each.

Best Game: Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Rod Fergusson

Audio: Guitar Hero II (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Jeff Allen, Eric Brosius, Izzy Maxwell

Character Design: Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Mari Shimazaki, Sawaki Takeyasu, Kenichirou Yoshimura

Game Design: Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita

Technology: Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Michael Capps, Ray Davis, Tim Sweeney, Daniel Vogel

Visual Arts: Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Jerry O'Flaherty, Chris Perna

Writing: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
- Kyogoku Aya, Nate Bihldorff, Mitsuhiro Takano

New Studio: Iron Lore Entertainment (Titan Quest)
- Paul Chieffo, Jeff Goodsill, Brian Sullivan

Innovation: Line Rider (Bostjan Cadez), Okami (Clover/Capcom - Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya), Wii Sports (Nintendo - Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita)

Lifetime Achievement: Shigeru Miyamoto

First Penguin: Alexey Pajitnov (Tetris creator)

Maverick: Greg Costikyan (Manifesto Games)

Community Contribution: George "The Fat Man" Sanger (composer)

GDC 2007: Developers Choice Awards - IGN

Nintendo didnt win that much..and Gears of war Tear'd it up.

Gears of War won 3. Wii Sports and Okami took 2. 3 vs 2 is hardly a landslide.

Nintendo did pretty well. Four awards is a good amount, especially since the Wii just launched.

Yea, pretty good, nice work Nintendo.

I'm happy with the results. Gears of War was indeed a great game, and Nintendo won when it should have. Developers did good, this year around.

Gears of War deserved the awards they got and Nintendo deserved the awards they got and Shigeru Miyamoto definitely deserved his award. Congratulations to them all.

With all the flak Okami has been recieveing, calling it a Zelda rip off it's ironic that it got an award for most innovative. I havn't played the game yet though and can't exactly speak from experience.