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Journey wins big at Game Developers Choice Awards 2013

Spoiler alert: Journey wins pretty much everything
Andrew Yoon
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The Game Developers Choice Awards are probably the most important in games, as the people that make games vote on their favorites of the year. Unsurprisingly, thatgamecompany's Journey takes home the big award--and most every other award this year. In fact, it took home six awards, in every category it was nominated in. Impressively, it even won "Best Visual Arts," beating technical powerhouses Halo 4 and Far Cry 3. Best Downloadable Game Winner:
  • Journey (thatgamecompany)
Runners-up:
  • The Walking Dead
  • Trials: Evolution
  • Mark of the Ninja
  • Spelunky

Journey

Best Narrative Winner: Runners-up:
  • Virtue's Last Reward
  • Dishonored
  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • Mass Effect 3

The Walking Dead

Best Visual Arts Winner:
  • Journey (thatgamecompany)
Runners-up:
  • Halo 4
  • Dishonored
  • Borderlands 2
  • Far Cry 3

Journey

Best Technology Winner: Runners-up:
  • Planetside 2
  • Assassin's Creed 3
  • Halo 4
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Far Cry 3

Best Game Design Winner:
  • Journey (thatgamecompany)
Runners-up:
  • Dishonored
  • Mark of the Ninja
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • Spelunky

Journey

Best Handheld/Mobile Game Winner: Runners-up:
  • Gravity Rush
  • Sound Shapes
  • Hero Academy
  • Kid Icarus: Uprising

The Room

Best Audio Winner:
  • Journey (thatgamecompany)
Runners-up:
  • Assassin's Creed 3
  • Hotline Miami
  • Sound Shapes
  • Halo 4

Journey

Best Debut Winner: Runners-up:
  • Dust: An Elysian Tale
  • Fez
  • The Unfinished Swan
  • The Room

FTL: Faster Than Light

Innovation Award Winner:
  • Journey (thatgamecompany)
Runners-up:
  • FTL: Faster Than Light
  • The Unfinished Swan
  • ZombiU
  • Mark of the Ninja

Journey

Game of the Year Winner:
  • Journey (thatgamecompany)
Runners-up:
  • Dishonored
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • Mass Effect 3
  • The Walking Dead

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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