La organización de la Game Developers Conference ha anunciado los nominados de la 15ª edición de los Game Developers Choice Awards, que se entregarán a principios de marzo, el día 4, coincidiendo con la celebración de la Game Developers Conference 2015 y del Independent Games Festival.
El juego más nominado es La Tierra Media: Sombras de Mordor, con cinco nominaciones, seguido de títulos como Alien Isolation, Destiny o Bayonetta. La lista de nominados es la siguiente:
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)
Middle-Earth: Shadow of 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)
