The 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards
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2/14/2008 1:26:00 AM
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The D.I.C.E. Summit was organized by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences in Las Vegas February 6 - 8. These 2007 game awards are validation for what was widely-regarded as the biggest year in recent memory for video games.
The back-patting messages from award-winners we've been receiving at Gaming Nexus are all well and good, but let's just lay all the IAA award-winners out for everyone to see. Sorry for the long, irreverent post, but this only just now struck me. (And sorry that we never posted official reviews for Assassin's Creed and BioShock -- we were all too busy playing them -- and, in my case, incessantly blogging about them in the now-slimmed-down AT&T Blue Room -- so we never got anything etched in stone). Below, I've linked the reviews that we did archive:
The back-patting messages from award-winners we've been receiving at Gaming Nexus are all well and good, but let's just lay all the IAA award-winners out for everyone to see. Sorry for the long, irreverent post, but this only just now struck me. (And sorry that we never posted official reviews for Assassin's Creed and BioShock -- we were all too busy playing them -- and, in my case, incessantly blogging about them in the now-slimmed-down AT&T Blue Room -- so we never got anything etched in stone). Below, I've linked the reviews that we did archive:
- Handheld Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Family Game of the Year: Rock Band
- Outstanding Achievement in Animation: Assassin's Creed
- Outstanding Achievement in Engineering: Crysis
- Outstanding Character Performance: The Orange Box: Portal
- Outstanding Achievement in Story Development: BioShock
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Play Engineering: The Orange Box: Portal
- Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Downloadable Game of the Year: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
- Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition: BioShock
- Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack: Rock Band
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design: BioShock
- Cellular Game of the Year: skate.
- Role-Playing Game of the Year: Mass Effect
- Racing Game of the Year: Motorstorm
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Design: The Orange Box: Portal
- Outstanding Innovation in Gaming: Rock Band
- Adventure Game of the Year: Super Mario Galaxy
- Sports Game of the Year: skate.
- Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year: Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- Action Game of the Year: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
- Computer Game of the Year: The Orange Box
- Console Game of the Year: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Overall Game of the Year: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
[Pictured: Overall Game of the Year Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]
