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I vincitori dei prestigiosi GDC Awards 07 sono stati annunciati a San Francisco nel Moscone Convention Center, alla presenza di grandi nomi dell'industria videoludica.
I vincitori sono stati:
Gears of War (Xbox 360) di Epic Games e di Microsoft Game Studios ha vinto il premio di miglior videogame in assoluto ed anche quelli per Visual Arts e Technology.

Okami di Clover Studios e Capcom Entertainment e Wii Sports di Nintendo, hanno vinto entrambi due premi: Okami (PS2) per il Character Design, mentre Wii Sports (Wii) quello per il Game Design. Ad entrambi è stato poi assegnato il premio per l'innovazione. Per il settore Audio è stato premiato Guitar Hero II (PS2) di Harmonix Music e RedOctane, mentre The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) di Nintendo ha avuto il premio per miglior sceneggiatura.
Il team di programmazione Iron Lore Entertainment (creatore di Titan Quest) ha avuto il premio New Studio.
Shigeru Miyamoto, creatore di Mario, Zelda e Donkey Kong ha avuto un premio alla carriera.


Ecco quali erano le nominations 2007:

Audio
Company of Heroes (Relic Entertainment / THQ)
- Crispin Hands, John Johnson, Jennifer Lewis, John Tennant
DEFCON: Everybody Dies (Introversion Software)
- Alistair Lindsay, Michael Maidment
Guitar Hero II (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Jeff Allen, Eric Brosius, Izzy Maxwell
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (Crystal Dynamics / Eidos Interactive)
- Troels Folmann, Karl Gallagher, Mike Peaslee, Gregg Stephens
LocoRoco (Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Kemmei Adachi, Tomonobu Kikuchi, Kouji Niikura, Nobuyuki Shimizu

Character Design
Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)
- Hideo Minaba, Hiroshi Minagawa, Akihiko Yoshida
LocoRoco (Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Tsutomu Kouno, Keigo Tsuchiya,
Ōkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)- Mari Shimazaki, Sawaki Takeyasu, Kenichirou Yoshimura
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft Montpellier Studio / Ubisoft Entertainment)
- Michel Ancel, Charles Beirnaert, Hubert Chevillard, Florent Sacre
Viva Piñata (Rare / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Ryan Stevenson

Game Design
Bully (Rockstar Vancouver / Rockstar Games)
- Michael Skupa
Ōkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Hideki Kamiya
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Todd Howard
Viva Piñata (Rare / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Justin Cook, Gregg Mayles
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita


Technology
Company of Heroes (Relic Entertainment / THQ)
- Drew Dunlop, Shelby Hubick, David Swinerd, Ian Thomson
Dead Rising (Capcom Entertainment)
- Shinya Ikuta, Tomofumi Ishida, Yasuhide Sawada, Tomohiro Ueda
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Michael Capps, Ray Davis, Tim Sweeney, Daniel Vogel
Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis (Rockstar San Diego / Rockstar Games)
- Ted Carson, Eugene Foss, Wil Paredes, Steve Reed
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Takuhiro Dohta, Takeshi Miyamoto, Keizo Ohta, Kenta Sato

Visual Arts
Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)
- Isamu Kamikokuryo, Hideo Minaba, Akihiko Yoshida
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Jerry O'Flaherty, Chris Perna
Ōkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Naoki Katakai, Kenichirou Yoshimura
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Matthew Carofano, Christiane Meister, Istvan Pely
Viva Piñata (Rare / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Ed Bryan, Ryan Stevenson


Sceneggiatura
Bully (Rockstar Vancouver / Rockstar Games)
- Dan Houser, Jacob Krarup
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Funcom / Aspyr Media)
- Dag Scheve, Ragnar Tørnquist
Sam & Max Episode 1: Culture Shock (Telltale Games / GameTap)
- Brendan Ferguson, Dave Grossman, Steve Purcell
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Ken Rolston
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Kyogoku Aya, Nate Bihldorff, Mitsuhiro Takano

Best Game
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Rod Fergusson
Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Todd Howard
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto
Wii Sports(Nintendo)
- Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita

New Studio
Gastronaut Studios (Small Arms)
- Jacob Van Wingen, Don Wurster
Iron Lore Entertainment (Titan Quest)
- Paul Chieffo, Jeff Goodsill, Brian Sullivan
Naked Sky Entertainment (RoboBlitz)
- Joshua Glazer, Tian Mu, Sam Thibault
Ready At Dawn Studios (Daxter)
- Didier Malenfant, Andrea Pessino, Ru Weerasuriya
Wadjet Eye Games (The Shivah)
- Dave Gilbert