Il prossimo 25 marzo si terrà a San Francisco la Game Developers Conference 2009, la prestigiosa manifestazione in cui vengono premiati i migliori sviluppatori di videogiochi dell'anno 2008: sono da notare tra le candidature della categoria "Giochi dell'anno" tre titoli di grosso calibro, sarà interessante vedere chi la spunterà. Vi proponiamo di seguito la lista dei finalisti in attesa di conoscere i vincitori.

Best Game Design

• Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
• Braid (Number None)
• Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

Best Visual Art

• Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
• Prince Of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
• Gears Of War 2 (Epic Games)

Best Technology

• Spore (Maxis)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
• Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
• Gears Of War 2 (Epic Games)

Best Writing

• Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
• Braid (Number None)
• Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
• Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)

Best Audio

• Dead Space (EA Redwood Shores)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
• Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
• Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
• Gears Of War 2 (Epic Games)

Best Debut

• Braid (Number None)
• Sins Of A Solar Empire (Ironclad Games)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
• World Of Goo (2D Boy)
• Soul Bubbles (Mekensleep)

Innovation

• Spore (Maxis)
• World Of Goo (2D Boy)
• Boom Blox (EA Los Angeles)
• Braid (Number None)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

Best Handheld

• Patapon (Pyramid/SCE Japan)
• Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin (Intelligent Systems)
• God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (Ready At Dawn Studios)
• Echochrome (SCE Japan)
• The World Ends With You (Jupiter/Square Enix)

Best Downloadable Game

• Castle Crashers (The Behemoth)
• Braid (Number None)
• World Of Goo (2D Boy)
• N+ (Metanet/Slick Entertainment)
• Pixeljunk Eden (Q-Games)

Game of the Year

• Fable 2 (Lionhead Studios)
• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
• Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)