Sono stati annunciati i vincitori dei Game Developers Choice Awards 2017 e dell’Independent Games Festival , eventi paralleli alla GDC 2017 di San Francisco che premiano i migliori videogiochi dell’anno. Ecco i vincitori:

GDC Awards 2017:
Best Audio Inside (Playdead)
Ambassador Award Mark DeLoura (Nintendo, Sony, THQ, Ubisoft)
Lifetime Achievement Award Tim Sweeney (Epic Games founder)
Best VR/AR Game Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives (Owlchemy Labs)
Audience Award Battlefield 1 (EA DICE)
Game of the Year Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pioneer Award Jordan Mechner (Creatore di Prince of Persia)
Best Debut Campo Santo (Firewatch)
Best Design Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Best Mobile/Handheld Game Pokemon Go (Niantic)
Innovation Award No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Best Narrative Firewatch (Campo Santo)
Best Technology Uncharted 4 Fine di un Ladro (Naughty Dog)
Best Visual Art Inside (Playdead)

IGF 2017:
Excellence in Narrative ($3,000) Ladykiller in a Bind (Love Conquers All Games)
Excellence in Audio ($3,000) GoNNER (Art in Heart)
Best Student Game ($3,000) Un Pas Fragile (Géraud de Courrèges, Alisée Preud’homme, Gregory Parisi, Gaspard Morel)
Audience Award ($3,000) Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
alt.ctrl.GDC Award Fear Sphere (New Arcade)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($30,000) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)
Excellence in Design ($3,000) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)
Excellence in Visual Art ($3,000) Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
Nuovo Award ($5,000) Oiκοςpiel, Book I (David Kanaga)