Gears of War bags 8 at 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards |
Ó
The highly successful action shooter grabbed the most awards at the 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards held in Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas last February 8. The ceremony is hosted by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS). It is a peer-driven and peer-based awards honoring outstanding products, talented individuals and development teams that have made a contribution to the advancement of the game industry.
Trailing just behind the Epic Game's Gears of War is Nintendo's Wii Sports, which managed to grab three awards. Minoru Arakawa, former president of Nintendo of America, was also honored for the first time with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Honored with him were Howard Lincoln, chairman emeritus of Nintendo of America, and Danielle Bunten Berry, game pioneer. The former received a Lifetime Achievement Award and the latter was inducted to the AIAS Hall of Fame.
Joseph Olin, president of AIAS, said, "Last night, we recognized the brightest and most innovative in video games in what can be considered as one of the best years the video game industry has seen."
The winners and their respective winning categories are:
I. Game of the Year:
a. Overall
* Gears of War
b. Computer
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
c. Console
* Gears of War
d. Handheld Game of the Year
* Nintendo Brain Age
II. Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
* Wii Sports
III. Outstanding Achievement:
a. Animation
* Gears of War
b. Art Direction
* Gears of War
c. Soundtrack
* Guitar Hero 2
d. Original Music Composition
* LocoRoco
e. Sound Design
* Call of Duty 3
f. Story and Character Development
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
g. Game Play Engineering
* Wii Sports
h. Online Game Play
* Gears of War
i. Visual Engineering
* Gears of War
j. Game Design
* Wii Sports
IV. Outstanding Character Performance:
a. Male
* Gears of War
b. Female
* Viva Pinata
V. Genre Awards:
a. Sports Game of the Year
* Tony Hawk Project 8
b. First-Person Action Game of the Year
* Rainbow Six: Vegas
c. Role-Playing Game of the Year
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
d. Fighting Game of the Year
* Fight Night Round 3
e. Action/ Adventure Game of the Year
* Gears of War
f. Racing Game of the Year
* Burnout Revenge
g. Children's Game of the Year
* LocoRoco
h. Downloadable Game of the Year
* Bookworm Adventures
i. Family Game of the Year
* Guitar Hero 2
j. Simulation Game of the Year
* Microsoft Flight Simulator X
k. Strategy Game of the Year
* Company of Heroes
l. Massively Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of the Year
* Guild Wars Nightfall
m. Mobile Game of the Year
* Orcs and Elves
Each nominated title was reviewed and played by a panel of 12 AIAS members for verification. Qualified Academy members voted for the nominees. The voting was accomplished online in secret and was supervised and certified by eBallot.
The 10th Interactive Achievement Awards will be the first time the IAA will give out the Lifetime Achievement Award. Hall of Fame Inductee Dan Bunten is the tenth member to be inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame and will be joining Trip Hawkins, Peter Molyneux, Yu Suzuki, Will Wright, John Carmack, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto and Richard Garriott.
41 Jumps PSP homebrew - PSP live TV v0.3
21 Jumps PSP homebrew - PSP Live TV v0.4
17 Jumps Buy two, get one free at Best Buy
10 Jumps Atlus now mass-recruiting debuggers
10 Jumps PSP homebrew - QMixer v1.0
Contact Us:
The QJ.net Network |
 |
| Site | Feed |
| QJ.NET | RSS |
| Nintendo DS | RSS |
| PlayStation 3 | RSS |
| PSP Updates | RSS |
| Wii | RSS |
| Xbox 360 | RSS |
| MMORPG | RSS |
| Personal Computer Games | RSS |
| iPhone - iPod Touch | RSS |
| QJ.NET Forums | RSS |
Add QJ.NET
User Favorites - December
User Favorites - December
Categories
Archives
Accessories
Add-ons
Applications
Artwork
Batteries
Cheats
Deals
Emulators
Events
Featured Articles
Firmware
Flash Applications
Flash games
Game Demos
Games
Hacks & Exploits
Homebrew Applications
Homebrew Demos
Homebrew Development
Homebrew Emulators
Homebrew Games
Homebrew Themes
How-To
Humor
Imports
Interviews
Magazines
Mods
MY QJ
News
Off Topic
On Shelves This Week
Opinions & Analysis
Podcasts
Previews
PSP Go
PSP Minis
PSP Slim & Lite
QJ How-To Series
QuickJump QuickGuide
QuickJump QuickPeek
Reviews
Rumors
Scans
Screenshots
Site News
Titles
UMD Movies
Videos
Weekend Warrior
Wi-Fi
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
Comments [refresh]
Enough $aid...
only came here to try to diss the ps3 + FANBOY
congrats guys, cant wait for UT3 after hearing about all the good things about GoW. Oh and CoD3 getting the best sound? *confused look* I own that game AND my biggest complaint is that the gun switching sounds and the footsteps sound like they were recorded at 8-bit 22khz which is telephone quality while the rest of the game is CD quality sound. THAT is a MAJOR FLAW yet somehow it won..
How is this anti-PS3 news? It is videogame related news which is relevant to many platforms. The fact that there are no PS3 games here shouldn't offend you. In fact, you should be glad that some of these titles are actually coming out for your console a few days before april. Though, it doesn't say much about QJ when they pull stories from their PS3 portal just because the opinion of the editors gets their audiences all up in arms. Pulling a story is worse than apologizing in my opinion.
NOT FAKE YALL LOOK CLOSER AND SCREW YOU FLAMERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPCjrWmx2r0
It would run at like 3FPS because its not optimised for the Cell CPU and the VERY different acitechture. ALSO you can clearly see him press on the analog stick and nothing happen at one point.
I guess GTHD didn't qualify huh Matt. Good luck with your POS PS3.
It sad that Okami was left out because of the AIAS fee policy. No offence to the rest of the nominees and winners, but I think Okami would have picked up a few trophys. Art, Animation and Best Console Game at least. But thats just me.
I bet that a few years down the road, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences will be kicking themselves in the but for choosing Gears of War because they will realize that Wii Sports reinvented the whole idea of video games! I also believe that TP got little recognition because people saw it as a port from last gen. So what? This is the only game I got so into, that I actually panicked several times! I even felt closed in when several enemies were around me! I also could not believe how low the loading times were: The longest loading time was about 3 seconds; I would like to see Gears of War try to top that, and keep that title: Metroid Prime on the Game Cube eliminated the loading times! I bet that MP3 will do it again, with a larger disk format.
Oh and I bet that other games that come out in the future will top Gears of War by such a big margin, that it will be treated only as a short lived game. Guess what? How many people remember Super Mario brothers? I bet almost everyone who played it. And what about Goldeneye 64? People remember it for only one reason: it changed multi player fps games for ever. Oh and who could not forget Sonic the Hedgehog (the original one)?
I bet that Gears of War will go down only as a popular game that pushed graphics forward a little bit (in several more years, maby the next gen after this one).
I beleive that micro$oft put some money into making sure that their games won...
Sorry about making it a little long.......
Please take this with a grain of salt!
Half of the video is dark and it would not be hard to press a video input button to show an Xbox 360 running and then switch back to a PS3 screen. When the screens transition to the XMB then to the game, it is not absolute in showing the real scope of what is going on and what this guy is doing. Another thing is why would this guy submit this poor quality video. When he talks about all that is going on and saying things like "you can see the hard drive light blinking" and such you can't because of how he did the video.
Anyhow thanks for the interesting video. It gets me thinking.
Put a lot of time and money into development and you're bound to get it right. Big deal, MS throws the big bucks - but they are making them back in gold.
Gears of War is obviously the killer app right now. If you're a fps person or not - it's pretty amazing.
Congrats
just goes to show that the ps3 is no competition this go round. not even a mention of that RFoM game? who would have thunk it? LOL! suckers
sooo, let me get this straight...
ps3 fans paid $200 MORE just so they could play (with poor quality I might add) another consoles games? haha, that just proves how stupid ps3 fans are. thanks for showing everyone this, it made my day!
Wii60 FTW!
Even if Gears could run on PS3 (which I assume it could since UT3 will, and it's supposed to look better than Gears) it would take way more than to just yank the files from the original disc and tweak it a little.
You seem to have got your Keyboard set up wrong as your s is actually coming out as a Dollar sign,
Go back and play on you NO AWARD P$3 made by $ony
PS3 got what it deserved NOTHING,this is not being stupid its just a fact it has nothing that should get any awards for, but why PS3 owners think they need to comment negatively against Gears and the 360 is beyond me.
And as for those posters posting some complete crap about a fake pointless youtube video is showing that they have no confidence in their system,then again I suppose seeing it now is being outsold 3 to 1 by the Wii in its own stronghold of Japan must be making alarm bells ring.
OMG of course Microsoft put money into games,do you relize Gears of war cost less than 10 Million$ to make,(MS pay for their investment in the game) Now look how many millions they have sold the Profit is amazing and so is Microsoft Business sense,but of course you choose to ignore the fact that if the game would of been crap MS would of LOST millions.
Do you really think $ony dont do exactly the same thing then?.
Guys, Gears is a great game. what most are failing to look at is the fact that resistance fall of man is a release date game for a system that no one knew what it could do. Was gears of war a release date game? The two titles shouldn't even be compared. resistance as well as most of the other ps3 games were rushed like we can all expect from any new system. What games on 360 were as good as Resistance when the 360 came out? aside from that a measly 16 guys online at one time? im sorry but 40 man brawls is where its at. anybody that says it lags hasn't played it or has a bad internet connection. Your all right though, Gears looks great has, great gameplay and deserved to win. Lets see what PS3 does in 2007. KILLZONE ANYONE?
You cuttingly and wittingly point out that Microsoft's motivation is money. I'd thought that was the entire point behind setting up a business.
Resistance is a good game that's why got like in nines from a lot of websites and magazines. I personally believe it to be a ok game. In my opinion the only reason it got nines was because it was a launch game. Nevertheless who cares it keep me occupied for about fourteen good hours. Also I didn't care for forty man brawl, it's just two many people. I think thirty would be ideal for any fps. Also 360 had a lot of games over looked by reviewers; King Kong, Kameo, Project Gotham, Condemned, and NFS were all great games that I bought for the 360. The only game I own to this day for PS3 is Resistance. One more thing Killzone is going to suck. I hate to say but I feel that it will not live up to the hype, hope that I'm wrong.
lmfao ppl tried 2 compare gears and resistance i dont hear ***** about that game but gears is all over the net and qj!