Elden Ring Wins Game of the Year at the 23rd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards
Elden Ring won Game of the Year at the 23rd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards. The awards ceremony was held at his Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco this week as part of the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC). A peer-based event, the Game Developer Choice Awards are voted on by the developers themselves.
FromSoftware’s hugely successful fantasy blockbuster also won Best Visual Art and Best Design awards.
Sony Santa Monica Studios’ God of War Ragnarok also enjoyed a successful night with three trophies of its own. God of War Ragnarok won the Best Audio, Best Technology and Audience Awards.
Industry legend John Romero won the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Game Developer Choice Awards. The co-founder of id Software, who helped create Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, and Quake, is best known for pioneering first-person shooting in his game genre and multiplayer in his deathmatch concept. is at the forefront of He is believed to have created The Pioneer Award of the Year was awarded posthumously in 1964 to her Mabel Addis, the designer and writer of The Sumerian Game. .
The full list of awards and winners is below.
- Best Debut: Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
- Best Visual Arts: Elden Ring (From Software/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Best Audio: God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Best Narrative: Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
- Social Impact Award: Citizen Sleeper (Jumping Through Time / Fellow Traveler)
- Innovation Award: Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions)
- Best technology: God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Best design: Elden Ring (From Software/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Audience Award: God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Game of the Year: Elden Ring (From Software/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Pioneer Award: Mabel Addis
- Lifetime Achievement Award: John Romero
Since its release, Elden Ring has won many major GOTY Awards, including Game of the Year at the 26th Annual DICE Awards, New York Game Awards 2023, and Game Awards 2022. Year. If you haven’t tried this 10 out of 10 hit yet, now is the perfect time for him to join the other users that over 20 million already have.
Luke is a game editor in IGN’s Sydney office. You can chat with him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly.
