GDC Award nominees announced; Shadow of Mordor cleans up

Tom Sykes

GDC, or the Game Developers Conference, is due to take place in March, during which some lovely awards will be handed out to games that are innovative, well-designed, have nice art or good stories, or were just the best games of 2014 (in the judges' opinions). There are some great PC games in the list of nominations this year, including Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien Isolation, and Hearthstone up for the GDC Awards' Game of the Year. One of those was PC Gamer's GOTY, by the way, but which one. Yeah it was Alien. Remember?
Other PC games nominated include The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and This War of Mine for the Innovation award, Shovel Knight and The Banner Saga for Best Debut, and Kentucky Route Zero Act 3 for Best Narrative. Shadow of Mordor did particularly well, securing five nominations in total, including Best Narrative for some reason. Here's the full list:
Game of the Year

• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Honorable Mentions: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)