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)