Uncharted 2 Wins Big With Five Winners at the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, Including Game of the Year

Creative Word-Wielding Adventure Game, Scribblenauts, Wins for Best Handheld Game and Innovation Award; Other Big Winners Include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Farmville, Flower and Torchlight

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2010 - Naughty Dog's critically-acclaimed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the big
winner at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, presented at a
ceremony this evening at UBM TechWeb Game Network's 2010 Game Developers
Conference (GDC), receiving a total of five awards, including Best Writing
and the coveted Game of the Year award.

Another major honoree, 5th Cell received the award for Best Handheld Game
and the Innovation Award, for its creativity-fueled portable game,
Scribblenauts. Zynga, creators of the wildly addictive and popular Facebook
game, Farmville, received the honor for Best New Social/Online Game, marking
the first winner for this inaugural category.

Other winners include Rocksteady Studios' dark and gritty adventure,
Batman: Arkham Asylum, which won for Best Game Design. The Best Debut Game
went to Runic Games' Torchlight. The Best Downloadable Game award went to
thatgamecompany's Flower, marking the second such award for the developer,
following their win in 2008 with fl0w.

The Game Developers Choice Awards, which honor the very best games of the
year, created for developers and voted on by developers. The finalists were
chosen via a combination of open game industry nominations and the votes of
the leading creators in the Choice Awards Advisory Committee. Starting this
year, winners were selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards-specific
International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), which is a new invitation-only
group comprised of 500 leading game creators from all parts of the video game
industry.

This year, John Carmack, the technological patriarch and co-founder of id
Software was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award for more than two
decades of groundbreaking technical contributions, and his role pioneering
and popularizing the first-person shooter genre with the groundbreaking Doom
and Quake series.

The Game Developers Choice Awards also honored Jerry Holkins, Mike
Krahulik and Robert Khoo, the crew behind the popular webcomic Penny Arcade,
with the Ambassador Award. The trio, who have also created and spearheaded
the Child's Play Charity and the Penny Arcade Expo, were awarded the honor
for their work creating their genuine, gamer-friendly empire by skewering
video game culture and developers while building up a following, events and
an industry-leading video game charity that help epitomize the positive
elements of 'gamer spirit.'

Finally, Gabe Newell is being given the Pioneer Award for his work in
co-creating PC key digital download service Steam, and helping to make
possible some of the most important video games of recent years — from the
Half-Life series through Portal to Team Fortress and beyond.

    The recipients of the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards are:

    Game of the Year
    Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)

    Best Game Design:
    Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)

    Best Writing:
    Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)

    Best Debut Game:
    Torchlight (Runic Games)

    Best Technology:
    Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)

    Best Handheld Game:
    Scribblenauts (5th Cell)

    Best Visual Arts:
    Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)

    Innovation Award:
    Scribblenauts (5th Cell)

    Best Audio:
    Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)

    Best Downloadable Game:
    Flower (thatgamecompany)

    Recipients for the evening's special awards were:

    Lifetime Achievement Award
    John Carmack

    Pioneer Award
    Gabe Newell

    Ambassador Award
    Penny Arcade (Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Robert Khoo)

"This year has seen some incredible titles across platforms and genres,
big-budget blockbusters like Uncharted 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum to
addictive online games like Farmville all made for an amazing year in games,"
says Meggan Scavio, event director of the Game Developers Conference. "The
winners at the Game Developers Choice Awards have exhibited that they can
create compelling experiences that set the bar even higher for other
developers to follow. We'd like to thank all the winners and the nominees for
their countless hours furthering the art of game creation, and crafting some
awesome experiences for gamers the world over."

For more information about the awards and all the recipients, please
visit: www.gamechoiceawards.com/

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