2012 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Dishonored (Darren Chukitus)
• Far Cry 3 (Dan Hay)
• Journey (Robin Hunicke)
• Mass Effect 3 (Jesse Houston)
• The Walking Dead (Dan Connors & Kevin Bruner)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed III, Borderlands 2, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, The Unfinished Swan, XCOM: Enemy Unknown)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Assassin's Creed III (Alex Hutchinson & Marc-Alexis Côté)
• Borderlands 2 (Paul Hellquist)
• Far Cry 3 (Patrick Plourde & Patrik Méthé)
• Mass Effect 3 (Casey Hudson)
• The Walking Dead (Sean Vanaman, Jake Rodkin, Dennis Lenart, Eric Parsons, Nick Herman & Sean Ainsworth)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Dishonored, Halo 4, Max Payne 3, Sleeping Dogs)

Best Game Design

• Assassin's Creed III (Steven Masters)
• Dishonored (Christophe Carrier)
• Journey (Nicholas Clark, Bryan Singh & Chris Bell)
• Mass Effect 3 (Preston Watamaniuk)
• Xenoblade Chronicles (Koh Kojima)
  (Honourable Mentions: Borderlands 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Far Cry 3, Sound Shapes, XCOM: Enemy Unknown)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Dance Central 3 (Matt Boch, Jon Carter & Naoko Takamoto)
• Journey (Jenova Chen)
• New Super Mario Bros. U (Masataka Takemoto)
• Nintendo Land (Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)
  
• Skylanders: Giants (Nick Ruepp & David Nathanielsz)
  (Honourable Mentions: Just Dance 4, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, Rayman Jungle Run, Sound Shapes)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 13 (David Rutter & Kazuya Makita)
• LittleBigPlanet Karting (Andrew Bracken)
• NBA 2K13 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Alex Ward, Fiona Sperry & Matthew Webster)
• Trials Evolution (Robby Zinchak)
  (Honourable Mentions: F1 2012, Forza Horizon, Madden NFL 13, New Star Soccer, Pro Evolution Soccer 2013)

Best Technical Innovation

• Journey (John Edwards & Martin Middleton)
• Kinect Sesame Street TV (Ken Diego & J Milligan)
• Nintendo Land (Souichi Nakajima & Kenichi Nishida)
• The Unfinished Swan (Joshua M. Sarfaty & Joshua Beeler)
• The Walking Dead (Carl Muckenhoupt, Randy Tudor & Keenan Patterson)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Fez, Max Payne 3, Sound Shapes, ZombiU)

Best Multiplayer

• Assassin's Creed III (Mathieu Granjon & Michaël Denis-Servettaz)
• Borderlands 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II
• Journey
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Alex Veal, Andrew Broadbent, John Stanley & Simon Phipps)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Diablo III (Jay Wilson)
• FTL: Faster Than Light (Justin Ma)
• Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Daniel Kaplan & Markus Persson)
• Tropico 4 (Gabriel Dobrev)
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Garth DeAngelis, Clint McCaul & Amber Hardin)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dark Souls, Football Manager 2013, Great Big War Game, Orcs Must Die! 2, Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai)

Best Audio Design

• Assassin's Creed III (Mathieu Jeanson, Jean-Dominic Audet, Hugo Bastien & Patrick Melanson)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Brian Tuey, Chris Cowell, Stephen McCaul & Collin Ayers)
• Far Cry 3 (Jens Jungmark, Matthieu Dirrenberger, Nils Carlsson & Oliver Harrison)
• Halo 4 (Sōtarō Tojima & Terry Jones)
• Journey (Steve Johnson, Keith Charley, Gene Semel & David Wayne Collins)
  (Honourable Mentions: Mass Effect 3, Max Payne 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Resident Evil 6, Sound Shapes)

Best Music

• Assassin's Creed III (Lorne Balfe)
• Far Cry 3 (Brian Tyler)
• Journey (Austin Wintory)
• Mass Effect 3 (Sascha Dikiciyan, Sam Hulick, Christopher Lennertz, Clint Mansell & Cris Velasco)
• The Unfinished Swan (Joel Corelitz)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Jack Wall, Dear Esther - Jessica Curry, The Last Story - Nobuo Uematsu, Thomas Was Alone - David Housden, The Walking Dead - Jared Emerson-Johnson)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Gravity Rush (Keiichiro Toyama)
• Resident Evil Revelations (Koshi Nakanishi)
• Sound Shapes (Jonathan Mak & Shaw-Han Liem)
• Uncharted: Golden Abyss (John Garvin)
• The Walking Dead (Sean Vanaman, Jake Rodkin, Dennis Lenart, Eric Parsons, Nick Herman & Sean Ainsworth)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hero Academy, Kid Icarus: Uprising, New Star Soccer, Rayman Jungle Run, The Room)

Best Fighting Game

• Persona 4 Arena (Kazuhisa Wada & Takumi Iguchiya)
• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Omar Kendall)
• Soul Calibur V (Daishi Odashima & Haruki Suzaki)
• Street Fighter X Tekken (Taisaku Okada)
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Yuichi Yonemori)
  (Honourable Mentions: Awesomenauts, Dead or Alive 5, Karateka, UFC Undisputed 3, WWE 13)

Best Art Direction

• Borderlands 2 (Jeramy Cooke)
• Dishonored (Sébastien Mitton)
• Far Cry 3 (Jean-Alexis Doyon)
• Journey (Matt Nava & Aaron Jessie)
• The Unfinished Swan (Hokyo Lim)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed III, Dear Esther, Halo 4, The Room, Spec Ops: The Line)

Best Animation

• Assassin's Creed III (Guillaume Lefebvre, Elaine Duffy, Mike Mennillo & Philippe Trudelle)
• Far Cry 3 (Robert Darryl Purdy, Jonathan Guay, Sébastien Lépine & Kevin Ngan)
• Journey (Jacky Ke Jiang & Seiji Tanaka)
• Max Payne 3 (Mark Tennant, Anthony Kwan, Jonathan Moyes & Duncan Shields)
• Uncharted: Golden Abyss (James Conrad, Norman Cheng, DongJun Kim & Nathan Webb)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Borderlands 2, Hitman: Absolution, Mark of the Ninja, Persona 4 Arena)

Best Story/Writing

• Dishonored (Harvey Smith, Austin Grossman & Terri Brosius)
• Far Cry 3 (Jeffrey Yohalem & Lucien Soulban)
• Journey (Jenova Chen)
• Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell)
• The Walking Dead (Sean Vanaman, Mark Darin & Gary Whitta)
  (Honourable Mentions: Borderlands 2, The Last Story, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, Sleeping Dogs, Spec Ops: The Line)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Dameon Clarke - Borderlands 2 for voicing Handsome Jack
• Dave Fennoy - The Walking Dead for voicing Lee Everett
• Adrian Hough - Assassin's Creed III for voicing Haytham Kenway
• Melissa Hutchinson - The Walking Dead for voicing Clementine
• Nolan North - Uncharted: Golden Abyss for voicing Nathan Drake
  (Honourable Mentions: Nigel Carrington - Dear Esther, Rosario Dawson - Syndicate, Michael Mando - Far Cry 3, Emma Stone - Sleeping Dogs, Danny Wallace - Thomas Was Alone)