TVGA (Video Games)

2004 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Dan Houser & Leslie Benzies)
Half-Life 2 (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
Halo 2 (Michel Bastien, Hamilton Chu & Curtis Creamer)
Pikmin 2 (Shigeru Miyamoto & Takashi Tezuka)
World of Warcraft (Carlos Guerrero & Shane Dabiri)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Andrew Semple)
Half-Life 2 (David Speyrer)
Halo 2 (Jason Jones)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Hideo Kojima)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Mark Pacini)

Best Game Design
Fable (Peter Molyneux, Dene Carter, Ben Huskins & Mark Webley)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Craig Filshie, Imran Sarwar, William Mills & Chris Rothwell)
Half-Life 2 (Dave Riller & Matt T. Wood)
Katamari Damacy (Masatoshi Ogita)
World of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Allen Adham)

Best Family Game
Donkey Konga (Hiroyuki Onoda)
Katamari Damacy (Keita Takahashi)
Mario Party 6 (Shuichiro Nishiya)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Grady Hunt)
WarioWare: Mega Party Game$ (Goro Abe & Osamu Yamauchi)

Best Sport/Racing Game
Burnout 3: Takedown (Fiona Sperry & Siobhan Reddy)
Madden NFL 2005 (Phil Frazier & Jeremy Strauser)
Mario Power Tennis (Haruki Kodera)
NBA Ballers (Mark Turmell)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (Mike Olsen)

Best Technical Innovation
Donkey Konga (Masanori Higashi, Hiroyuki Akamatsu, Ayako Murakami & Yoshiro Kurohata)
Half-Life 2 (Yahn Bernier & Brian Jacobson)
Halo 2 (Michael Evans, Chris Butcher, Charles Gough & Ben Wallace)
Katamari Damacy (Kazumi Yamabe)
The Sims 2 (Matthew M. Brown & David Gregory)

Best Multiplayer
Half-Life 2
Halo 2
World of Warcraft

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Kazutoki Kono)
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth (Chris Corry & Bing Gordon)
RollerCosater Tycoon 3 (Jonny Watts)
Rome: Total War (Mike Simpson)
The Sims 2 (Charles London)

Best Sound Design
Doom 3 (Christian Antkow & Ed Lima)
Halo 2 (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell & Jay Weinland)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Sōtarō Tojima, Hiroe Noguchi, Waichiro Ozaki & Ryoji Makimura)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Clark Wen & Scott Peterson)
Myst IV: Revelation (Mathieu Jeanson, Steven Dumont, Alexandre Letendre & Jocelyn Daoust)

Best Music
Fable (Russell Shaw & Danny Elfman)
Halo 2 (Martin O'Donnell)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Jeremy Soule)
Killzone (Joris de Man)
Rome: Total War (Jeff van Dyck)

Best Handheld Game
Kingdom Hearts: Chains of Memories (Tetsuya Nomura & Aguro Tanaka)
Metroid: Zero Mission (Yoshio Sakamoto)
Super Mario 64 DS (Shinichi Ikematsu)

Best Fighting Game
Custom Robo (Keiji Okayasu)
Dead or Alive: Ultimate (Tomonobu Itagaki)
Mortal Kombat: Deception (Ed Boon)

Best Art Direction
Fable (Ian Yarwood-Lovett)
Half-Life 2 (Viktor Antonov)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Todd Keller)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Mickail Labat)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (Dev Madan)

Best Animation
Half-Life 2 (Miles Estes & Bay Raitt)
Halo 2 (William O'Brian, Mike Budd, John Butkus & Nathan Walpole)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Masahiro Yoshinaga, Makoto Akashi, Goro Kaneko & So Toyota)
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Sylvain Bernard, Paul David Jesper, Guillaume Lefebvre & Steeve Oullet)
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Kevin Grow, David Hancock, John Lally & David Pritchard)

Best Story/Writing
The Bard's Tale (Matthew Findley, Eric Flannum, Dennis M. Miller & John Parry)
Fable (James Leach)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Dan Houser, James Worrall & DJ Pooh)
Half-Life 2 (Marc Laidlaw)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Hironobu Suzuki & Misao Fukuda)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Vin Diesel - Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay for voicing Richard B. Riddick
Peter Fonda - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for voicing "The Truth"
Robert Guillaume - Half-Life 2 for voicing Eli Vance
Samuel L. Jackson - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for voicing Frank Tenpenny
Matt Olsen - Sly 2: Band of Thieves for voicing Bentley
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2005 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Call of Duty 2 (Ken Murphy)
God of War (Shannon Studstill)
Guitar Hero (Daniel Sussman)
Nintendogs (Hideki Konno & Shigeru Miyamoto)
Shadow of the Colossus (Kenji Kaido)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Call of Duty 2 (Jason West)
God of War (David Jaffe)
Peter Jackson's King Kong (Michel Ancel)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Jean-Christophe Guyot)
Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)

Best Game Design
God of War (David Jaffe)
Guitar Hero (Rob Kay)
The Movies (Adrian Moore)
Nintendogs (Junji Morii)
Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)

Best Family Game
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (Yukihiro Yamazaki)
Guitar Hero (Greg LoPiccolo)
Mario Party 7 (Shuichiro Nishiya)
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (Grady Hunt)
We Love Katamari (Keita Takahashi)

Best Sport/Racing Game
Burnout Revenge (Fiona Sperry & Alex Ward)
NBA 2K6 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Kimihiro Taniyama)
SSX on Tour (Steve Anthony)
Super Mario Strikers (Mike Inglehart)

Best Technical Innovation
God of War (Tim Moss)
Guitar Hero (Philip Winston)
The Movies (James Brown, Matthew Chilton, Jonathan Askew & Cliff Harris)
Nintendogs (Yoshitaka Aijoka, Yasushi Ebisawa, Soichi Nakajima & Yuzuru Ogawa)
Shadow of the Colossus (Jinji Horagai)

Best Multiplayer
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Guild Wars
Guitar Hero

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Hisashi Nogami)
Black & White 2 (Jonty Barnes)
Civilization IV (Barry Caudill & Sid Meier)
The Movies (Peter Molyneux)
Silent Hunter III (Sébastien Delen)

Best Sound Design
Call of Duty 2 (Mark Ganus)
God of War (Jonathan Hawkins, Jason McDonald, David Murrant & Brad Aldredge)
Guitar Hero (Kasson Crooker, Izzy Maxwell, Ross Popoff & Eric Brosius)
Peter Jackson's King Kong (Yoan Fanise, Olivier Ranquet, Sam Hofstedt & Reed Ruddy)
Resident Evil 4 (Yoshihiko Wada & Yoshito Kato)

Best Music
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Koichi Sugiyama)
God of War (Gerald K. Marino, Michael Reagan, Ron Fish, Winifred Phillips, Winnie Waldron & Cris Velasco)
Jade Empire (Jack Wall)
The Movies (Daniel Pemberton)
Shadow of the Colossus (Kow Otani)

Best Handheld Game
Burnout Legends (Claude Verstraeten)
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Leslie Benzies)
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (Hiroyuki Kubota)
Nintendogs (Kiyoshi Mizuki)

Best Fighting Game
Fight Night Round 2 (Rondee Price & Keith J. Morton)
Soul Calibur III (Jin Okubo, Shinobu Nimura & Taisuke Aihara)
Tekken 5 (Masahiro Kimoto & Katsuhiro Harada)

Best Art Direction
God of War (Terry Smith & Steve Caterson)
Jade Empire (Matthew M. Goldman)
Peter Jackson's King Kong (Florent Sacré)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Olivier Leonardi)
Shadow of the Colossus (Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita & Kazuhiro Numata)

Best Animation
God of War (Cory Barlog, Kwon Min, Paul Lee & Mehdi Yssef)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Wade Konowalchuk, Yannick Bergeron, Steeve Oullet & Faoud Jeniani)
Psychonauts (Sandra B. Christensen, Eric P. Ingerson & David Russell)
Rise of the Kasai (Erik Medina, David Oelkers, Bang Won Lee & Floyd Bishop Jr.)
Shadow of the Colossus (Atsuko Fukuyama, Masanobu Tanaka, Daisuke Uchikawa & Rory Little)

Best Story/Writing
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (Mike Neumann)
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre)
God of War (Marianne Krawczyk, Alexander Stein, David Jaffe & Keith Fay)
Peter Jackson's King Kong (Jacques Exertier)
Psychonauts (Tim Schafer & Erik Wolpaw)

Best Voice-Over Performance
John Cleese - Jade Empire for voicing Sir Roderick
Laurence Fishburne - True Crime: New York City for voicing Isaiah Reed
Richard Horvitz - Psychonauts for voicing Razputin "Raz" Aquato
Kris Kristofferson - Gun for voicing Ned White
Christopher Walken - True Crime: New York City for voicing Gabriel Whitting
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2006 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Gavin Carter & Craig Lafferty)
Gears of War (Erika Carter & Rod Fergusson)
Guitar Hero II (Elena Siegman & Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto & Satoru Iwata)
Wii Sports (Katsuya Eguchi & Shigeru Miyamoto)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Gears of War (Michael V. Capps)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Eiji Aonuma)
Metroid Prime Hunters (Masamichi Abe)
Okami (Hideki Kamiya)
Saints Row (Michael Kulas)

Best Game Design
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Ken Rolston)
Gears of War (Cliff Bleszinski)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Yoshiyuki Oyama & Atsushi Miyagi)
New Super Mario Bros. (Masanao Arimoto)
Wii Sports (Junji Morii)

Best Family Game
Guitar Hero II (Daniel Sussman)
LocoRoco (Tsutomu Kōno)
Nintendo Brain Age (Kouichi Kawamoto)
Viva Pinata (Chris Sutherland & Steven Brand)
Wii Sports (Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)

Best Sport/Racing Game
Cars: The Video Game (Aaron Cammarata)
FIFA 07 (Joe Booth)
MLB '06: The Show (Chris Gill)
NBA 2K7 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
Wii Sports (Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)

Best Technical Innovation
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Guy Carver & Craig Winston)
Gears of War (Ray Davis)
LocoRoco (Hiroyi Matsugami & Gregg Tavares)
Nintendo Brain Age (Jun Ito, Shinji Kitahara & Yoshinori Katsuki)
Wii Sports (Tsutomu Kaneshige)

Best Multiplayer
Company of Heroes
Gears of War
Guitar Hero II
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Wii Sports

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Company of Heroes (John Johnson)
Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Middle-Earth II (Chris Corry)
Medieval II: Total War (Robert T. Smith)
Star Wars: Empire at War (Theodore A. Morris & Chrales J. Kroegel Jr.)
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania (Linda Currie)

Best Sound Design
Call of Duty 3 (Jerry Berlongieri, Chris Cowell, Scott Purvis & Brian Tuey)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Mark Lampert)
Guitar Hero II (Izzy Maxwell, Jeff Allen, Devon Newsom & Sachi Sato)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Takahiro Watanabe, Yohei Miyagawa, Atsushi Masaki & Mitsuhiro Kida)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Jeff Wesevich, Frederic Devanlay, Darren Mitchell & Jason Drust)

Best Music
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Jeremy Soule)
Final Fantasy XII (Hitoshi Sakimoto)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta & Koji Kondo)
LocoRoco (Nobuyuki Shimizu & Kemmei Adachi)
Wii Sports (Kazumi Totaka)

Best Handheld Game
LocoRoco (Tsutomu Kouno)
New Super Mario Bros. (Shigeyuki Asuke)
Nintendo Brain Age (Kouichi Kawamoto)

Best Fighting Game
Fight Night Round 3 (Jennifer Gadrinab & Keith J. Morton)
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Ed Boon)
Tekken: Dark Resurrection (Katsuhiro Harada)

Best Art Direction
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Matthew Carofano)
Final Fantasy XII (Akihiko Yoshida, Hideo Minaba & Isamu Kamikokuryo)
Gears of War (Jeremiah O'Flaherty)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Satoru Takizawa)
Okami (Naoki Katakai)

Best Animation
Call of Duty 3 (Dom Drozdz, Eric Campanella, Jamie Egerton & Adam Rosas)
Final Fantasy XII (Kohichiro Shiratori & Hirotaka Sawada)
Gears of War (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog & Jay Hosfelt)
Kingdom Hearts II (Kohichiro Shiratori & Yoshihiro Kitano)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Marumi Nakajo, Yuko Yoshimura, Kimihiro Ozaki & Takeshi Yamaguchi)

Best Story/Writing
24: The Game (Duppy Demetrius & Chris Sorrell)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bruce Nesmith & Ken Rolston)
Final Fantasy XII (Daisuke Watanabe, Miwa Shoda & Yasumi Matsuno)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Aya Kyogoku & Takayuki Ikkaku)
Saints Row (Steve Jaros)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Sean Bean - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for voicing Martin Septim
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow for voicing Jack Sparrow
Christopher Lee - Kingdom Hearts II for voicing DiZ/Ansem the Wise
Patrick Stewart - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for voicing Uriel Septim VII
Catherine Taber - Final Fantasy XII for voicing Penelo
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2007 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)
Due to lack of comissions, the "Best Fighting Game" category was not held this year

Game of the Year
BioShock (Jonathan Chey)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mark Rubin)
The Orange Box (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
Rock Band (Michael Verrette, Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom & Daniel Sussman)
Super Mario Galaxy (Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka & Takao Shimizu)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin's Creed (Patrice Désilets)
BioShock (Ken Levine)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Jason West)
Halo 3 (Harold Ryan)
Super Mario Galaxy (Yoshiaki Koizumi)

Best Game Design
BioShock (Paul Hellquist)
Mass Effect (Preston Watamaniuk)
The Orange Box: Portal (Kim Swift)
Rock Band (Rob Kay)
Super Mario Galaxy (Koichi Hayashida)

Best Family Game
Drawn to Life (Jeremiah Slaczka)
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Stephen Withers)
Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (Robert Buchanan)
Rock Band (Greg LoPiccolo)
WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Goro Abe & Taku Sugioka)

Best Sport/Racing Game
Colin McRae: DiRT (Clive Moody & Alex Grimbley)
FIFA 08 (Kazuya Makita & Joe Booth)
NBA 2K8 (Rob Jones)
NHL 08 (David Littman)
skate. (Scott Henshaw)

Best Technical Innovation
Assassin's Creed (Mathieu Mazerolle)
BioShock (Rowan Wyborn & Christopher Kline)
The Orange Box (Garrett Rickey, Jeep Barnett & David Kircher)
Rock Band (Eran Egozy, James Fleming, John Eskew & Dan Schmidt)
Super Mario Galaxy (Naoki Koga & Takeshi Hayakawa)

Best Multiplayer
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Rock Band

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Natsuki Isaki)
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Chris Corry)
Forza Motorsport 2 (Garrett Young)
Supreme Commander (Chris Taylor)
World in Conflict (Petter Sydow)

Best Sound Design
BioShock (Emily Ridgway)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mark Ganus, John Paul Fasal, Stephen Miller & Linda Rosemeier)
Halo 3 (Jay Weinland & C Paul Johnson)
Mass Effect (Steven Sim, Matthew Besler, Vance Dylan & Jeremie Voillot)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (Bryan O. Watkins, Chris Alba, Tony Roza & Alder Hampel)

Best Music [TIE]
BioShock (Garry Schyman)
Heavenly Sword (Nitin Sawhney)
Lair (John Debney)
Super Mario Galaxy (Mahito Yokota & Koji Kondo)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Greg Edmonson)

Best Handheld Game
Drawn to Life (Jeremiah Slaczka)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Daiki Iwamoto)
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (Carl Grande)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed (Raphaël Lacoste)
BioShock (Scott Sinclair)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Richard Kriegler)
God of War II (Stig Asmussen)
The Orange Box: Team Fortress 2 (John Cook & Robin Walker)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed (Sylvain Bernard, Alex Drouin, Mathieu Latulippe & Steeve Oullet)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mark Grigsby, Paul Messerly & Eric Pierce)
The Orange Box: Team Fortress 2 (James Cunliffe, Keith Lango, Bay Raitt & Matt Russell)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (David Hancock & John Lally)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Josh Scherr, Jeremy Yates, Eric Baldwin & Troy Slough)

Best Story/Writing
BioShock (Ken Levine)
Heavenly Sword (Rhianna Pratchett, Tameem Antoniades & Andy Serkis)
Mass Effect (Drew Karpyshyn)
The Simpsons Game (Matt Selman, Tim Long & Matt Warburton)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Amy Hennig, Neil Druckmann & Josh Scherr)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Dan Castellaneta - The Simpsons Game for voicing Homer Simpson and others
Jennifer Hale - Mass Effect for voicing Commander Shepard
David Kaye - Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction for voicing Clank
Andy Serkis - Heavenly Sword for voicing King Bohan
Anna Torv - Heavenly Sword for voicing Nariko
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2008 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Fallout 3 (Gavin Carter & Criag Lafferty)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Leslie Benzies)
LittleBigPlanet (Claire Boissiere, Michelle Ducker & Martin Lynagh)
Spore (Guillaume Pierre, Matthew J. Powers & Kip Katsarelis)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Kensuke Tanabe, Keisuke Terasaki & Akiya Sakamoto)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Gears of War 2 (Michael V. Capps)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Andrew Semple)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hideo Kojima)
Mirror's Edge (Senta Jakobsen)
Prince of Persia (Jean-Christophe Guyot)

Best Game Design
Fable II (Peter Molyneux)
Fallout 3 (Emil Pagliarulo)
LittleBigPlanet (Mark Healey & David Smith)
Spore (Will Wright, Alex Hutchinson & Jenna Chalmers)
World of Goo (Kyle Gabler)

Best Family Game
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Hisashi Nogami & Isao Moro)
Boom Blox (Jason Chayes & Steven Spielberg)
LittleBigPlanet (Mark Healey)
Rock Band 2 (Josh Randall & Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom)
Wii Fit (Hiroshi Matsunaga)

Best Sport/Racing Game
Burnout Paradise (Alex Ward)
FIFA 09 (David Rutter)
Mario Kart Wii (Yasuyuki Oyagi)
Mario Super Sluggers (Hideki Tomida)
Wii Fit (Hiorshi Matsunaga)

Best Technical Innovation
Fallout 3 (Guy Carter & Steven Meister)
LittleBigPlanet (Alex Evans & David Smith)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Yuji Korekado)
Spore (Andrew Willmott)
Wii Fit (Katsuhiro Nishimura)

Best Multiplayer
Call of Duty: World at War
Gears of War 2
Left 4 Dead
Mario Kart Wii
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin (Daisuke Nakajima & Masaki Tawara)
Civilization Revolution (Barry Caudill)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Jill Eckhart)
Spore (Lucy Bradshaw)
Tom Clancy's EndWar (Michael de Plater)

Best Sound Design
Dead Space (David Feise, Andrew Lackey & David Swenson)
Fallout 3 (Mark Lampert)
LittleBigPlanet (Kenneth C M Young)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Sōtarō Tojima, Ryoji Makimura, Hiroyuki Nakayama & Masashi Watanabe)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Darragh O'Farrell, Brian Tibbetts, Tom Bible & Erik Foreman)

Best Music
Fable II (Russell Shaw & Danny Elfman)
Fallout 3 (Inon Zur)
LittleBigPlanet (Kenneth C M Young, Mat Clark & Daniel Pemberton)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Harry Gregson-Williams, Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori & Kazuma Jinnouchi)
Spore (Brian Eno & Cliff Martinez)

Best Handheld Game
Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin (Daisuke Nakajima & Masaki Tawara)
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Ru Weerasuriya)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Tatsuya Shinkai)

Best Fighting Game
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Ed Boon)
Soul Calibur IV (Katsutoshi Sasaki, Katsuhiro Harada & Daishi Odashima)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Masahiro Sakurai)

Best Art Direction
Braid (David Hellman)
Fallout 3 (Istvan Pely)
Gears of War 2 (Christopher Perna)
LittleBigPlanet (Kareem Ettouney)
Prince of Persia (Mickail Labat)

Best Animation
Castle Crashers (Dan Paladin)
Gears of War 2 (Scott Dossett, Aaron Herzog, Alexander Whitney & Jay Hosfelt)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Hiromi Sato, Masaaki Kawata, Tetsuya Wakao & Teppei Takehana)
Prince of Persia (Dennis Collantes, Daniel Desjardins, David Wilkinson & Marc De Flores)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Noah Bordner, Kento Kojima, Patrick Przybyla & Tristan Sacramento)

Best Story/Writing
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Mike Neumann)
Fallout 3 (Emil Pagliarulo)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Dan Houser & Rupert Humphries)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Noriko Ikeura & Kazuya Kuranari)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (W. Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford & Cameron Suey)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Nathalie Cox - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for voicing Juno Eclipse
Stephen Fry - LittleBigPlanet for voicing The Narrator
David Hayter - Super Smash Bros. Brawl for voicing Solid Snake
Michael Hollick - Grand Theft Auto IV for voicing Niko Bellic
Liam Neeson - Fallout 3 for voicing James
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2009 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Assassin's Creed II (Sébastien Puel & Vincent Pontbriand)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Daniel Bailie & Nathan Burlow)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Mark Rubin)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin's Creed II (Patrice Désilets)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Sefton Hill)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Jason West)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Erik Johnson)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Bruce Straley & Amy Hennig)

Best Game Design
Assassin's Creed II (Benoît Lambert & Patrick Plourde)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Simon Hargrave, Ian Ball & Miles Macklin)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Steve Fukuda, Todd Alderman & Mackey McCandlish)
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Shunsuke Kobayashi, Jun Iawsaki, Daisuke Goto & Yasuhiro Otsuka)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Richard Lemarchand & Neil Druckmann)

Best Family/Casual Game [TIE]
The Beatles: Rock Band (Josh Randall)
Flower (Jenova Chen)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Shigeyuki Asuke)
Plants vs. Zombies (Sukhbir Sidhu)
Wii Sports Resort (Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 10 (Jeremy Wellard & Andrew Wilson)
Football Manager 2010 (Miles Jacobson)
Forza Motorsport 3 (Dan Greenawalt)
NBA 2K10 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
Wii Sports Resort (Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)

Best Technical Innovation
FarmVille (Devon Kim)
inFAMOUS (Chris Bentzel & Sean Smith)
Plants vs. Zombies (Tod Semple)
Scribblenauts (Marius Fahlbusch, Zachary Brown & David Devaty)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Pål-Kristian Engstad, Travis McIntosh & Dan Liebgold)

Best Multiplayer
The Beatles: Rock Band 
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Left 4 Dead 2
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Brutal Legend (Tim Schafer)
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (Masayuki Horikawa & Masaki Tawara)
Halo Wars (Chris Rippy)
Plants vs. Zombies (Sukhbir Sidhu)
The Sims 3 (Shannon Copur)

Best Sound Design
Assassin's Creed II (Mathieu Jeanson, James Wearing, Hayden Whiting & Justin Phillips)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Nick Arundel, Lee Banyard & Andrew Riley)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Mark Ganus, John Paul Fasal, Chrissy Arya & Stephen Miller)
Halo Wars (Kevin M. McMullan & J.D. Smith)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Bruce Swanson, Mark Jasper, Lydian Tone & Christopher Pinkston)

Best Music
Assassin's Creed II (Jesper Kyd)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Nick Arundel & Ron Fish)
Flower (Vincent Diamante)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (James Hannigan)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Greg Edmonson)

Best Handheld Game
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Leslie Benzies & Gordon Hall)
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Daiki Iwamoto)
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Hiroyuki Kubota)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Tatsuya Shinkai)
Scribblenauts (Jeremiah Slaczka)

Best Fighting Game
Punch-Out!! (Jason Carr & Mike Inglehart)
Street Fighter IV (Takashi Tsukamoto)
Tekken 6 (Yiuchi Yonemori)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed II (Mohamed Gambouz)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (David Hego)
Brutal Legend (Scott Campbell & Lee Petty)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Richard Kriegler)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Erick Pangilinan & Robh Ruppel)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed II (Alex Drouin, Dave Massicotte, Chi Chun Ng & Gaëlle Robert)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Zafer Coban, Max Fanning, Niamh Tierney & Adam Vincent)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Mark Grigsby, Paul Messerly & Eric Pierce)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (John Meehan, David Weinstein, Travis Parks & Justin Falgout)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Josh Scherr, Jeremy Yates, Michael Yosh & Troy Slough)

Best Story/Writing
Assassin's Creed II (Corey May, Joshua Rubin & Jeffrey Yohalem)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Paul Dini)
Brutal Legend (Tim Schafer)
Dragon Age: Origins (David Gaider)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Amy Hennig, Neil Druckmann & Josh Scherr)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Kristen Bell - Assassin's Creed II for voicing Lucy Stillman
Claudia Black - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for voicing Chloe Frazer
Jack Black - Brutal Legend for voicing Eddie Diggs
Mark Hamill - Batman: Arkham Asylum for voicing The Joker
Nolan North - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for voicing Nathan Drake
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2010 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Vincent Pontbriand)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Charles Connoy, Pat Dwyer & Sam Nouriani)
Heavy Rain (Charles Coutier)
Mass Effect 2 (Casey Hudson, Jesse Houston & Nathan Plewes)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Yoshiaki Koizumi & Takashi Tezuka)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Patrick Plourde)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (David Anthony)
Halo: Reach (Marcus Lehto)
Heavy Rain (David Cage)
Red Dead Redemption (Adam Fowler & Ted Carson)

Best Game Design
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Steven Masters)
Epic Mickey (Robert Chase Jones)
Heavy Rain (Raoul Barbet & Gabriel Esteves)
Red Dead Redemption (Christian Cantamessa)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Kenta Motokura)

Best Family/Casual Game
Dance Central (Kasson Crooker)
Epic Mickey (Warren Spector)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Kentarou Sei)
Rock Band 3 (Daniel Sussman & Josh Randall)
Toy Story 3: The Video Game (Garrett Young & Randy Chua)

Best Sport/Racing Game
F1 2010 (Ian Flatt & Paul Jeal)
FIFA 11 (David Rutter & Andrew Wilson)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Alex Ward, Craig Sullivan & Fiona Sperry)
NHL 11 (Sean Ramjagsingh)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (Shinji Enomoto)

Best Technical Innovation
Call of Duty: Black Ops (David King & Trevor Walker)
Dance Central (Marc Flury)
Heavy Rain (Ronan Marchalot)
Red Dead Redemption (Ted Carson)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Takeshi Hayakawa)

Best Multiplayer
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Halo: Reach
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Civilization V (Sid Meier)
Fallout: New Vegas (Josh Sawyer)
Napoleon: Total War (Mike Simpson)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Frank Pearce Jr. & Chris Metzen)
Supreme Commander 2 (Mike Swanson)

Best Sound Design
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Mathieu Jeanson, Hugo Bastien, Hayden Whiting & Justin Phillips)
BioShock 2 (George Spanos & Jack Scalici)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Brian Tuey, Chris Cowell & Stephen McCaul)
Halo: Reach (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell & Jay Weinland)
Heavy Rain (Xavier Despas, Chris Babelian, Mathieu Muller & Mathieu Fiorentini)

Best Music
Alan Wake (Petri Alanko)
Heavy Rain (Normand Corbeil) 
Mass Effect 2 (Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Jimmy Hinson & David Kates)
Red Dead Redemption (Bill Elm & Woody Jackson)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu & Koji Kondo)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Akihiro Hino & Jin Fujisawa)
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Dana Jan)
Infinity Blade (Donald Mustard)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Hideo Kojima)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Usuke Kumagai & Jun Suzuki)

Best Fighting Game
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Toshimichi Mori & Yūki Katō)
Super Street Fighter IV (Taisaku Okada)
UFC 2010 Undisputed (Hiromi Furata)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Mohamed Gambouz)
Epic Mickey (Mark Stefanowicz)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Tetsuya Notoya, Rieko Kawahara & Yumiko Sano)
Red Dead Redemption (Joshua Bass, Daren Bader & Nikola Trifunovic)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Kazunori Hashimoto)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Marc-André Clermont, François Lévesque, Kama Dunsmore & Chi Chun Ng)
God of War III (Bruno Velazquez, Michael Biancalana, Jason Hall & Medhi Yssef)
Heavy Rain (Clément Castanier)
Mass Effect 2 (Parrish Ley, Bradley Kinley, Cristian Enciso & Kiaran Ritchie)
Red Dead Redemption (Sangsoon Park, DongJun Kim, Eliot Tokoroyama & Sean Letts)

Best Story/Writing
Alan Wake (Sam Lake, Mikko Rautalahti & Petri Järvilehto)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Craig Houston, David Anthony & Corky Lehmkuhl)
Heavy Rain (David Cage)
Mass Effect 2 (Mac Walters & Drew Karpyshyn)
Red Dead Redemption (Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth & Christian Cantamessa)

Best Voice-Over Performance
John Cleese - Fable III for voicing Jasper
Nathan Fillion - Halo: Reach for voicing Edward Buck
Gary Oldman - Call of Duty: Black Ops for voicing Viktor Reznov/Daniel Clarke
Andy Serkis - ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West for voicing Monkey
Rob Wiethoff - Red Dead Redemption for voicing John Marston
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2011 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Batman: Arkham City (Daniel Bailie & Nathan Burlow)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Craig Lafferty & Ashley Cheng)
L.A. Noire (Josh Needleman & Naresh Hirani)
Portal 2 (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Alexandre Amancio)
Batman: Arkham City (Sefton Hill)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Bret Robbins & Glen Schofield)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Hiromasa Fujibayashi)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Amy Hennig & Justin Richmond)

Best Game Design
Batman: Arkham City (Ian Ball & Frank Rooke)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bruce Nesmith)
L.A. Noire (Alex Carlyle)
Portal 2 (Matt T. Wood)
Super Mario 3D Land (Kenta Motokura)

Best Family/Casual Game
Dance Central 2 (Kasson Crooker, Jon Carter & Naoko Takamoto)
Just Dance 3 (Stephan Logier)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
Mario Kart 7 (Kosuke Yabuki)
Rayman Origins (Michel Ancel & Sébastien Morin)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 12 (David Rutter)
Kinect Sports: Season Two (Mark Findlay & Scott Henson)
MLB '11: The Show (Chris Gill, Jody Kelsey & Jason Villa)
NBA 2K12 (Jeffrey J. Thomas)
NHL 12 (David Littman & Sean Ramjagsingh)

Best Technical Innovation
Bastion (Gavin Simon & Andrew F. Wang)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Guy Garver)
L.A. Noire (Franta Frulin)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Toshio Iwasaki & Kazuaki Morita)
Portal 2 (Garrett Rickey & Jeep Barnett)

Best Multiplayer
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Gears of War 3
LittleBigPlanet 2
Portal 2

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (Natsuki Isaki)
Dark Souls (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Jean-François Dugas)
From Dust (Éric Chahi)
Total War: Shogun 2 (Mike Simpson)

Best Sound Design
Batman: Arkham City (Nick Arundel, Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley & Kevin Vail)
Battlefield 3 (Carl Vikman, Bence Pajor, Andreas Almstörm & Magnus Walterstad)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Stephen Miller)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Mark Lampert)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Mark Jasper, Lydian Tone, Chris Pinkston & Ronald Dutch Hill)

Best Music
Batman: Arkham City (Nick Arundel & Ron Fish)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Jeremy Soule)
L.A. Noire (Andrew & Simon Hale)
Portal 2 (Mike Morasky)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Greg Edmonson)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Infinity Blade II (Donald Mustard)
Kirby Mass Attack (Mari Shirakawa)
Mario Kart 7 (Kosuke Yabuki)
Professor Layton and the Last Specter (Usuke Kumagai)
Super Mario 3D Land (Koichi Hayashida)

Best Fighting Game
King of Fighters XIII (Kei Yamamoto)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Hiroyuki Nara & Go Usuma)
Mortal Kombat (Ed Boon)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Raphaël Lacoste)
Batman: Arkham City (David Hego)
Portal 2 (Jeremy Bennett & Randall Lundeen)
Rayman Origins (Céline Tellier)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Erick Pangilinan & Robh Ruppel)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Kama Dunsmore, Daniel Desjardins, Michael Donnell & Vincent Presseau)
Batman: Arkham City (Zafer Coban, Max Fanning, David Houston & Adam Vincent)
L.A. Noire (Jim Jagger, Felipe Busquets, Dermot Bailie & Francesca Howard)
Rayman Origins (Anthony Le Du, Nicolas Athane, Anaïs Dusautois & Eric Verwaerde)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Josh Scherr, Eric Baldwin, Jeremy Yates & Kion Phillips)

Best Story/Writing
Batman: Arkham City (Paul Dini, Paul Crocker & Sefton Hill)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Emil Pagliarulo)
L.A. Noire (Brendan McNamara)
Portal 2 (Erik Wolpaw, Jay Pinkerton & Chet Faliszek)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Amy Hennig)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Stephen Fry - LittleBigPlanet 2 for voicing The Narrator
Mark Hamill - Batman: Arkham City for voicing The Joker
Ellen McLain - Portal 2 for voicing GLaDOS
Nolan North - Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception for voicing Nathan Drake
Elias Toufexis - Deus Ex: Human Revolution for voicing Adam Jensen
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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)

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)

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)

Best Family/Casual Game
Dance Central 3 (Matt Boch, Jon Carter & Naoko Takamoto)
Just Dance 4 (Alkis Argyriadis)
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super-Heroes (Jon Burton)
New Super Mario Bros. U (Masataka Takemoto) 
Nintendo Land (Takayuki Shimamura & Yoshikazu Yamashita)

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)

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)

Best Multiplayer
Assassin's Creed III
Borderlands 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Journey
Need for Speed: Most Wanted

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 (Gareth DeAngelis, Clint McCaul & Amber Hardin)

Best Sound 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) 

Best Music
Assassin's Creed III (Lorne Balfe)
Far Cry 3 (Brian Tyler)
Journey (Austin Wintory)
Mass Effect 3 (Sascha Dikicyan, Sam Hulick, Christopher Lennertz, Clint Mansell & Cris Velasco)
The Unfinished Swan (Joel Corelitz)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Gravity Rush (Keiichiro Toyama)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Masahiro Sakurai)
Resident Evil: Revelations (Koshi Nakanishi)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (John Garvin)
The Walking Dead (Sean Vanaman, Jake Rodkin, Dennis Lenart, Eric Parsons, Nick Herman & Sean Ainsworth)

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)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed III (The Chinh Ngo)
Dishonored (Sébastien Mitton)
Far Cry 3 (Jean-Alexis Doyon)
Journey (Matt Nava & Aaron Jessie)
The Unfinished Swan (Hokyo Lim)

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 Chang, DongJun Kim & Nathan Webb)

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)

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
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2013 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Martin Schelling)
Grand Theft Auto V (Imran Sarwar & Leslie Benzies)
The Last of Us (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)
Super Mario 3D World (Yoshiaki Koizumi)
Tearaway (Michelle Ducker)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Jean Guesdon & Ashraf Ismail)
BioShock Infinite (Ken Levine)
Grand Theft Auto V (Andrew Semple)
The Last of Us (Bruce Straley & Neil Druckmann)
Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes, Daniel Chayer & Daniel Neuberger)

Best Game Design
BioShock Infinite (François Roughol, Paul Green & Albert Meranda)
Grand Theft Auto V (Leslie Benzies & Imran Sarwar)
The Last of Us (Jacob Minkoff)
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
Super Mario 3D World (Yuichi Isawa, Eisaku Sato & Futoshi Shirai)

Best Family/Casual Game
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Isao Moro & Aya Kyogoku)
Disney Infinity (John Vignocchi)
Rayman Legends (Michel Ancel)
Super Mario 3D World (Koichi Hayashida & Kenta Motokura)
Tearaway (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)

Best Sport/Racing Game
F1 2013 (Stephen Hood & Paul Jeal)
FIFA 14 (David Rutter & Kazuya Makita)
Forza Motorsport 5 (Dan Greenawalt)
NBA 2K14 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Rob Jones)
NHL 14 (Cameron Boutin & Peter Sobczak)

Best Technical Innovation
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Alexandre Begnoche & Julien Desaulniers)
Grand Theft Auto V (Adam Fowler)
The Last of Us (Travis McIntosh & Jason Gregory)
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
The Stanley Parable (Jesús Higueras)

Best Multiplayer
Battlefield 4
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Super Mario 3D World
World of Tanks

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Civilization V: Brave New World (Dennis Shirk)
Fire Emblem: Awakening (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope)
Surgeon Simulator 2013 (Tom Jackson)
XCOM: Enemy Within (Clint McCaul & Garth DeAngelis)

Best Sound Design
BioShock Infinite (Scott Haraldsen, Patrick Balthrop & Jeffrey Seamster)
Grand Theft Auto V (Jeffrey R. Whitcher, Alistair McGregor, George Williamson & John McCavish)
The Last of Us (Phillip A. Kovats, Shannon Potter, Neil Uchitel & Scott Martin Gershin)
Saints Row IV (Brandon Bray, Aaron Gallant, Kyle Vander Slunt & Roel Sanchez)
Tomb Raider (Jack Grillo, Karl Gallagher & Alex Wilmer)

Best Music
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Brian Tyler)
The Last of Us (Gustavo Santaolalla)
Puppeteer (Patrick Doyle)
Super Mario 3D World (Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi & Koji Kondo)
Tearaway (Kenneth C M Young & Brian D'Oliveira)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Fire Emblem: Awakening (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Hiromasa Shikata)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Bryce Holliday)
Pokémon X & Y (Junichi Masuda)
Tearaway (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)

Best Fighting Game
Divekick (Adam Heart)
Infinity Blade III (Donald Mustard)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Ed Boon)
Killer Instinct (Ken Lobb, Adam Isgreen & Michael Donges)
Tekken Revolution (Yuichi Yonemori)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Raphaël Lacoste)
BioShock Infinite (Scott Sinclair)
The Last of Us (Erick Pangilinan & Nathan Wells)
Ni no Kumi: Wrath of the White Witch (Nobuyuki Yanai)
Tearaway (Kareem Ettouney)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Kama Dunsmore, Guillaume Lefebvre, Daniel Desjardins & Gaëlle Robert)
Beyond: Two Souls (Kenn McDonald, Clément Castanier & Teppei Takehana)
The Last of Us (Shaun Escayg, David Lam, Eric Baldwin & Troy Slough)
Ni no Kumi: Wrath of the White Witch (Kazuyoshi Onoda & Masafumi Yokota)
Tomb Raider (Brandon Fernandez, Jeff Wilcox, Erik Medina & Jake Spence)

Best Story/Writing
Beyond: Two Souls (David Cage)
BioShock Infinite (Ken Levine)
The Last of Us (Neil Druckmann)
The Stanley Parable (Davey Wreden & William Pugh)
Tomb Raider (Rhianna Pratchett & Susan O'Connor)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Troy Baker - The Last of Us for voicing Joel
Willem Dafoe - Beyond: Two Souls for voicing Nathan Dawkins
Ashley Johnson - The Last of Us for voicing Ellie
Steven Ogg - Grand Theft Auto V for voicing Trevor Philips
Ellen Page - Beyond: Two Souls for voicing Jodie Holmes
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2014 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Cameron Lee)
Far Cry 4 (Cedric Decelle)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Nathan Edson & Zeb Wedell)
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (Shinya Saito & Masaya Kobayashi)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Alien: Isolation (Alistair Hope)
Bayonetta 2 (Yūsuke Hashimoto)
Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
Far Cry 4 (Alex Hutchinson & Patrik Méthé)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matthew T. Allen)

Best Game Design
Destiny (James McQuillan, Alex Pfeiffer, Jason Jones & Luke Smith)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Sebastian Hanlon & Daniel Kading)
Far Cry 4 (Jean-Claude Rosay & Nicolas Duclos)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Derek Sakamoto)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Michael de Plater)

Best Family/Casual Game
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (John Vignocchi & Mathew Solie)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Ryan Harris & Vince Joly)
Fantasia: Music Evolved (Daniel Sussman)
LittleBigPlanet 3 (Michelle Leonard, Simon Livesey & John O'Brien)
Mario Kart 8 (Kosuke Yabuki)

Best Sport/Racing Game
The Crew (Julian Gerighty)
FIFA 15 (Simon Keith Humber)
Mario Kart 8 (Kosuke Yabuki)
NBA 2K15 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Rob Jones)
Trials Fusion (Antti Ilvessuo)

Best Technical Innovation
Destiny (Chris Butcher & Ben Wallace)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Mark Kockerbeck & Sasha Sydoruk)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matthew Rice)
Monument Valley (Peter Pashley, Manesh Mistry & Van Le)
Titanfall (Richard A. Baker & Earl Hammon Jr.)

Best Multiplayer [TIE]
Destiny
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Mario Kart 8
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
Titanfall

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
The Banner Saga (Lance James)
Civilization: Beyond Earth (Dennis Shirk & Lena Brenk)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Hamilton Chu)
The Sims 4 (Michael Duke, James Rogers & Robert Vernick)
Tropico 5 (Gabriel Dobrev)

Best Sound Design
Alien: Isolation (Mark Ganus, Byron Bullock, James Magee & Sam Cooper)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Jamey Scott, Bo Lahner, Charles Deneen & Travis Prater)
Destiny (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori & Jay Weinland)
Far Cry 4 (Tony Gronick, Eduardo Vaisman, Martin Laplante & Kevin Vail)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Brian Pamintuan, Lucas Carlyle, Morgan Green & Jason Wolford)

Best Music
Alien: Isolation (Christian Henson, Joe Henson & Alexis Smith)
Destiny (Martin O'Donnell, C Paul Johnson, Michael Salvatori & Paul McCartney)
Far Cry 4 (Cliff Martinez)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Garry Schyman & Nathan Grigg) 
Transistor (Darren Korb)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Bravely Default (Kensuke Nakahara)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Hamilton Chu)
Shovel Knight (Sean Velasco)
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Masahiro Sakurai)
Tomodachi Life (Noriyuki Sato, Ryutaro Takahashi & Eisaku Nakae)

Best Fighting Game
Killer Instinct: Season Two (Ken Lobb, Adam Isgreen & Michael Donges)
Nidhogg (Mark Essen)
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (Masahiro Sakurai)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed Unity (Mohamed Gambouz)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Matthew M. Goldman)
Far Cry 4 (Jean-Alexis Doyon)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Philip Straub)
Monument Valley (Ken Wong & David Fernández Huerta)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed Unity (Mike Mennillo, Chi Chun Ng, Guillaume Lefebvre & Eduardo Simioni)
inFAMOUS Second Son (Jason Stansell, Erik Medina, Max Chapman & William Harper)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Camille Chu, John Piel, John Van Deusen & Patrick Watje)
Titanfall (Mark Grigsby & Paul Messerly)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Luca Erbetta, Valérie Geoffroy, Nicolas Léger & Stéphane Rose)

Best Story/Writing
Dragon Age: Inquisition (David Gaider)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Christian Cantamessa)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Eric Fenstermaker)
The Walking Dead: Season Two (Nick Breckon, Andrew Grant, Pierre Shorette, JT Petty & Eric Stirpe)
The Wolf Among Us (Pierre Shorette, Dave Grossman, Adam Hines, Dan Martin & Nicole Martinez)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Troy Baker - Far Cry 4 for voicing Pagan Min
Adam Harrington - The Wolf Among Us for voicing Bigby Wolf
Melissa Hutchinson - The Walking Dead: Season Two for voicing Clementine
Trey Parker - South Park: The Stick of Truth for voicing various characters
Kevin Spacey - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for voicing Jonathan Irons
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2015 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Bloodborne (Kentaro Motomura, Masaaki Yamaguchi & Teruyuki Toriyama)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima & Kenichiro Imaizumi)
Splatoon (Hisashi Nogami)
Super Mario Maker (Takeshi Tezuka & Hiroyuki Kimura)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Krzywonosiuk & Jędrzej Mróz)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Batman: Arkham Knight (Sefton Hill)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Thomas Mahler)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes, Brian Horton & Daniel Neuberger)
Star Wars: Battlefront (Robert Wasser)

Best Game Design
Bloodborne (Kazuhiro Hamatani)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
Rocket League (Corey Davis)
Splatoon (Seita Inoue & Keisuke Nishimori)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, Adam Wrotek & Lukasz Maj)

Best Family/Casual Game
Disney Infinity 3.0 (John Vignocchi & Mathew Solie)
LEGO Dimensions (Jon Burton & James McLoughlin)
Splatoon (Yusuke Amano & Tsubasa Sakaguchi)
Super Mario Maker (Yosuke Oshino & Yoshikazu Yamashita)
Yoshi's Woolly World (Atsushi Kono)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 16 (Scott Murray & Greg Palstra)
Forza Motorsport 6 (William Giese & Dan Greenawalt)
NBA 2K16 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
Need for Speed (Craig Sullivan)
Rocket League (Thomas Silloway)

Best Technical Innovation
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Julien Fryer, Sam Hocevar, Stéphane Hubart & Alexis Holstein)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Daizaburo Nakamura & Makoto Sonoyama)
Splatoon (Shintaro Sato)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Tomsiński, Michał Słapa, Marcin Gollent & Łukasz Mrozowski-Zięba)

Best Multiplayer
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Destiny: The Taken King
Halo 5: Guardians
Rocket League
Splatoon

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Cities: Skylines (Mariina Hallikainen)
Fallout Shelter (Craig Lafferty)
Heroes of the Storm (Dustin Browder & Alan Dabiri)
Kerbal Space Program (Ezequiel Ayarza & Adrian Goya)
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (Dustin Browder)

Best Sound Design
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Michel Fillion, Lydia Andrew, Simon Paris & Carolyn Vézina)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Nick Arundel, Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley & Bryan O. Watkins)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Makoto Yamakawa & Hiroyuki Nakayama)
Star Wars: Battlefront (Ben Minto, Philip Eriksson, Gustav Rathsman & Martin Wöhrer)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Malinowski, Hanna Obradovic, Paweł Daudzward & Krzysztof Lipka)

Best Music
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Austin Wintory)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Nick Arundel & David Buckley)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett & Daniel James)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Gareth Coker)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybyłowicz & Mikołaj Stroiński)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Fallout Shelter (Todd Howard & Craig Lafferty)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Lara Croft Go (Daniel Lutz)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Kaname Fujioka)
Pac-Man 256 (Andrew Sum & Matthew Hall)

Best Fighting Game
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (Yohei Shimbori & Tom Lee)
Mortal Kombat (Ed Boon)
Rising Thunder (Tom & Tony Cannon)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Thierry Dansereau)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yoji Shinkawa)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Johannes Figlhuber)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marian Chomiak)
Yoshi's Woolly World (Ayano Otsuka)

Best Animation
Batman: Arkham Knight (Zafer Coban, Max Fanning, David Houston & Adam Vincent)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yusuke Nishida, Masaaki Kawata, Masakazu Kato & Keiichiro Emura)
Ori and the Blind Forest (James Nicholas Benson)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Brandon Fernandez, Jeff Wilcox, Tracy Jasperson & Benjmain Stanton)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Jamie Bury-Zawada, Daria Bury-Zawada, Michał Czerniec & Soheyl Mohammad)

Best Story/Writing
Batman: Arkham Knight (Martin Lancaster, Sefton Hill & Ian Ball)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Christian Divine & Jean-Luc Cano)
Tales from the Borderlands (Pierre Shorette, Jeremy Breslau, Chuck Jordan, Eric Stirpe, Brian Freyermuth, Anthony Burch & Zack Keller)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Blacha)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Ashly Burch - Life is Strange for voicing Chloe Price
Mark Hamill - Batman: Arkham Knight for voicing The Joker
Camilla Luddington - Rise of the Tomb Raider for voicing Lara Croft
Viva Seifert - Her Story for voicing Hannah Smith
Patrick Warburton - Tales from the Borderlands for voicing Hugo Vasquez
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2016 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Inside (Mads Wibroe & Forest Swartout Large)
The Last Guardian (Kazunobu Sato & Fumito Ueda)
Overwatch (Carlos Guerrero & Lee Sparks)
Pokémon Go (Tatsuo Nomura & Steve Wang)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Firewatch (Sean Vanaman & Olly Moss)
The Last Guardian (Fumito Ueda)
Overwatch (Jeffrey Kaplan & Chris Metzen)
Titanfall 2 (Steve Fukuda)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Bruce Straley & Neil Druckmann)

Best Game Design
Dishonored 2 (Christophe Carrier)
Inside (Jeppe Carlsen)
The Last Guardian (Masanobu Tanaka, Suchol Lee & Satoru Yanabe)
Overwatch (Jeremy Craig, Michael Elliott & Scott Mercer)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Kurt Margenau, Emilia Schatz & Anthony Newman)

Best Family/Casual Game
Dragon Quest Builders (Kazuya Niinou)
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Jamie Eden, Peter Gomer & Rob Hewson)
Overcooked (Kevin Carthew)
Pokémon Go (Tatsuo Nomura)
Ratchet and Clank (Mike Allgeier)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 17 (Scott Murray & Greg Palstra)
Forza Horizon 3 (Ralph Fulton)
MLB '16: The Show (Chris Gill, Jody Kelsey & Jason Villa)
NBA 2K17 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (Manorito Hosoda)

Best Technical Innovation
Deus Ex: Makind Devided (David Gallardo, Daniel Letrende & Sébastien Michel)
No Man's Sky (Charles Tongora, Daniel Armesto Gutiérrez, Innes McKendrick & Stewart Lynch)
Overwatch (Mike Elliott)
Pokémon Go (Robert Giusti & Niniane Wang)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Christian Gyrling, Vincent Marxen, Travis McIntosh & Jason Gregory)

Best Multiplayer
Battlefield 1
Forza Horizon 3
Gears of War 4
Overwatch
Titanfall 2

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
The Banner Saga 2 (Lance James)
Civilization VI (Sid Meier & Dennis Shirk)
Fire Emblem Fates (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
Stardew Valley (Eric Barone)
XCOM 2 (Jacob Solomon)

Best Sound Design
Battlefield 1 (Bence Pajor, Andreas Almström, Steve Bigras & Mari Saastamoinen-Minto)
The Last Guardian (Hirokazu Matsushita, Keiichi Kitahara & Tsubasa Ito)
Overwatch (Russell Brower, Paul Lackey, Chris De La Pena & Scott Lawlor)
Titanfall 2 (Erik Kraber, Rick Hernandez, Steve Johnson & Tyler Parsons)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Phillip A. Kovats, Shannon Potter, Neil Uchitel & Robert Krekel)

Best Music
Abzû (Austin Wintory)
Doom (Mick Gordon)
Inside (Martin Stig Andersen & Søs Gunver Ryberg)
The Last Guardian (Takeshi Furukawa)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Henry Jackman)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Dragon Quest Builders (Kazuya Niinou)
Fire Emblem Fates (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
Kirby: Planet Robobot (Shinya Kumazaki)
Pokémon Go (Tatsuya Nomura)
Pokémon Sun/Moon (Shigeru Ohmori)

Best Fighting Game
The King of Fighters XIV (Yasuyuki Oda)
Pokkén Tournament (Haruki Suraki)
Street Fighter V (Takayuki Nakayama)

Best Art Direction
Abzû (Matt Nava)
Firewatch (Jane Ng & Olly Moss)
Inside (Jeremy C. Peterman & Marek Bogdan)
The Last Guardian (Shunpei Suzuki)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Erick Pangilinan & Robh Ruppel)

Best Animation
Dishonored 2 (Damien Pougheon)
The Last Guardian (Masanobu Tanaka, Tan Se Ri, Keita Usami & Naofumi Ito)
Overwatch (Ryan Denniston, Michael Biancalana, David Gibson & Adam York)
Street Fighter V (Hiroyuki Nara, Yuichiro Hiraki & Akihiko Nasu)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Jeremy Yates, Michael Yosh, Eric Baldwin, Shaun Escayg)

Best Story/Writing
Firewatch (Chris Remko, Jake Rodkin, Olly Moss & Sean Vanaman)
Inside (Arnt Jensen)
The Last Guardian (Fumito Ueda, Masami Tanji & Yuta Kimura)
Oxenfree (Adam Hines)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Neil Druckmann & Josh Scherr)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Troy Baker - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for voicing Sam Drake
Nolan North - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for voicing Nathan Drake
Emily Rose - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for voicing Elena Fisher
Rich Sommer - Firewatch for voicing Henry
Cara Theobold - Overwatch for voicing Tracer
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2017 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year [TIE]
Cuphead (Ryan Moldenhauer & Marija Moldenhauer)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Lambert Wolterbeek-Muller)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto & Shinya Takahashi)
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Kim Chang-han)
Super Mario Odyssey (Koichi Hayashida & Yoshiaki Koizumi)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Destiny 2 (Christopher Barrett & Luke Smith)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Mathijs de Jonge)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
Super Mario Odyssey (Kenta Motokura)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jens Matthies)

Best Game Design
Cuphead (Jared Moldenhauer)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Troy Mashburn, David Ford, Lauren Simonis & Floris Kooij)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Kentaro Tominaga, Hiroaki Tamura & Yohei Fujino)
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Brendan Greene)
Super Mario Odyssey (Futoshi Shirai & Shinya Hiratake)

Best Family/Casual Game
Cuphead (Chad & Jared Moldenhauer)
A Hat in Time (Jonas Kaerlev)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Kosuke Yabuki)
Sonic Mania (Chrisitan Whitehead)
Splatoon 2 (Yusuke Amano, Seita Inoue & Shintaro Saro)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 18 (Mathew Prior)
Forza Motorsport 7 (William Giese & Dan Greenawalt)
Gran Turismo Sport (Kazunori Yamauchi)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Kosuke Yabuki)
NBA 2K18 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)

Best Technical Innovation
Horizon Zero Dawn (Michiel van der Leeuw)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Takuhiro Dohta, Kenji Matsutani & Hiroshi Umemiya)
Nier: Automata (Ryo Onishi)
Super Mario Odyssey (Norihiro Aoyagi & Wataru Tanaka)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jim Kjellin)

Best Multiplayer
Call of Duty: WWII
Destiny 2
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Splatoon 2

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Gran Turismo Sport (Kazunori Yamauchi)
Halo Wars 2 (Alistair Hope)
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (Davide Soliani)
Total War: Warhammer II (Ian Roxburgh)
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Jacob Solomon)

Best Sound Design
Destiny 2 (C Paul Johnson, Evan Buehler, David Henry & Jay Weinland)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Hajime Wakai, Yohei Miyagawa, Mitsuhiro Hikino & Ryu Tamura)
Nier: Automata (Misaki Shindo, Yuji Honda & Shuji Kohata)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Wataru Hachisako, Kenji Kojima & Yusuke Kinoshita)
Super Mario Odyssey (Mahito Yokota, Wataru Tanimura & Yuki Tsuji)

Best Music
Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest & Jonathan Williams)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka & Yasuaki Iwata)
Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii & Koji Kondo)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Mick Gordon & Martin Stig Andersen)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (Kazuyoshi Sensui)
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Akihiro Hino)
Ever Oasis (Koichi Ishii)
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Toshiyuki Kusakihara, Kenta Nakanishi & Genki Yokota)
Metroid: Samus Returns (Takehiko Hosokawa)

Best Fighting Game
ARMS (Kenta Saro, Masaaki Ishikawa & Shintaro Jikumaru)
Injustice 2 (Ed Boon)
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (Norio Hirose)
Nidhogg 2 (Mark Essen)
Tekken 7 (Katushiro Harada, Yuichi Yonemori & Kouhei Ikeda)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed Origins (Raphaël Lacoste)
Cuphead (Marija Moldenhauer)
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Dan Attwell)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Satoru Takizawa)
Persona 5 (Masayoshi Suto)

Best Animation
Cuphead (Chad Moldenhauer, Hannah Abi-Hanna, Jake Clark & Tina Nawrocki)
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Chris Goodall, Jitaik Lim & Kirill Spiridonov)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Richard Oud, Kevin Quaid, Niek Neervens & Peer Lemmers)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Masato Miyazaki, Yuki Yanagimoto, Keiichi Sato & Kohei Okumura)
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Almudena Soria Sancho, Eric Baldwin, Kion Phillips & Troy Slough)

Best Story/Writing
Horizon Zero Dawn (John Gonzalez & Benjamin McCaw)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Akihito Toda & Naoki Mori)
Night of the Woods (Bethany Hockenberry & Scott Benson)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Ian Dallas)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jens Matthies & Tommy Tordsson Björk)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Laura Bailey - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy for voicing Nadine Ross
Claudia Black - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy for voicing Chloe Frazer
Brian Bloom - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for voicing B.J. Blazkowicz
Ashly Burch - Horizon Zero Dawn for voicing Aloy
Melina Juergens - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice for voicing Senua

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Lone Echo (Ru Weerasuriya & Dana Jan)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Koshi Nakanishi)
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (Alex Schwartz & Liz Pate)
Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Brian Tate)
SUPERHOT VR (Piotr Iwanicki)
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2018 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (André Gosselin)
God of War (Eric Fong, Chad Cox & Sean Llewellyn)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Ara Demirjian)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rob Nelson)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Shinya Saito & Yoshito Higuchi)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Detroit: Become Human (David Cage)
God of War (Cory Barlog)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Ryan Smith, Marcus Smith & Brian Horton)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Andrew Semple, Jennifer Kolbe & Steve Martin)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Daniel Chayer)

Best Game Design
God of War (Derek Daniels)
Marvel's Spider-Man (James Cooper, Mike Daly, Cameron Christian & Mark C. Stuart)
Monster Hunter: World (Teruki Endo & Yūgo Togawa)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Imran Sarwar)
Subnautica (Michael Schouten)

Best Family/Casual Game
Kirby Star Allies (Shinya Kumazaki)
Nintendo Labo (Tsubasa Sakaguchi)
Overcooked 2 (Kevin Carthew & Phil Duncan)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Laurent Melville & Richard Carrillo)
Super Mario Party (Shuichiro Nishiya)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 19 (Mathew Prior & Santiago Jaramillo)
Forza Horizon 4 (Ralph Fulton)
Mario Tennis Aces (Shugo Takahashi & Tomohiro Yamamura)
NBA 2K19 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (Manorito Hosoda)

Best Technical Innovation
Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Takumi Yoshida & Yuki Miyamae)
God of War (Florian Strauss)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Joseph I. Valenzuela)
Nintendo Labo (Keiichiro Yoshida, Naoki Masuda, Akio Terui, Yuki Onozawa & Kosuke Teshima)  
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Phil Hooker)

Best Multiplayer
Battlefield V
Monster Hunter: World
Sea of Thieves
Super Mario Party
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
The Banner Saga 3 (Zeb L. West & Andrew Johnson)
Frostpunk (Michał Drozdowski)
Into the Breach (Justin Ma & Matthew Davis)
Jurassic World Evolution (Michael Brookes)
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Kohei Yamashita & Masaya Kobayashi)

Best Sound Design
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Arnaud Libeyre, Alexandre Fortier, Alexis Meyer & Vili Viitaniemi)
God of War (Michael Niederquell, Todd Piperi, Daniel Birczynski & Alex Belzer)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Phillip A. Kovats, Emile Mika, Robert Burns, Herschell E. Bailey & David Yingling)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Jeffrey R. Whitcher, Alistair McGregor & Lazlow Jones)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rob Bridgett, Karl Gallagher, Juan Pablo Vieyra Rodríguez & Mariane Viaud)

Best Music
God of War (Bear McCreary)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (John Paesano)
Ni no Kumi II: Revenant Kingdom (Joe Hisaishi)
Octopath Traveler (Yasunori Nishiki)
Tetris Effect (Noboru Mutoh)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Detective Pikachu (Naoki Miyashita)
Donut County (Ben Esposito)
Florence (Ken Wong)
Reigns: Game of Thrones (François Alliot)
WarioWare: Gold (Goro Abe & Yoichi Tada)

Best Fighting Game
DragonBall FighterZ (Junya C Motomura)
Soul Calibur VI (Yoshinori Takahashi)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Masahiro Sakurai)

Best Art Direction
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Thierry Dansereau)
God of War (Nate Stephens, John Palamarchuk & Timo Pihlajamäki)
Octopath Traveler (Mika Iizuka)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Aaron Garbut)
Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope)

Best Animation
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Anaïs Dusautois, Anthony Le Du, Sébastien Carrier & Hélène Simard)
God of War (Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto & Mehdi Yssef)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Robert Coddington, Danny Garnett, Elliot Grossman & Brian Wyser)
Moss (Richard Lico)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Jim Jagger & Mark Tennant)

Best Story/Writing
Detroit: Become Human (David Cage & Adam Williams)
Florence (Ken Wong)
God of War (Matthew Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gilbert & Cory Barlog)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Jon Paquette, Benjamin Arfmann & Kelsey Beachum)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth & Rupert Humphries)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Roger Clark - Red Dead Redemption 2 for voicing Arthur Morgan
Valorie Curry - Detroit: Become Human for voicing Kara
Bryan Dechart - Detroit: Become Human for voicing Connor
Christopher Judge - God of War for voicing Kratos
Yuri Lowenthal - Marvel's Spider-Man for voicing Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Nicolas Doucet)
Firewall: Zero Hour (Grady Hunt)
Jurassic World Alive (Arianne Lapierre & Vincent Noiret)
Moss (Richard Lico)
Tetris Effect (Takashi Ishihara)
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2019 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Control (Juha Vainio)
Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima, Kenichiro Imaizumi & James Vance)
The Outer Worlds (Eric DeMilt)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Yuzo Kojima & Takahiro Yamamoto)
Untitled Goose Game (Felix Kramer & Nick Suttner)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Control (Mikael Kasurinen)
Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Mikiharu Ōiwa)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Stig Asmussen)

Best Game Design
Baba is You (Arvi Teikari)
Disco Elysium (Robert Kurvitz)
Outer Wilds (Loan Verneau & Alex Beachum)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Masaru Yamamura & Yuki Fukuda)
Untitled Goose Game (Stuart Gillespie-Cook, Nico Disseldorp & Michael McMaster)

Best Family/Casual Game
Concrete Genie (Dominic Robilliard)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Bryce Holliday)
Ring Fit Adventure (Hiroshi Matsunaga)
Super Mario Maker 2 (Yosuke Oshino)
Yoshi's Crafted World (Masahiro Yamamoto)

Best Sport/Racing Game
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Philippe Turcotte)
FIFA 20 (Mathew Prior)
NBA 2K20 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
NHL 20 (William Ho & Sean Ramjagsingh)
Trials Rising (Antti Ilvessuo)

Best Technical Innovation
Control (Sean Donnelly, David Lee Swenson & Xun "Eric" Zhang)
Death Stranding (Akio Sakamoto)
Metro Exodus (Oles Shishkovtsov, Alexander Maksimchuk & Vlad Gapchych)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Yoshitaka Suzuki)
Untitled Goose Game (Cherie Davidson)

Best Multiplayer
Apex Legends
Borderlands 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Luigi's Mansion 3
Tetris 99

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Lennart Sas)
Anno 1800 (Dirk Riegert)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Toshiyuki Kusakihara & Genki Yokota)
Total War: Three Kingdoms (János Gáspár)
Tropico 6 (Alexander Frey & Stephan Winter)

Best Sound Design
Cadence of Hyrule (Jeff Tangsoc, Joey Godard, Kevin Regamey & Cole Verderber)
Control (Michael Schwendler, Tristan Horton, Benjamin Drumeaux & Felix
Death Stranding (Ludvig Forssell, Mike Niederquell, Kotaro Mori & Hiroyuki Nakayama)
Resident Evil 2 (Kentaro Nakashima, Yusuke Kinoshita, Kenji Kojima & Masahiko Minami)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Kevin Notar, Sam Bird, Oscar Coen & Paxson Helgesen)

Best Music
Cadence of Hyrule (Danny Baranowsky)
Control (Petri Alanko & Martin Stig Andersen)
Death Stranding (Ludvig Forssell)
Kingdom Hearts III (Yoko Shimamura, Takeharu Ishimoto & Tsuyoshi Sekito)
Outer Wilds (Andrew Prahlow)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Daniel Olsén & Jonathan Eng)

Best Mobile Game
Call of Duty: Mobile (Colin Yao & Vincent Gao)
Grindstone (Dan Vader)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simon Flesser)
Sky: Children of the Light (Jenova Chen)
What the Golf? (Tim Garbos & Peter Bruun)

Best Fighting Game
Dead or Alive 6 (Yohei Shimbori)
Jump Force (Toyokazu Sakamoto)
Mortal Kombat 11 (Ed Boon)
River City Girls (Adam Tierney & Bannon Rudis)
Samurai Shodown (Nobuyuki Kuroki)

Best Art Direction
Control (Janne Pulkkinen)
Death Stranding (Yoji Shinkawa)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Masaki Yasuda)
The Outer Worlds (Daniel Alpert)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simon Flesser)

Best Animation
Control (Ilkka Kuusela, Fraser Colley & Maksym Zhuravlov)
Days Gone (Jake Spence & Emmanuel Roth)
Death Stranding (Masaaki Kawata)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Marie Wyatt, Sota Yuyama & Aric Norine)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Takashi Sato & Nobuto Usui) 

Best Story/Writing
Control (Sam Lake, Clay Murphy & Josh Stubbs)
Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima, Kenji Yano & Shuyo murata)
Disco Elysium (Robert Kurvitz)
Outer Wilds (Kelsey Beachum)
Telling Lies (Sam Barlow & Amelia Gray)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Ashly Burch - The Outer Worlds for voicing Parvati Holcomb
Courtney Hope - Control for voicing Jesse Faden
Mads Mikkelsen - Death Stranding for voicing Cliff
Norman Reedus - Death Stranding for voicing Sam Porter Bridges
Justin Roiland - Trover Saves the Universe for voicing various characters

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Asgard's Wrath (William A. Spence IV)
Beat Saber (Ján Ilavský & Peter Hrinčár)
Blood & Truth (Stuart Whyte)
Trover Saves the Universe (Matty Studivan & Justin Roiland)
Vader Immortal (Ben Snow)
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2020 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Hisashi Nogami) 
Ghost of Tsushima (Brian Fleming)
Half-Life: Alyx (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
The Last of Us Part II (Evan Wells & Neil Druckmann)
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Ara Demirjian)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Ghost of Tsushima (Nate Fox & Jason Connell)
Half-Life: Alyx (Gabe Newell)
The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann, Anthony Newman & Kurt Margenau)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Thomas Mahler)
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Brian Horton, Marcus Smith & Bryan Intihar)

Best Game Design
Astro's Playroom (Gento Morita)
Ghost of Tsushima (Nate Fox, Jason Connell, Jeff McGann & Parker Hamilton)
Hades (Eduardo Gorinstein)
Half-Life: Alyx (Dario Casali & Corey Peters)
The Last of Us: Part II (Richard Cambier & Emilia Schatz)

Best Family/Casual Game
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Aya Kyogoku)
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (Daniel Neil)
Dreams (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
Fall Guys (Jamie Riding)
Minecraft Dungeons (Måns Olson)

Best Sport/Racing Game
FIFA 21 (Mathew Prior & Adam Shaikh)
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Daniel Doptis)
MLB '20: The Show (Jason Villa)
NBA 2K21 (Jeffrey J. Thomas, Erick Boenisch & Mike Wang)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 (Barry Morales)

Best Technical Innovation
Dreams (Alex Evans & David Smith)
Ghost of Tsushima (Adrian Bentley & Chris Zimmerman)
The Last of Us Part II (Travis McIntosh & Christian Gyrling)
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Jan-Erik Steel, Erik Tumbusch, Brian Baron & Patrick Donnelly)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Alain Guyet, Lionel Fuentes, Sebastian Wloch & Sebastien Ricolfi)

Best Multiplayer
Animal Crossing: New Horizons 
Call of Duty: Warzone
Fall Guys
Ghost of Tsushima
Valorant

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (George Kamitani)
Crusader Kings III (Henrik Fåhraeus)
Desperados III (Dominik Abé)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (David Dedeine)
XCOM: Chimera Squad (Andrew Frederiksen & Sarah Lynn)

Best Sound Design
Ghost of Tsushima (Phillip A. Kovats, Chris Canning, Jeremie Voillot & Michael Niederquell)
Half-Life: Alyx (Michael Palm, Ronald Dutch Hill, Aaron Southerland & Garrett Montgomery)
The Last of Us Part II (Robert Krekel, Phillip A. Kovats, Jeremie Voillot & Neil Uchitel)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Kristoffer Larson, Alan Rankin, Kyle Bailey & Michael Finley)
Resident Evil 3 (Yoshito Kato, Toshihiko Horiyama, Shotaro Nakayama & Takahiro Kitagawa)

Best Music
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Nobuo Uematsu, Masahi Hamauzu & Mitsuto Suzuki)
Ghost of Tsushima (Ilan Eshkeri & Shigeru Umebayashi)
Hades (Darren Korb)
The Last of Us Part II (Gustavo Santaolalla)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)
The Pathless (Austin Wintory)

Best Mobile Game
Genshin Impact (Cai Haoyu & Yu-peng Chen)
Legends of Runeterra (Andrew Yip & Dave Guskin)
Little Orpheus (Dan Pinchbeck)
The Pathless (Matt Nava)
Pokémon Café Mix (Yoshinori Obishaku)

Best Fighting Game
Granblue Fantasy Versus (Tetsuya Fukuhara)
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Ryouta Matsushita)
One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Yasuhrio Abe)
Street Fighter V Champion Edition (Takayuki Nakayama)
Them's Fightin' Herds (Aaron Stavely & Lauren Faust)

Best Art Direction
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Shintaro Takai)
Ghost of Tsushima (Jason Connell)
Hades (Joanne Tran & Jen Zee)
The Last of Us Part II (Erick Pangilinan & John Sweeney)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Daniel van Leeuwen & Jeremy Gritton)

Best Animation
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Yoshiyuki Soma, Akira Iwasawa & Ryo Hara)
Ghost of Tsushima (John Meehan, Douglas Hagstrom & Tom Bland)
The Last of Us Part II (Jeremy Yates, Almudena Soria Sancho, Eric Baldwin & Troy Slough)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Warren Goff, Jim Davidson, Jason Martinsen & Boris Hiestand)
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Robert Coddington, Danny Garnett, Elliot Grossman & Michael Yosh)

Best Story/Writing
Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Blacha & Tomasz Marchewka)
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Kazushige Nojima)
Ghost of Tsushima (Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs & Jordan Lemos)
Hades (Greg Kasavin)
The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann & Halley Gross)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Laura Bailey - The Last of Us Part II for voicing Abby
Cody Christian - Final Fantasy VII Remake for voicing Cloud Strife
Nadji Jeter - Spider-Man: Miles Morales for voicing Miles Morales/Spider-Man
Ashley Johnson - The Last of Us Part II for voicing Ellie
Daisuke Tsuji - Ghost of Tsushima for voicing Jin Sakai

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Dreams (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
Half-Life: Alyx (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Dan Doptis)
Star Wars Squadrons (Ian S. Frazier)
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (Adam Grantham)
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2021 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Deathloop (Yoann Guilloud)
It Takes Two (Aimar Bergan)
Metroid Dread (Yoshio Sakamoto & Shinya Takahashi)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Scott J. Michalek)
Returnal (Suvi Järvinen & Markku Velinen)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Deathloop (Dinga Bakaba & Sébastien Mitton)
It Takes Two (Josef Fares)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Jean-François Dugas)
Metroid Dread (José Luis Márquez & Fumihiko Hayashi)
Resident Evil Village (Morimasa Sato)

Best Game Design
Deathloop (Gauthier Roussel, Yoann Saquet & Joackim Daviaud)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins)
It Takes Two (Filip Coulianos)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Josue Benavidez, Mark C. Stuart & Joel Goodsell)
Returnal (Henri Mustonen)

Best Family/Casual Game
It Takes Two (Josef Fares)
Mario Party Superstars (Takeru Sakimoto)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Cameron Christian, Ryan Smith & Mike Daly)
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Koichi Hayashida)
WarioWare: Get it Together! (Goro Abe & Yu Yamanaka)

Best Sport/Racing Game
The Climb 2 (Sebastien Laurent & Fatih Özbayram)
FIFA 22 (Mathew Prior)
Forza Horizon 5 (Michael Brown)
Hot Wheels Unleashed (Domenico Celenza)
Riders Republic (Igor Manceau & Arnaud Ragot)

Best Technical Innovation
Battlefield 2042 (Johan Allanson, Gustav Joelsson, Mikael Uddholm & Erik Westerlund)
Deathloop (Hugues Tardif)
Forza Horizon 5 (Matthew Craven & Alan Roberts)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Bradley Fitzgerald & Peter Kao)
Returnal (Ari Arnbjörnsson & Markku Velinen)

Best Multiplayer
Back 4 Blood
Forza Horizon 5
It Takes Two
Monster Hunter Rise
Valheim

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Age of Empires IV (Adam P. Isgreen)
Farming Simulator 22 (Thomas Frey)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins)
Jurassic World Evolution 2 (Richard Newbold)
New Pokémon Snap (Haruki Suzaki)

Best Sound Design
Deathloop (Michel Trémoullier, Grégory Desmurs, Thomas Mitton & Benjamin Darmon)
Forza Horizon 5 (Fraser Strachan, Richard Blackley & Ruaraigh Chapman) 
Halo Infinite (Sōtarō Tojima, Chase Thompson, Kyle Fraser & Jomo Kangethe)
Resident Evil Village (Wataru Hachisako, Yuji Higashiyama, Kenji Kojima & Yusuke Kinoshita)
Returnal (Jeremy Corbett, Toivo Kallio & Juuso Tolonen)

Best Music
Deathloop (Tom Salta)
It Takes Two (Gustaf Grefberg & Kristofer Eng)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Richard Jacques)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Mark Mothersbaugh & Wataru Hokoyama)
Returnal (Bobby Krlic)

Best Mobile Game
Behind the Frame (Weichen Lin)
Fantasian (Takuto Nakamura)
League of Legends: Wild Rift (Andrei van Roon)
Pikmin Bloom (Tatsuo Nomura)
Pokémon Unite (Masaaki Hoshino)

Best Fighting Game
Guilty Gear Strive (Akira Katano)
Melty Blood: Type Lumina (Kamone Serizawa)
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Diego Rodríguez & Sergio Chacón)
Pokémon Unite (Masaaki Hoshino)
Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (Yoshihiro Tsuzuko)

Best Art Direction
The Artful Escape (Arden Beckwith, Johnny Galvatron, Mikey McCusker & Tessa Monash)
Deathloop (Sébastien Mitton)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Julian Vermuelen)
Psychonauts 2 (Lisette Titre-Montgomery)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Jason Hickey & Gavin Goulden)

Best Animation
Deathloop (Damien Pougheon)
It Takes Two (Oskar Thuresson, Leo Skörd Ringborg & Emil Claeson)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Hunter Schmidt)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Kevin Grow, Elliot Grossman, Danny Garnett & Steven Ryder)
Resident Evil Village (Tetsuhei Asano, Hiroko Ihara & Yuya Takasaki)

Best Story/Writing
Deathloop (Paweł Kroenke & Sandra Duval)
It Takes Two (Soni Jorgensen & Josef Fares)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Jonathan Zimmerman)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Mary DeMarle & Kasper Hartman)
Psychonauts 2 (Tim Schafer)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Jack Black - Psychonauts 2 for voicing Helmut Fullbear
Giancarlo Esposito - Far Cry 6 for voicing Antón Castillo
Jennifer Hale - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart for voicing Rivet
Jason E. Kelley - Deathloop for voicing Colt Vahn
Erika Nori - Life is Strange: True Colors for voicing Alex Chen
Maggie Robertson - Resident Evil Village for voicing Lady Dimitrescu

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Hitman 3 (Mattias Engström)
I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar (Charles Amis)
Lone Echo II (Ru Weerasuriya & Nathan Phal-Liff)
Resident Evil 4 VR (Mark Pacini)
Sniper Elite VR (Steven Archer)
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2022 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Elden Ring (Yuzo Kojima)
God of War Ragnarök (Chad Cox)
Horizon Forbidden West (Joel Eschler)
Stray (Swann Martin Raget)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Koh Kojima, Genki Yokota & Katsuya Eguchi)

Best Action/Adventure Game
God of War Ragnarök (Eric Williams)
Horizon Forbidden West (Mathijs de Jonge)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Kevin Choteau)
Stray (Colas Koola & Vivien Mermet-Guyenet)
Vampire Survivors (Luca Galante)

Best Game Design
Elden Ring (Junya Ishizaki, Yosuke Kayugawa & Ryu Matsumoto)
God of War Ragnarök (Jason McDonald)
Horizon Forbidden West (Floris Kooij & Håkan Persson)
Marvel Snap (Ben Hayes)
Vampire Survivors (Luca Galante)

Best Family/Casual Game
Dreamlight Valley (Nicholas Mainville)
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Shinya Kumazaki & Tatsuya Kamiyama)
Splatoon 3 (Seita Inoue & Shintaro Saro)
Stray (Colas Koola & Vivien Mermet-Guyenet)
Tunic (Andrew Shouldice)

Best Sport/Racing Game
F1 22 (Lee Mather & Paul Jeal)
FIFA 23 (Garreth Reeder)
Gran Turismo 7 (Kazunori Yamauchi)
NBA 2K23 (Mike Wang)
OlliOlli World (John Ribbins)

Best Technical Innovation
Elden Ring (Takeshi Suzuki & Yuki Kido)
God of War Ragnarök (Josh Hobson, Jonathan Burke & Stephen McAuley)
Horizon Forbidden West (Michiel van der Leeuw, Stefan Lauwers & Remco Straatman)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Alain Guyet, Cyril Doillon & Nicolas Bécavin)
Stray (Rémi Bismuth, Sores Hatipoglu & Antonin Ferret)

Best Multiplayer
Elden Ring
MultiVersus
Overwatch 2
Splatoon 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Dreamlight Valley (Nicholas Mainville)
Dune: Spice Wars (Sebastien Vidal & Nicolas Cannasse)
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (Davide Soliani)
Not for Broadcast (Jason Orbaum & Alex Paterson)
Two Point Campus (Gary Carr & Mark Webley)

Best Sound Design
Elden Ring (Tsukasa Saitoh, Shoi Miyazawa & Tai Tomisawa)
God of War Ragnarök (Phillip A. Kovats, Keiichi Kitahara, Jeremie Voillot, Jeremy Rogers & Michael Kent)
Gran Turismo 7 (Daisuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Minagawa, Masao Kimura & Daiki Kasho)
Horizon Forbidden West (Bastian Steelbach, Phillip A. Kovats, Anton Woldhek, Jacopo Niccolò Consonni & Lovisa Bergdahl)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Junya Kuroda, Hirotomi Imoto, Masataka Saito & Tomomi Saito)

Best Music
Elden Ring (Yuka Kitamura)
God of War Ragnarök (Bear McCreary)
Horizon Forbidden West (Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest & Oleksa Kozowchuk)
Metal: Hellsinger (Elvira Björkman & Nicklas Hjertberg)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Yasunori Mitsuda)

Best Mobile Game
Apex Legends Mobile (Steven Ferreira)
Diablo Immortal (Wyatt Cheng)
Immortality (Sam Barlow)
Marvel Snap (Julia Humphreys & Hamilton Chu)
Tower of Fantasy (Mark Ren & Bo Wang)

Best Fighting Game
DNF Duel (Tatsuru Tazaki)
The King of Fighters XV (Eisuke Ogura & Kaito Soranaka)
MultiVersus (Tony Huynh)
Sifu (Jordan Layani)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Jonathan Lavigne)

Best Art Direction
Elden Ring (Hidenori Sato)
God of War Ragnarök (Rafael Grassetti)
Horizon Forbidden West (Jan-Bart van Beek & Misja Baas)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Olivier Ponsonnet)
Stray (Ivan Jankovic, Marcus Dublin & Sanket Gupta)

Best Animation
Elden Ring (Hideto Nonokawa & Keita Suyama)
God of War Ragnarök (Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto, Medhi Yssef & James Sweeney)
Horizon Forbidden West (Richard Oud, Paulus Bannink & Niek Neervens)
Moss: Book II (Richard Lico, Jarrod Showers & Lianne Cruz)
Stray (Andrew Boetsma, Satyajit Pattanik & Jophray Mikojczyk)

Best Story/Writing
Elden Ring (Hidetaka Miyazaki & George R.R. Martin)
God of War Ragnarök (Matthew Sophos & Richard Zangrande Gilbert)
Horizon Forbidden West (John Gonzalez & Benjamin McCaw)
Immortality (Sam Barlow, Amelia Gray, Allan Scott & Barry Gifford)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Sébastien Renaud)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Ashly Burch - Horizon Forbidden West for voicing Aloy
Manon Gage - Immortality for voicing Marissa Marcel
Christopher Judge - God of War Ragnarök for voicing Kratos
Charlotte McBurney - A Plague Tale: Requiem for voicing Amicia
Sunny Suljic - God of War Ragnarök for voicing Atreus

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Cosmonious High (Chelsea Howe)
The Last Clockwinder (John Austin & Matt Blair)
Moss: Book II (Peter Boldt & Argus Mulin)
Red Matter 2 (Iñaki Hernandez & Norman Schaar)
Tentacular (Simon Cubasch)
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2023 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Alan Wake 2 (Will Graham)
Baldur's Gate 3 (David Walgrave)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Eiji Aonuma)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Joe Castagno & Ara Demirjian)
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Takeshi Tezuka)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Alan Wake 2 (Sam Lake & Kyle Rowley)
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Masaru Yamamura)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Ryan Smith, Marcus Smith & Bryan Intihar)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Stig Asmussen)

Best Game Design
Baldur's Gate 3 (Nick Pechenin, Edouard Imbert & Fahrang Namdar)
Dave the Diver (Chanhee Woo)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Yohei Fujino, Yasutaka Takeuchi & Mari Shirakawa)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Mark C. Stuart, Drew Murray, Marcus Luna De Leon & Joel Goodsell)
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Koichi Hayashida, Terumasa Kato & Shigefumi Hino)

Best Family/Casual Game
Disney Illusion Island (Aj Grand-Scrutton)
Hogwarts Legacy (Alan Tew)
Pikmin 4 (Yuji Kando & Tetsushi Tsunoda)
Sonic Superstars (Shunsuke Kawarazuka)
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Shiro Mouri)

Best Sport/Racing Game
EA Sports FC 2023 (John Shepherd)
Forza Motorsport (Chris Esaki & Andy Beaudoin)
F-Zero 99 (Chris Polney)
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turgocharged (Michele Caletti & Domenico Celenza)
MLB '23: The Show (Chris Gill & Jason Villa)

Best Technical Innovation
Alan Wake 2 (Antti Kerminen)
Hogwarts Legacy (Rob Nelson, Jose Villetta & Jeffrey Gosztyla)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Takahiro Okuda, Yuichiro Okamura, Katsuhisa Sato & Shigetoshi Kitayama)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Jesse Werner, Douglas Sheahan, Austin Morris & Paul Hiley)
Starfield (Christopher Rodriguez)

Best Multiplayer
Baldur's Gate 3
Diablo IV
Forza Motorsport
Party Animals
Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Advanced Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp (James Montagna)
Cities: Skylines II (Hans Zenjuga)
Dave the Diver (Jaeho Hwang)
Fire Emblem Engage (Tsutomu Tei & Kenta Nakanishi)
Pikmin 4 (Tetsushi Tsunoda & Yuji Kando)

Best Sound Design
Alan Wake 2 (Richard Lapington & Niko Henttonen)
Hi-Fi Rush (Suichi Kobori & Makoto Yamaguchi)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Phillip A. Kovats, Jeremie Voillot, Paul S. Mudra & Dwight Okahara)
Resident Evil 4 (Hiroshi Tomura, Kenji Kojima, Takahiro Kitagawa & Setsuo Yamamoto)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Nick Von Kaenel, Alex Barnhart & Oscar Coen)

Best Music
Alan Wake 2 (Petri Alanko)
Baldur's Gate 3 (Borislav Slavov)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi & Masato Ohashi)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (John Paesano)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab)

Best Mobile Game
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis (Motomu Toriyama & Tetsuya Nomura)
Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Tom Blind & Logan Beru)
Honkai: Star Rail (Cai Haoyu & David Jiang)
Monster Hunter Now (Tatsuo Nomura)
Terra Nil (Sam Alfred, Jonathan Hau-Yoon & Jarred Lunt)

Best Fighting Game
God of Rock (Christina Seelye)
Mortal Kombat 1 (Ed Boon)
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (Diego Rodríguez & Sergio Chacón)
Pocket Bravery (Anderson Halfeld)
Street Fighter 6 (Takayuki Nakayama)

Best Art Direction
Alan Wake 2 (Janne Pulkkinen)
Hi-Fi Rush (Keita Sakai)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Satoru Takizawa)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Jacinda Chew & Grant Hollis)
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Masanobu Sato)

Best Animation
Final Fantasy XVI (Ryouhei Sakai, Takaharu Aono & Hirotaka Sawada)
Hi-Fi Rush (Koichi Hatakeyama)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Robert Coddington, Danny Garnett, Brian Wyser & Michael Yosh)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Nathan Dunlap, James Cockerham, Chris Perkowitz-Colvard & Trung Doan)
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Tatsuya Sakai & Takahiro Nishigaki)

Best Story/Writing
Alan Wake 2 (Sam Lake, Clay Murphy & Tyler Burton Smith)
Baldur's Gate 3 (Adam Smith)
Final Fantasy XVI (Kazutoyo Maehiro)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Akihito Toda & Naoki Mori)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Jon Paquette, Benjamin Arfmann & Walt Williams)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Idris Elba - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty for voicing Solomon Reed
Melanie Liburd - Alan Wake 2 for voicing Saga Anderson
Yuri Lowenthal - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for voicing Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Cameron Monaghan - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for voicing Cal Kestis
Neil Newbon - Baldur's Gate 3 for voicing Astarion
Patricia Summersett - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for voicing Princess Zelda

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Asgard's Wrath 2 (Bill Spence & Mat Kraemer)
Assassin's Creed Nexus VR (Mark Russell)
Horizon Call of the Mountain (Jan-Bart van Beek & Alex Barnes)
Humanity (Yugo Nakamura)
Vertigo 2 (Zach Tsiakalis-Brown)

Special Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles Martinet
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2024 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year
Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
Balatro (LocalThunk)
Black Myth: Wukong (Feng Ji)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Yoshinori Kitase)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Junichi Yoshizawa)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
Black Myth: Wukong (Feng Ji)
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Satoshi Terada & Tomomi Sano)
Stellar Blade (Kim Hyung-tae)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Dmitry Grigorenko & Oliver Hollis-Leick)

Best Game Design
Animal Well (Billy Basso)
Astro Bot (Gento Morita)
Balatro (LocalThunk)
Black Myth: Wukong (Jiang Baicun)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Yasuhiro Akimoto)

Best Family/Casual Game
Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
Little Kitty, Big City (Matt T. Wood)
The Plucky Squire (James Turner & Jonathan Biddle)
Princess Peach: Showtime! (Etsunobu Ebisu)
Super Mario Party Jamboree (Takeru Sugimoto)

Best Sport/Racing Game
EA Sports FC 25 (John Shepherd)
F1 24 (Lee Mather)
MLB '24: The Show (Chris Cutliff)
NBA 2K25 (Mike Wang & Erick Boenisch)
WWE 2K24 (Lynell Jinks & Gregory A. Thomas)

Best Technical Innovation
Astro Bot (Masayuki Yamada & Takumi Yoshida)
Batman: Arkham Shadow (Colin Doody & Troy Johnsen)
Black Myth: Wukong (Zhao Wenyong)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Jim Kjellin, Magnus Auvinen & Patrik Wilbo)
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Gavin Costello, Loong Wei Ding & Andrew Vidler)

Best Multiplayer
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Helldivers II
Super Mario Party Jamboree
Tekken 8
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Best Strategy/Simulation Game
Age of Mythology: Retold (Adam Isgreen & Michael Mann)
Balatro (LocalThunk)
Frostpunk 2 (Jakub Stokalski & Łukasz Juszczyk)
Manor Lords (Grzegorz Styczeń)
Tactical Breach Wizards (Tom Francis)

Best Sound Design
Astro Bot (Junko Sano & Yuji Uchiyama)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Collin Ayers, Scott Eckert, James McCawley & Brian Tuey)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Shingo Inoue, Shoi Tokunaga, Hikaru Taniyama & Makoto Ise)
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (David García Díaz, Daniele Galante, Jamie Molloy & Jordan Payne)
Star Wars Outlaws (Romain Brillaud, Simon Koudriavtsev, Jacob Coles & Antoine Rozan)

Best Music
Astro Bot (Kenneth C M Young)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Masashi Hamauzu & Mitsuto Suzuki)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Shoji Meguro)
Star Wars Outlaws (Wilbert Roget II, Jon Everist & Kazuma Jinnouchi)
Stellar Blade (Hwang Joo-eun, Oliver Good & Keita Inoue)

Best Mobile Game
Balatro (LocalThunk)
Monument Valley 3 (Jennifer Estaris)
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket (Ai Takeuchi & Tetsuya Iguchi)
Wuthering Waves (Solon Lee)
Zenless Zone Zero (Li Zhenyu)

Best Fighting Game
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Tairi Kikuchi)
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Tetsuya Fukuhara)
Tekken 8 (Katsuhiro Harada, Kohei Ikeda & Yasuki Nakabayashi)
Underdogs (Dave Levy & Assaf Ronen)
WWE 2K24 (Lynell Jinks & Gregory A. Thomas)

Best Art Direction
Astro Bot (Sebastian Brueckner)
Black Myth: Wukong (Yang Qi)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Kazuma Koda)
Neva (Conrad Roset)
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Dan Attwell)

Best Animation
Astro Bot (Jamie Smith & Kohei Kawa)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Yoshiyuki Soma, Akira Iwasawa & Ryo Hara)
Neva (Adrián Miguel, Ian García & Arnau Martín)
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Jacques Exertier & Bruce Nguyen Van Lan)
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Guy Midgley, Kirill Spiridonov, Felix Ilsley & Gregorio Malara)

Best Story/Writing
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Kazushige Nojima)
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Kazunobu Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Furuta & Masayoshi Yokoyama)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Yuichiro Tanaka & Katsura Hashino)
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Lara Derham & Tameem Antoniades)
Thank Goodness You're Here (James Carbutt & Will Todd)

Best Voice-Over Performance
Troy Baker - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for voicing Indiana Jones
Humberly Gonzalez - Star Wars Outlaws for voicing Kay Vess
Melina Juergens - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II for voicing Senua
Hannah Telle - Life is Strange: Double Exposure for voicing Max Caulfield
Briana White - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for voicing Aerith Gainsborough

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game
Alien: Rogue Incursion (TQ Jefferson & Eugene Elkin)
Batman: Arkham Shadow (Ryan Payton)
Metro Awakening (Martin de Ronde & Samar Louwe)
Skydance's Behemoth (Brian Murphy & Shawn Kittelsen)
Underdogs (Dave Levy & Assaf Ronen)
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2025 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards (Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

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