Write what you are looking for and press enter to begin your search!

Logo
live-news-icon

Live News

A New Batman Arkham Game Is Coming Later This Year But It's Not What You Think: In an intense match, the Lone Wolves came out victorious. Read all about the big night here // X-Men 97 Episode 8 Breakdown & Easter Eggs: In an intense match, the Lone Wolves came out victorious. Read all about the big night here // Super MAGFest 2025 Announced For January; Themed After Sonic The Hedgehog Series: In an intense match, the Lone Wolves came out victorious. Read all about the big night here
post-16 post-13

God of War, Return of the Obra Dinn, & Rieko Kodama Won Big At GDC & IGF 2019

This week, the Game Developers Choice (GDC) awards and the Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards gave out the best in show of 2018 during the week of GDC 2019. To the surprise of no one, PlayStation and Santa Monica Studio’s God of War won this year’s GDC Game of the Year award.

But what’s cool is that last year’s awesome indie whodunnit mystery game, The Return of the Obra Dinn by Lucas Pope, won a lot of awards from both shows. The game won Best Narrative at the GDC awards and the IGF Grand Prize, as well as the IGF Excellence in Narrative. If you haven’t played the game, you should: it’ll test your cognitive and detective skills.

returnoftheobradinn

Here are my other takeaways regarding the awards:

  • It kinda sucks Octopath Traveler got snubbed in the audio department, but Celeste‘s OST and audio work is pretty ace.
  • It’s about goddamn time Sega’s Rieko Kodama got a Pioneer award for her long-standing contribution to JRPGs. She gave us the epic Phantasy Star IV, Skies of Arcadia, and the 7th Dragon series.

Check out the full list of winners below:

GDC Winners

Best Audio

Celeste (Matt Makes Games)

Best Debut

Mountains (Florence)

Best Design

Into the Breach (Subset Games)

Best Mobile Game

Florence (Mountains)

Innovation Award

Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Narrative

Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope)

Best Technology

Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

rdr2_fishing

Best Visual Art

Gris (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)

Best VR/AR Game

Beat Saber (Beat Games)

Audience Award

Beat Saber (Beat Games)

Game of the Year

God of War (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Pioneer Award

Rieko Kodama

Lifetime Achievement Award

Amy Hennig

IGF Winners

Seamus McNally Grand Prize

Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope)

Excellence in Visual Art

Mirror Drop (Ian Lilley)

Excellence in Audio

Paratopic (Arbitrary Metric)

Excellence in Design

Opus Magnum (Zacktronics)

opusmagnum.jpg

Excellence in Narrative

Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope)

Nuovo Award (given to unusual, experimental games)

Black Room (Cassie McQuarter)

Best Student Game

After HOURS (Bahiyya Khan, Claire Meekel, Tim Flusk, Abi Meekel)

Related News

post-07
HBO GO Has More Than 30 Batman Titles As The Batman Premieres In Cinemas This Week

Kapow! Gotham City’s most famous resident is taking over HBO GO. Drumming up excitement surrounding the theatrical release of The Batman ...

post-07
Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu Joins Street Fighter 5...

The Street Fighter 5 PC modding community are very creative, to say the least. The latest endeavour is adding Resident Evil's famous tall vampire lady...

post-07
Genshin Impact Keqing Figure Lightning Strikes Next December

Figure-maker Apex-Toys is making yet another Genshin Impact figure, this time on Liyue's Electro swordmaster Keqing. The figure is in a 1/7th scale...

Write a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Comment(1)

  1. PlayStation Pats Themselves On The Back With Latest God Of War Video – KAKUCHOPUREI.COM

    April 15, 2019 at 11:47 am

    […] Both of these gifts by the folks at Sony Santa Monica will be free to every PS4 user regardless of whether they own God of War or not. The game has since won many Game of the Year awards; most recently at the Game Developers Choice (GDC) awards and the Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards. […]

Tournament Tool Kit

Kakuchopurei Community