Die Award-Saison hat auch in der Gaming-Industrie begonnen und so verkündeten die Organisierenden des GDC Festival of Gaming die Finalisten der dieses Jahr zum 26. Mal stattfindenden Game Developer Choice Awards. Die Preis-Zeremonie mit der Verkündigung der Gewinnenden findet am 12. März 2026 im Rahmen des GDC Festival of Gaming in San Francisco statt.
Dieses Jahr ist Donkey Kong Bananza als Nintendo-eigenes Spiel in mehreren Kategorien nominiert. Wenn ihr selbst auch eine Stimme abgeben wollt, könnt ihr das hier vom 26. Januar bis zum 8. Februar 2026 per Abstimmung tun. Anbei findet ihr die Kategorien und die darin nominierten Spiele, ebenso wie nennenswerte “Honorable Mentions”, die es nicht in die finale Auswahlrunde geschafft haben:
Best Audio
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Rift of the NecroDancer (Brace Yourself Games, Tic Toc Games / Klei Publishing)South of Midnight (Compulsion Games / Xbox Game Studios)Honorable Mentions: ARC Raiders (Embark Studios), Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo), Doom: The Dark Ages (id Software / Bethesda Softworks), Lumines Arise (Enhance / Monstars Inc.), To a T (uvula LLC / Annapurna Interactive)
Best Debut
BALL X PIT (Kenny Sun & Friends / Devolver Digital)Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Dispatch (Adhoc Studio)Honorable Mentions: ARC Raiders (Embark Studios), Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia), Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry), The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (Too Kyo Games, Media. Vision Inc. / Aniplex), The Roottrees are Dead (Evil Trout Inc.)
Best Design
BALL X PIT (Kenny Sun & Friends / Devolver Digital)Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)Honorable Mentions: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Warhorse Studios / Deep Silver), The Alters (11 Bit Studios)
Innovation Award
BALL X PIT (Kenny Sun & Friends / Devolver Digital)Baby Steps (Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy / Devolver Digital)Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)Honorable Mentions: CloverPit (Panik Arcade / Future Friends Games), Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia), REPO (Semiwork Studios), Sunderfolk (Secret Door / Dreamhaven), To a T (uvula LLC / Annapurna Interactive)
Best Narrative
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena / Panic)Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)Honorable Mentions: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (DON’T NOD Montréal, DON’T NOD), South of Midnight (Compulsion Games / Xbox Game Studios), The Outer Worlds 2 (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios), The Séance of Blake Manor (Spooky Doorway / Raw Fury)
Best Technology
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)Honorable Mentions: ARC Raiders (Embark Studios), Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios / Electronic Arts), Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry), Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 (Warhorse Studios / Deep Silver), PEAK (Team PEAK / Aggro Crab, Landfall)
Best Visual Art
Absolum (Guard Crush Games, Dotemu, Supamonks / Dotemu)Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Hades II (Supergiant Games)Keeper (Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)Honorable Mentions: Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry), South of Midnight (Compulsion Games / Xbox Game Studios), Sword of the Sea (Giant Squid), The Midnight Walk (MoonHood / Fast Travel Games)
Social Impact
And Roger (TearyHand Studio / Kodansha)Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia)Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena / Panic)Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)Honorable Mentions: Herdling (Okomotive / Panic), Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (DON’T NOD Montréal, DON’T NOD ), PEAK (Team PEAK / Aggro Crab, Landfall), To a T (uvula LLC / Annapurna Interactive)
Game of the Year
Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)Honorable Mentions: Absolum (Guard Crush Games, Dotemu, Supamonks / Dotemu), BALL X PIT (Kenny Sun & Friends / Devolver Digital), Hades II (Supergiant Games)
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