Awards voor games worden haast op elk groot event uitgereikt. Eén van de meest gerespecteerde awards in de industrie, zijn de Game Developers Choice Awards van de GDC. Bij deze awards worden games namelijk gekozen door ontwikkelaars binnen de industrie. Veel mensen hadden verwacht dat God of War met de meeste prijzen naar huis zou gaan, net als een maand eerder op de DICE Summit.

Verra end genoeg wist God of War echter geen enkele award binnen te slepen. De grote winnaar was namelijk Shadow of the Colo us. De game mocht de awards voor Best Game, Character Design, Game Design en Best Visual Arts in ontvangst nemen. Stuk voor stuk awards waar God of War ook voor genomineerd was. Nintendogs wist twee awards te winnen, namelijk Best Technology en de Innovation Award. Ook Psychonauts viel twee maal in de prijzen. Zowel Best Writing als Best New Studio (Double Fine Productions) mag de game zich toe eigenen.Best Game

Animal Cro ing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)

- Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, Takashi Tezuka, Kazumi Totaka

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe, Shannon Studstill

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems/RedOctane)

- Rob Kay, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulos

Shadow of the Colo us (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) - Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda

The Movies (Lionhead Studios/Activision)

- Gary Carr, Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley

Best Audio

Call of Duty 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)

- Mark Ganus

Electroplankton (Nintendo)

- Toshio Iwai, Koichi Kyuma, Yuichi Ozaki

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- Dave Murrant

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems/RedOctane) - Eric Brosius, Ka on Crooker

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations/Microsoft Game Studios)

- Nick Bygrave, Guy Whitmore, Nick Wiswell

Character Design

City of Villains (Cryptic Studios/NCsoft Corporation)

- Ocala Bellows Kulig, Ryan Butts, Jay Doherty, Jeremy Mattson

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Oddworld Inhabitants/Electronic Arts)

- Lorne Lanning, Rich McKain, Iain Morton, Raymond Swanland

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions/Majesco Entertainment Company)

- Scott Campbell

Shadow of the Colo us (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) - Atsuko Fukuyama, Hitoshi Niwa, Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito UedaGame Design

Animal Cro ing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)

- Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, Takashi Tezuka, Kazumi Totaka

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)

- Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions/Majesco Entertainment Company)

- Erik Robson, Tim Schafer

Shadow of the Colo us (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) - Junichi Hosono, Fumito UedaBest Technology

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Digital Illusions/Electronic Arts)

- Fred Gill, Måns Vestin

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems/RedOctane)

- Eran Egozy, Eric Malafeew, Phil Winston

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo) - Tsutomu Kaneshige

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations/Microsoft Game Studios)

- Edmund Clay, Roger Perkins, Phil Teschner, Ian Wilson

Shadow of the Colo us (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

- Jinji Horagai, Takuya Seki, Hajime Sugiyama, Masanobu Tanaka

Best Visual Arts

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- Steve Caterson, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations/Microsoft Game Studios)

- Gren Atherton, Julie McGurren, Peter Roe, Kiki Wolfkill

Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4/Capcom Entertainment)

- Yusuke Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, Yusuke Kan, Masaki Yamanaka

Shadow of the Colo us (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) - Koji Hasegawa, Hironobu Nakano, Masanori Kajita, Fumito Ueda

We Love Katamari (Namco Limited/Namco Hometek)

- Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Ugajin

Best Writing

Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich (Irrational Games/Vivendi Universal Games)

- Ken Levine

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe, Marianne Krawcyzk, Alex Stein

Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream/Atari)

- David Cage

Jade Empire (BioWare Corp./Microsoft Game Studios)

- Drew Karpyshyn, Brian Kindregan, Luke Kristjanson, Mike Laidlaw, Peter Thomas, Mac Walters

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions/Majesco Entertainment Company) - Tim Schafer, Erik WolpawBest New Studio

ArenaNet (Guild Wars)

- Mike O'Brien, Jeff Strain, Patrick Wyatt

Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts) - Caroline Esmurdoc, Tim Schafer

New Crayon Games (Bonnie's Bookstore)

- Phil Steinmeyer

TellTale Games (Bone: Out From Boneville)

- David Bogan, Kevin Bruner, Dan Connors, Troy Molander

Wideload Games (Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse)

- Alexander Seropian

Innovation AwardNintendogs (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo) - Tsutomu Kaneshige

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems/RedOctane)

- Eric Brosius, Ka on Crooker