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[Now you’re playing with portals! Congratulations to Valve’s awesome puzzle-actioner for grabbing Game Of The Year at the Choice Awards tonight.]
Valve’s genre-blending first person shooter/puzzler, Portal, was the recipient of three honors including Game of the Year at the 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, presented at a ceremony this evening at CMP’s 2008 Game Developers Conference (GDC).
The game — one of three new games on the developer’s Orange Box, alongside Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2 — also took the prizes for Innovation and Best Game Design.
Also taking three awards was 2K Boston/2K Australia’s blockbuster shooter, Bioshock, which won for Best Audio, Best Visual Art and Best Writing. Realtime Worlds’ Crackdown, Thatgamecompany’s Fl0w, Crytek’s Crysis and Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass were the recipients of the remaining awards, taking home one honor each.
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Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back
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