Shadow of Mordor Leads 2015 GDC Award Nominations

The 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards has revealed the finalists for 2015. Winners in all categories will be announced and honored at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony, taking place alongside the Independent Games Festival Awards on Wednesday, March 4th at 6:30pm at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center during the 2015 Game Developers Conference.

Leading the pack with five nominations is Monolith Productions’ open-world action game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – receiving nods for Game of the Year, Innovation, Best Design, Best Narrative and Best Technology. Following close behind are Creative Assembly’s Alien: Isolation and Destiny from Bungie, each of which were nominated for multiple awards across categories like Best Audio and Best Technology, and also nominated for the 2014 Game of the Year. Online voting for The Audience Awards for the GDCA will open to all finalists in February.