Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist in this record-breaking year! 
 

CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT

New Games IP
sponsored by Pole to Win
  • Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games 
  • Overcooked - Ghost Town Games 
  • Dawn of Titans - NaturalMotion  
  • Yooka-Laylee - Playtonic Games 
  • Virginia - Variable State 
  • Snake Pass - Sumo Digital
  • Frontier – Planet Coaster
  • Inside - Playdead
  • Little Nightmares - Bandai Namco 
  • Human Fall Flat - Curve Digital 
Animation New for 2017
Unity 3D
  • Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
  • Blackwood Crossing – PaperSeven 
  • Yooka Yaylee - Playtonic 
  • Virginia - Variable State 
  • Total War: Warhammer - Creative Assembly
  • The Sexy Brutale - Cavalier Games 
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine - CD Projekt Red 
  • Planet Coaster - Frontier 
Visual Design New for 2017
  • Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games  
  • Forza Horizon 3 - Playground Games 
  • Halo Wars 2- Creative Assembly 
  • Yooka-Laylee - Playtonic Games 
  • Batman: Arkham VR - Rocksteady Studios 
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine - CD Projekt Red 
  • Virginia - Variable State 
  • Dawn of Titans - NaturalMotion  
Music Design New for 2017
  • Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games
  • Forza Horizon 3 - Playground Games 
  • The Sexy Brutale - Cavalier Games 
  • Virginia - Variable State 
  • Planet Coaster - Frontier 
  • Sniper Elite 4 - Rebellion 
  • Hue - Fiddlesticks Games  
  • PlayStation VR Worlds - Sony Interactive Entertainment 
  • Total War: Warhammer - Creative Assembly 
  • Get Even - Bandai Namco  
Sound Design New for 2017
sponsored by Dolby
  • PlayStation VR Worlds - Sony Interactive Entertainment 
  • Until Dawn: Rush of Blood - Supermassive Games 
  • Forza Horizon 3 - Playground Games
  • Halo Wars 2 - Creative Assembly  
  • Sniper Elite 4- Rebellion 
  • Battlefield 1- EA DICE  
  • Stories Untold - No Code 
  • Planet Coaster - Frontier 
  • Batman: Arkham VR - Rocksteady Studios 
Best Writing New for 2017
  • Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games
  • Torment: Tides of Numenera - inXile Entertainment
  • Sunless Sea - Failbetter Games
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine - CD Projekt Red
  • The Sexy Brutale - Cavalier Games
  • Stories Untold - No Code
  • The Bunker - Splendy Games
  • Blackwood Crossing - PaperSeven
  • Batman: Arkham VR - Rocksteady Games
  • Get Even - Bandai Namco
Best Performance
sponsored by UKIE
  • SIGNA (Inside) - Playdead 
  • Anna Acton (Hue)- Fiddlesticks Games 
  • Doug Cockle (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine) - CD Projekt Red 
  • Larry Fessenden (Until Dawn: Rush of Blood) - Supermassive Games 
  • Jon McKellan (Stories Untold) - No Code 
  • Adam Brown (The Bunker) - Splendy Games 
  • Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham VR) - Rocksteady Studios 
  • John DiMaggio (LEGO Dimensions Adventure Time Level Pack) - TT Games
  • Brian Blessed (Loco Dojo) - Make Real
Publishing Hero
  • Team17
  • 505 Games
  • Curve Digital
  • Sega Europe Ltd
  • All 4 Games
  • Kiss Ltd
  • Wales Interactive
  • Dovetail Games
  • Devolver Digital 
  • ID@Xbox
Micro/Start Up Studio
sponsored by Perforce
  • Splendy Games
  • Ghost Town Games
  • Variable State
  • Fiddlesticks Games
  • No Code
  • Ant Workshop
Independent Studio
sponsored by Amiqus
  • Supermassive Games
  • Playground Games
  • Playsport Games
  • CD Projekt Red
  • Playdead
  • Sumo Digital
  • Rebellion
  • Frontier
In-House Studio
sponsored by Green Man Gaming
  • NaturalMotion
  • Creative Assembly
  • Rocksteady Games
  • Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio
  • TT Games
  • Guerrilla Games
  • Team17
  • Jagex
  • Dovetail Games
New Studio
sponsored by Games London
  • Cavalier Games
  • Ghost Town Games
  • Variable State
  • Playtonic Games
  • Playsport Games
  • Splendy Games
  • Fiddlesticks Games

SPECIALIST CONTRIBUTION

Creative Outsourcer - Visual & Development
  • Multiple projects - Axis Animation
  • Lost (Amazon Lumberyard) - Realtime UK
  • Hybrid Wars (Wargaming WG Labs) - Flipbook
  • Virginia - Pink Kong Studios
  • Multiple projects - d3t
Design & Creativity Tool
  • Popcorn FX - Persistant Studios 
  • Dehumaniser - Krotos Ltd 
  • WWise - Audiokinetic 
  • GameMaker Studio - YoYo Games 
  • Maya 2017 - Autodesk 
Tools Provider - Production
sponsored by Testronic Lab
  • Favro
  • Perforce Software
  • Popcorn FX - Persistant Studios
  • Plan of Attack on behalf of Amazon Game Studios
  • YoYo Games
Engine
  • Amazon Lumberyard
  • Guerrilla Games (Decima Engine)
  • Epic Games (Unreal Engine)
  • YoYo Games (Gamemaker Studio)
  • Unity
Services
  • Audiomotion Studios
  • Flipbook
  • Formosa Interactive
  • GameDev Network Limited
  • d3t
  • Player Research
  • Red Kite Games
QA & Localisation
  • Allcorrect
  • Jinglebell Localization
  • LocalizeDirect Ltd
  • Lollipop Robot
  • Testronic
  • MoGi Group Ltd
  • Testology
  • VMC
  • Universally Speaking
Recruiter
  • Aardvark Swift
  • Amiqus
  • Avatar Games
  • CV Bay Ltd
  • Datascope Recruitment
  • OPM Response
  • Skillsearch Games & Interactive
Creative Outsourcer - Audio
  • Side UK – Battlefield 1 (EA Dice)
  • Submersion Audio – Robo Recall (Epic Games)
  • Nimrod – Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
  • Sounding Sweet -  Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games)
  • 93 Steps – Ride 2 (Milestone)
  • Soundcuts Ltd – Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
  • Formosa Interactive – Multiple projects
  • Sweet Justice Sound – Multiple projects
Technology Provider
  • Allegorithmic
  • Dimensional Imaging (DI4D™)
  • Epic Games
  • Multiplay
  • OptiTrack
  • Speech Graphics
  • Spirit AI
  • Tazman-Audio Ltd
Studio of the Year
sponsored by EPIC
  • Supermassive Games
  • Guerrilla Games
  • Playground Games
  • Sumo Digital
  • Creative Assembly
  • CD Projekt Red
  • Team 17
  • Rebellion