23rd Game Developers Choice Awards
{{Short description|Awards ceremony}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox award
| name = 23rd Game Developers Choice Awards
| image =
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| venue = Moscone Center
| country =
| host = Leslee Sullivant
| date = March 22, 2023
| most_awards = Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarök (3)
| most_nominations = Elden Ring and Stray (6)
| award1_type = Lifetime Achievement Award
| award1_winner = John Romero
| award2_type = Pioneer Award
| award2_winner = Mabel Addis
| award3_type = Game of the Year
| award3_winner = Elden Ring
| viewership =
| previous = 2021
| main = Game Developers Choice Awards
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The 23rd Game Developers Choice Awards was an annual ceremony by Game Developers Choice Awards for outstanding game developers and video games which was held on March 22, 2023. The awards ceremony was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards.
Winners and Nominees
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File:John Romero wins Lifetime Achievement Awards, GDCA 2023.jpg won the Lifetime Achievement Award.]]
Nominees were announced on January 26, 2023.{{cite web|title= Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, Stray Lead Finalists for Game Developers Choice Awards |first= Ryan |last= Dinsdale |date= 27 January 2023 |work= IGN |language= en |url= https://www.ign.com/articles/elden-ring-god-of-war-ragnarok-stray-lead-finalists-for-game-developers-choice-awards |access-date= January 18, 2025 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250118162304/https://www.ign.com/articles/elden-ring-god-of-war-ragnarok-stray-lead-finalists-for-game-developers-choice-awards |archive-date= January 18, 2025 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |author1=Ozzie Mejia |title=Elden Ring & Stray lead Game Developers Choice Awards 2023 nominees |url=https://www.shacknews.com/article/133863/gdc-2023-award-nominees |website=Shacknews |date=January 26, 2023}} Winners (noted in bold below) were named on March 22, 2023, in a ceremony hosted by Leslee Sullivant at the Moscone Center.{{cite web |author1=Beth Elderkin |title='Elden Ring' Wins Game Of The Year At The 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards |url=https://gdconf.com/news/elden-ring-wins-game-year-2023-game-developers-choice-awards |website=Game Developers Choice Conference |date=March 22, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/elden-ring-named-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards/ |title=Elden Ring named Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards |last=Ivan |first=Tom |work=Video Games Chronicle |publisher=Gamer Network |date=March 23, 2023 |accessdate=March 24, 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.vg247.com/elden-ring-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards |title=Elden Ring wins Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards |last=Makar |first=Connor |work=VG247 |date=March 23, 2023 |accessdate=March 24, 2023 }}
=[[Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year|Game of the Year]]=
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Immortality (Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
- Tunic (TUNIC Team / Finji)
=Best Audio=
- God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders / Funcom)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
=Best Debut=
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
- NORCO (Geography of Robots / Raw Fury)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive)
- Tunic (TUNIC Team / Finji)
- Vampire Survivors (poncle)
=Best Design=
=Innovation Award=
- Immortality (Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment))
- Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
=Best Narrative=
=Best Technology=
- God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Beenox, Treyarch, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, Toys for Bob / Activision)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
=Best Visual Art=
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
=Social Impact Award=
- Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age / Fellow Traveller)
- As Dusk Falls (INTERIOR/NIGHT / Xbox Game Studios)
- Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios / HandyGames)
- I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games / Finji)
- OlliOlli World (Roll7 / Private Division)
- We Are OFK (Team OFK)
=Audience Award=
=Lifetime Achievement Award=
- John Romero, co-founder of id Software and Ion Storm, and co-creator of the Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake series{{cite web |author1=Brendan Sinclair |title=GDC Awards to honor Mabel Addis, John Romero |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-awards-to-honor-mabel-addis-john-romero |website=Gamesindustry |date=February 23, 2023}}
= The Pioneer Award =
- Mabel Addis (first female video game designer)
References
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External links
- [http://www.gamechoiceawards.com/winners/index.html Official website]
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