No Man’s Sky, Battlefield 1, Overwatch and more take home GDC 2017 awards

With the Game Developers Conference wrapping up tomorrow, the Game Developer Choice Awards have gone out, giving developers more titles to add to their game. On top of the GDC Awards going oout, the Independent Game Festival (IGF) awarded some indie games with awards too!

During the GDC Award ceremony, No Man's Sky was awarded the 'Innovation Award,' however, no one was present to accept the award. It turns out that the Hello Games team was busy "eating dinner," because they didn't believe they would win the award.

 In addition to No Man's Sky, Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4 took an award for 'Best Technology,' Battlefield 1 won the 'Audience Award,' and Overwatch got the 'Game of the Year' award. 

Check out all the winners below:

GDC AWARD WINNERS

Best Debut

• Firewatch – Campo Santo

Best Audio 

• Inside – Playdead

Innovation Award 

• No Man’s Sky – Hello Games

Best Technology 

• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Naughty Dog

Best VR/AR 

• Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs

Best Visual Art 

• Inside – Playdead

Best Narrative

• Firewatch – Camp Santo

Best Design 

• Overwatch – Blizzard Entertainment

Best Mobile/Handheld Game 

• Pokémon Go – Niantic

Audience Award 

• Battlefield 1 – EA/DICE

Game of the Year 

• Overwatch – Blizzard Entertainment

IGF (Independent Games Festival) AWARD WINNERS

Best Student Game 

• Un Pas Fragile

Excellence in Visual Art 

• Hyper Light Drifter

Excellence in Audio 

• Gonner

Alt.Ctrl.GDC Award 

• Fear Sphere

Nuovo Award 

• Oikospiel Book I

Excellence in Design 

• Quadrilateral Cowboy

Excellence in Narrative 

• Ladykiller in a Bind

Audience Award 

Hyper Light Drifter

Seumas McNally Grand Prize 

Quadrilateral Cowboy