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Rockstar Sweeps Develop Awards

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By Joe Keiser

July 31, 2008

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Rockstar Games has taken a plurality of the awards at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards, according to a statement made by the Develop Conference organizers Thursday.

The company won four awards, the most of the night, including a special grand prix award for competing most to the medium in 2008. Rockstar also took the best in-house developer award, and the visual arts and audio accomplishments awards for work on Grand Theft Auto IV.

Other winners at “Europe’s only awards ceremony dedicated to games developers” included Frontier Developments, which took the best new IP category for LostWinds. Traveller’s Tales won best use of a license for Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, and Nintendo was awarded best publisher.

Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds also received the business development award at the ceremony. The company’s CEO, David Jones, said in a separate statement, “We’re delighted to receive such an accolade. We’ve accomplished an incredible amount in the last 12 months but it’s often easy to overlook ‘business development’ success before the results are apparent.”

The full results from the announcements are below:

Creativity

Best New IP:
Lost Winds (Frontier Developments)

Best Use of a Licence:
Lego Indiana Jones (Traveller's Tales)

Visual Arts:
Rockstar North (Grand Theft Auto IV)

Audio Accomplishment:
Rockstar North (Grand Theft Auto IV)

Publishing Hero:
Nintendo

Technology

Tools Provider
Epic Games

Technical Innovation
NaturalMotion / Image Metrics (Grand Theft Auto IV)

Creative Outsourcing
Richard Jacques Studios

Richard Jacques Studio

Games:Edu New Talent Award
University of Abertay & Dare to be Digital

Studios

Business Development
Realtime Worlds

Best Mobile Studio
Ideaworks3D

Best In-House Developer
Rockstar North

Best New UK/European Studio
Doublesix

Best Independent Developer
Splash Damage

Special Recognition

Grand Prix
Rockstar Games