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title: "GDC 2018 – BOTW won 3 awards!"
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description: "Nintendo’s groundbreaking open-world role-playing game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, was honored with the prize for Game of the Year at the 18th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) ceremony during the 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC)"
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GDC 2018 - BOTW won 3 awards! | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![GDC 2018 – BOTW won 3 awards!](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/gdc-2018-botw-won-3-awards.jpg "GDC 2018 – BOTW won 3 awards!")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/gdc-2018-botw-won-3-awards.jpg)Nintendo’s groundbreaking open-world role-playing game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, was honored with the prize for Game of the Year at the 18th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) ceremony during the 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

The game’s expansive sound and deep, open-ended gameplay also earned The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild the awards for Best Audio and Best Design.

An archive of the award ceremony, as well as the full presentation of the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGF Awards), can be viewed at <http://twitch.tv/gdc>

## [](#the-game-developers-choice-awards-winners)The Game Developers Choice Awards winners

**Best Audio**
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
 **Best Debut**
 Studio MDHR (Cuphead)
 **Best Design**
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
 **Best Mobile Game**
Gorogoa (Jason Roberts/Buried Signal)
 **Innovation Award**
Gorogoa (Jason Roberts/Buried Signal)
 **Best Narrative**
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow)
 **Best Technology**
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
 **Best Visual Art**
Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
 **Best VR/AR Game**
 SUPERHOT VR (The SUPERHOT Team)
 **Audience Award**
NieR:Automata (PlatinumGames)
 **Game of the Year**
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
 **Ambassador Award**
 Rami Ismail
 **Lifetime Achievement Award**
 Tim Schafer

For more information about the 18th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, please visit the official website at <http://www.gamechoiceawards.com>. For information about the 2018 Game Developers Conference, please visit the official website at <http://www.gdconf.com>

Well The Legend of Zelda – Breath of the Wild remains a game in a class of it’s own. It is going to be one hell of a challenge for a new Zelda-title to live up to it … and even improve on it. But if one company can amaze, it is sure to be Nintendo!

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