Hosted by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, the 17th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards will take place on Wednesday, March 1 at 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET at the San Francisco Moscone Center during the 2017 Game Developers Conference. If you can’t attend GDC 2017, the awards show will be livestreamed on Twitch.
The nominees were revealed today, and Playdead’s Inside received six nominations, Overwatch and Firewatch tied with five nominations each, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is nominated in four different categories. All four of these games, as well as Dishonored 2, are up for Game of the Year.
Here’s the full list of nominees for the GDC 2017 Choice Awards:
Best Audio

Battlefield 1 (EA DICE/Electronic Arts)
Thumper (Drool)
DOOM (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
Inside (Playdead)
Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Best Debut

Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter)
Campo Santo (Firewatch)
ConcernedApe (Stardew Valley)
Drool (Thumper)
Night School Studio (Oxenfree)

Best Design

Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Dishonored 2 (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
The Witness (Thekla)
Inside (Playdead)
DOOM (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)

Best Mobile/Handheld Game

Super Mario Run (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Clash Royale (Supercell)
Pokémon Go (Niantic)
Reigns (Nerial/Devolver Digital)
Pokémon Sun/Moon (Game Freak/The Pokémon Company)

Innovation Award

The Witness (Thekla)
Inside (Playdead)
No Man?s Sky (Hello Games)
Firewatch (Campo Santo/Panic)
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