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DICE: LittleBigPlanet Wins Big at Interactive Achievement Awards

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DICE: LittleBigPlanet Wins Big at Interactive Achievement Awards
The D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas just finished presenting the 12th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, revealing a total of eight awards for the user-content focused LittleBigPlanet, including Overall Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Outstanding Innovation in Gaming and more.

Valve Software's Left 4 Dead and EA's Dead Space also won multiple awards. Left 4 Dead took home honors for Computer Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play. Dead Space won Action Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design.

Here's the complete winners list:

Overall Game of the Year
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Producer: Siobhan Reddy, Leo Cubbin
Game Director: Mark Healey, David Smith

Console Game of the Year
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Producer: Siobhan Reddy, Leo Cubbin
Game Director: Mark Healey, David Smith

Computer Game of the Year
Left 4 Dead
Publisher: Valve Software
Developer: Valve Software
Producer: Gabe Newell
Game Director: Mike Booth

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Creative Director: Mark Healey

Casual Game of the Year
Braid
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Number None
Producer: Kevin Hathaway
Game Director: Jonathan Blow

Fighting Game of the Year
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo, Hal Laboratory, Sora Ltd.
Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto
Game Director: Masahiro Sakurai

Handheld Game of the Year
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Developer: Ready at Dawn
Producer: Marc Turndorf, Eric Koch, Chad Cox
Game Director: Ru Weerasuriya
Lead Designer: Dana Jan

Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Producer: J. Allen Brack
Game Director: Jeff Kaplan

Cellular Game of the Year
Spore Origins
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Barbaraoga, Tricky Software
Producer: Mike Pagano

Role-Playing Game of the Year
Fallout 3
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Production Director: Ashley Cheng
Lead Producer: Gavin Carter
Game Director: Todd Howard
Lead Designer: Emil Pagliaruio

Racing Game of the Year
Burnout Paradise
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Criterion Games
Producer: Peter Hawley
Lead Designer: Alex Ward

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
World of Goo
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: 2D Boy
Lead Game Designer: Kyle Gabler

Adventure Game of the Year
Mirror's Edge
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment
Producer: Owen O'Brien
Game Director: Yoshiaki Koizumi
Creative Director: Shigeru Miyamoto

Sports Game of the Year
NHL 09
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Canada
Producer: David Littman
Game Director: Sam Ramjagsingh
Lead Designer: Matt Mahar

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Los Angeles
Producer: Chris Corry, Amer Ajami
Game Director: Jason Torres, Greg Black

Action Game of the Year
Dead Space
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Redwood Shores
Producer: Glen Schofield
Game Director: Bret Robbins

Family Game of the Year
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Producer: Siobhan Reddy, Leo Cubbin
Game Directors: Mark Healey, David Smith

Outstanding Achievement in Animation
Prince of Persia
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Lead Animator: David Wilkinson

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Art Director: Kareem Ettourney

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Technology Director : Alex Evans, David Smith

Outstanding Character Performance
LittleBigPlanet (Sackboy)
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Writer: Dean Wilkinson

Outstanding Achievement in Story -Adapted
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Publisher: LucasArts
Developer: LucasArts
Writer: Haden Blackman

Outstanding Achievement in Story - Original
Fallout 3
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Writer: Emil Pagliarulo

Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play
Left 4 Dead
Publisher: Valve Software
Developer: Valve Software
Lead Online Designer: Mike Booth

Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
LittleBigPlanet
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Developer: Media Molecule
Producers: Siobhan Reddy, Leo Cubbin
Game Director: Mark Healey

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Developer: Kojima Productions
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams

Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack
Rock Band 2
Publisher: MTV Games
Developer: Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
Music Supervisor: Paul DeGooyer, Eric Brosius

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
Dead Space
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Redwood Shores
Sound Designer: Don Veca

For more coverage, be sure to check out The DICE Wire, GameDaily's live blog covering the summit in Las Vegas all week. We'll be updating the blog frequently.

- GameDaily

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