Overwatch Wins Game of the Year at GDC 2017

Quadrilateral Cowboy takes top honors at the Independent Game Festival Awards.

By Jonathon Dornbush

Overwatch has been named Game of the Year at the 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, while Quadrilateral Cowboy won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 19th annual Independent Games Festival.

Both award ceremonies were held tonight as part of GDC 2017, with Overwatch also winning Best Design and Playdead's Inside also picking up two awards. Overwatch was also awarded Game of the Year at the DICE Awards 2017 last week, while IGN also gave the Blizzard multiplayer shooter our Game of the Year honor for 2016.

Check out the full list of Game Developers Choice Awards winners below:

Best Audio Inside (Playdead)

Best Debut Campo Santo (Firewatch)

Best Design Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)

Best Mobile/Handheld Game Pokemon Go (Niantic)

Innovation Award No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Narrative Firewatch (Campo Santo)

Best Technology Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog)

Best Visual Art Inside (Playdead)

Best VR/AR Game Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives (Owlchemy Labs)

Audience Award Battlefield 1 (EA DICE)

Game of the Year Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)

Pioneer Award Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia creator)

Ambassador Award Mark DeLoura (formerly of Nintendo, Sony, THQ, and Ubisoft)

Lifetime Achievement Award Tim Sweeney (Epic Games founder)

At the IGF Awards, Quadrilateral Cowboy took home the Excellence in Design — for more on the game, check out our Quadrilateral Cowboy review. Hyper Light Drifter also won two awards. IGF winners are awarded cash prizes, represented below next to each award.

Find out the full list of winners below:

Excellence in Narrative ($3,000) Ladykiller in a Bind (Love Conquers All Games)

Excellence in Audio ($3,000) GoNNER (Art in Heart)

Excellence in Design ($3,000) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)

Excellence in Visual Art ($3,000) Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)

Nuovo Award ($5,000) Oiκοςpiel, Book I (David Kanaga)

Best Student Game ($3,000) Un Pas Fragile (Géraud de Courrèges, Alisée Preud'homme, Gregory Parisi, Gaspard Morel)

Audience Award ($3,000) Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)

alt.ctrl.GDC Award Fear Sphere (New Arcade)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($30,000) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)

Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.

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