2010 Nominees
The Best Online Game Design Award
The Best Online Game Design Award honors the overall excellence of design in an online game that launched in public beta or full version in the year to May 2010. This category recognizes the best social-specific gameplay mechanics, quest design, and other major game design elements.
We Rule (Newtoy/Ngmoco)
Champions Online (Cryptic)
Zoo Kingdom (Blue Fang)
Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
The Best Online Visual Arts Award
The Best Online Visual Arts Award recognizes the overall excellence of visual art in online games that launched in the 12 months to May 2010 - including, but not limited to, character and animation design, interface design, and 2D or 3D art creation and direction of all kinds.
GodFinger (Wonderland Software/Ngmoco)
Papermint (Avaloop)
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
Star Trek Online (Cryptic)
Love (Quel Solaar)
The Best Community Relations Award
The Best Community Relations Award honors the currently operating online game that provides the highest quality community feedback and experience, including customer support, forum moderation and leadership, weblog and information updates, real-life events, and other community outreach.
Wizard101 (KingsIsle Entertainment)
Free Realms (Sony Online Entertainment)
EVE Online (CCP)
Guild Wars (ArenaNet)
World Of WarCraft (Blizzard)
The Best Online Technology Award
The Best Online Technology Award recognizes the overall excellence of technology in an online game that launched in the 12 months to May 2010. This includes excellence in complexity of network infrastructure, persistent world coding, graphics technology, artificial intelligence, or any other elements.
Global Agenda (Hi-Rez)
Aion (NCSoft)
Love (Quel Solaar)
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
Champions Online (Cryptic)
The Best Social Network Game Award
The Best Social Network Game Award recognizes the best game that launched on a social network such as Facebook or MySpace in open beta or full version in the year to May 2010, honoring the most outstanding title in terms of overall depth, execution and quality in the space.
Nightclub City (Booyah)
NanoStar Siege (Digital Chocolate)
FIFA Superstars (Playfish)
Social City (Playdom)
Treasure Isle (Zynga)
The Best Audio for an Online Game Award
The Best Audio for an Online Game Award recognizes the overall excellence of audio in an online game that launched in the 12 months to May 2010 - including sound effects, musical composition, and overall sound design for an online title.
Nightclub City (Booyah)
Champions Online (Cryptic)
We Rule (Newtoy/Ngmoco)
Music Pets (Conduit Labs)
Aion (NCSoft)
The Best New Online Game Award
The Best New Online Game Award recognizes excellence in any online-specific game, including MMOs, free to play titles and social network games that launched to the public in open beta or full versions in the twelve months ending May 2010.
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
We Rule (Newtoy/Ngmoco)
FIFA Superstars (Playfish)
Nightclub City (Booyah)
The Best Live Game Award
The Best Live Game Award recognizes the best currently-operating online game, having been launched in North America for at least 12 months (before May 2009), and distinguishing itself by that exceptional new content through expansion packs, patches, or other updates in the last 12 months, as well as a vibrant player community, high-quality community management and network operation during that period.
EVE Online (CCP)
World Of WarCraft (Blizzard)
Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
Farmville (Zynga)
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
The Audience Award
The Audience Award honors the favorite game of the worldwide online game community. Members of the public will be able to vote on their favorite currently operating online game, with options from the Game Developers Choice Online finalists and beyond. Audience Award winner to be voted on mid-September and announced at the Choice Online Award ceremony Oct 7, 2010.
