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Develop 08: Rockstar rocks award ceremony

Rockstar endowed with four gongs by UK industry magazine; Nintendo wins "publishing hero," Traveller's Tales best use of a license.

David Braben may have warned that the UK is the most expensive place in the world to make games, but this year's Develop awards showed that the country has no shortage of talent. Grand Theft Auto IV developer Rockstar North led the pack with awards for visuals, audio, and in-house development, and parent company Rockstar Games took the overall grand-prix prize. Other notable winners included best use of a license for Traveller's Tales with Lego Indiana Jones, and Nintendo won the publishing-hero award.

But it wasn't just the big players that went home with the gongs last night. Braben and his company Frontier Developments won best new IP for LostWinds, their WiiWare launch game. Best independent developer went to Splash Damage for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. And Richard Jacques Studios, which provided music for Mass Effect and the upcoming Battlestations: Pacific, won for best creative outsourcing.

The Develop awards are now in their sixth year and are presented at the Develop conference in Brighton. The awards are coordinated by the British magazine of the same name, and are voted for by an independent panel of industry experts.

The full list of winners is included below.

Best New IP
LostWinds (Frontier Developments)

Best Use of a License
Lego Indiana Jones (Traveller's Tales)

Visual Arts
Rockstar North (Grand Theft Auto IV)

Audio Accomplishment
Rockstar North (Grand Theft Auto IV)

Publishing Hero
Nintendo

Tools Provider
Epic Games

Technical Innovation
NaturalMotion / Image Metrics (Grand Theft Auto IV)

Creative Outsourcing
Richard Jacques Studios

Services
Babel Media

Recruitment Company
OPM

Games:Edu New Talent Award
University of Abertay & Dare to Be Digital

Business Development
Realtime Worlds

Best Mobile Studio
Ideaworks3D

Best In-House Developer
Rockstar North

Best New UK/European Studio
Doublesix

Best Independent Developer
Splash Damage

Grand Prix
Rockstar Games

44 Comments

  • dogymik7

    Posted Aug 19, 2008 9:38 am PT

    GTAIV has amazing visuals and ragdoll effects xD i mean i dink it deserves like a 9.5 i could have done better in a few sections

  • Grantsplace2004

    Posted Aug 10, 2008 6:16 pm PT

    GTA 4 was overrated, still worthy of a 9 something though. Whats really got me is why Nintendo is publishing hero? Whats the criteria for that?

  • ps3thabest

    Posted Aug 4, 2008 9:33 am PT

    @TheRoshow i agree, but gta san andreas deserved a 10/10 gta4 was way overrated.

  • tawagivercetti

    Posted Aug 4, 2008 2:19 am PT

    Kudos to GTA IV a fine piece of Art

  • TheRoshow

    Posted Aug 3, 2008 5:32 pm PT

    Rockstar Games should be ashamed of them selfs. 10/10? I don't think so!!! After playing (Saints Row) I see GTA4 could have been much better but that did a piss pore Job on produceing a Great game? After all of the hype, after all that talk, after all that wait this is what Rock Star give us? GTA4 is nothing more then GTA Liberty Ciry Stories. With better graphics and a few more extras.. If that's the case why can't we just get GTA SA with better Graphics and a few more extras? Then maybe that would be worth a 10/10, but everybody is so so so in love with GTA for so so so mini years that up and coming GTA style games like Saint Row can't get a chance when they are clearly much better.

    Rock Star Games don't even read the Fan mail of ideas for the next game maybe that's why GTA4 sucked giant monkey balls!! Long as it took to make this game that could have did so much more but just because they won't to have something to bate us gamers in for the next game, that did a half a** job on this one and paid for good rateing like a fake 10/10.
    Saint Row is the new GTA everybody that buys Saints Row 2 will forget all about GTA. Hell buy Saints Row 1 cause it's better then GTA4..

  • Pete5506

    Posted Aug 3, 2008 5:04 pm PT

    GTA IV was fun, but not a 10

  • SkillGamer

    Posted Aug 3, 2008 3:04 pm PT

    GTA4 diservs every single reward because i though gta4 would get like a 9.6 or would bomb!!!!!!!!!!! but got a 10 and i think its worth it. other people who hate ti becuz it violent or its better or got better score then the games they like those people are jelous gta4 is awsome cant wait for 5 good job rockstargames

  • Ardiendo_1

    Posted Aug 2, 2008 4:58 pm PT

    Lol Grand Prix means 'Big/Great Prize' so 'Grand Prix Prize' makes no sense.

  • hannify

    Posted Aug 2, 2008 4:50 am PT

    GTAIV was a big dissapoint for me. It does make me proud that it was made by a british game developer but going on the success of its name was truly what it was about and perhaps it was too americanized.

    I just hope this autumn the DCL will do some new awsomeness.

  • Wej_accept_it

    Posted Aug 1, 2008 5:01 pm PT

    GTA4 deserves every single bit of awesome attention it gets. Its still, argueably, one of the greatest games ever made. The only title around currently that draws level with it is MGS4, that damn simple.

  • TrapInNewYork

    Posted Aug 1, 2008 3:21 am PT

    I CAN"T WAIT UNTILL THIS COMES OUT!! Parachuting is going to be great. Driving the tank and running from the Army to. Yeah I can't wait to do all that.

  • Hesam_Titan

    Posted Aug 1, 2008 12:15 am PT

    Hi guys
    I always love bio ware and i always play any game for this company
    I very like mass effect and i use patch. thank you for all people in bio ware company thank you
    hesam

  • CrazyRabbi

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 11:56 pm PT

    Nobody on my friends list even plays this anymore.

  • Jaz0

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 9:29 pm PT

    wow..i dont think its THAT good...its getting WAY to much attention it doesnt deserve...

  • bluepharoh

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 8:01 pm PT

    I don't get it, obviously people who say GTA IV is the best game ever or even GOTY haven't played the previous GTA games. Beyond the story and graphics GTA IV is empty. Not to mention it has the worst driving physics out of any game I have ever played. The only award I give GTA IV is the biggest disappointment of the year. Seriously, I played through it once and have never had the urge to pick it up again. What is the point of mentioning awards for a year that is only half over, with the titles coming this fall GTA IV will be a forgotten memory.

  • BoaMo121

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 7:12 pm PT

    Well done Rockstar but Konami dserves more than a little respect for MGS4.

  • -HaloHitman-

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 5:01 pm PT

    Gta IV is one of the best games out there.

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