Super Mario Galaxy gets a few GDCA nods

GO GALAXY!!!!!

My own meaningless picks:

Best Game Design: Super Mario Galaxy- This had amazing level design all the way through. Portal is a lot of fun, but even they have to admit that they could have come up with more variations.

Best Visual Art: Assassin's Creed- absolutely beautiful, even if the gameplay was boring and the control system so-so. I didn't play Crysis or Uncharted. Bioshock was pretty but a bit boring visually by the end.

Best Technology- Halo 3 multiplayer is the best in-game technology as it works pretty well and you can play in lots of different combos.

Best Writing- People will pick Bioshock, but I liked Mass Effect better. Portal deserves all the kudos too for a perfect, simple concept. GoW2? Not a chance.

Best Audio: Mass Effect for their great voice-acting. Bioshock for atmosphere. CoD4 was great, but not as good.

Innovation- Portal. Didn't play flOw though.

Game of the Year- Tougher. All are good although I still think SMG is the best.

Portal will probably win design, but Mario all the way for GotY

Isn't Halo 3 up for Game of the Year? And I thought Bioshock already won GotY, or was that from some other group?

Portal, SMG, Bioshock, and Halo 3 are my nominations for Game of the Year.
You can tell how much I love Portal by looking at my avatar.

I don't know about Game Design, I think that belongs to Portal or Bioshock. But yeah Galaxy, definitely Game of the Year.

Oh yeah, will a Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack ever reach the U.S.? Because that also had great music.

ummmm.....can we mention when the winners will be announced when giving us this info?

I wouldn't vote for Galaxy. It got to be pretty unbearable and I'm preeeetty sure it gave me ulcers, or maybe the start of an aneurysm. But to be fair, I played through it twice over the course of a week and a half and everything wrong with it kind of punched me in the face.

It's a shame to not see SMG nominated for Innovation, i thought the game was tremendously innovative. Much more so than Rock Band and Mass Effect, anyway.

I'm not sure it is healthy, the amount of love I have for Portal...I love SMG, don't get me wrong....but Portal....I mean, between the game design, the cake, the song, the computer's lovely encouragement....level 19, I mean, I need to check and see if there is a portalfanboy.com...