Assassin's Creed 2, Dragon Age: Origins win Canadian game awards

by David Hinkle on May 6th 2010 5:00PM

We like to playfully rip on Canada every now and then (America's hat!), but we must admit that The Great White North knows how to make some quality games, evidenced by the winners at the inaugural Canadian Videogame Awards ceremony. While Game of the Year went to Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2 made out with the most awards, winning Best Console Game, Best Visual Arts, and Best Game Design, and sharing the award for Best Technology with Radical Entertainment's Prototype.

That's not to say all of the awards went to the triple-A titles, as Toronto's own darling, Capybara Games, received nods for two of its titles: Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, which won Best Handheld Game, and Critter Crunch, which secured victory as the Best Downloadable Game. Maybe now that cute little guy will stop crying so much!

[Thanks, Alan Strangis]

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Tags: Apple, assassins-creed, assassins-creed-2, bioware, canada, canadian-videogame-awards, Capy, Capybara-Games, Critter-Crunch, dragon-age, dragon-age-origins, iPod, might-and-magic-clash-of-heroes, prototype, PSN, Puzzle, radical, radical-entertainment, ubisoft

Reader Comments (21)

Canadians are awesome D:

....... at hockey.

at life

Wow, AC2 got a ton of awards. Nice work!

As a brit can someone explain to me the history behind making fun of Canada?

Jealousy?

Americans don't like that we are talented and kind so they attempt to bring us down.

we've all got goofy accents and live in igloos eh, ar bacon ain't bad neither.

And we throw our Tim Hortons timbits at all the reindeer that walk around our villages.

It's a good hearted Joshing. You know, like the Australians and the Kiwis or the Swedes and the Norwegians.

Seething hate for the country that took the gold in sudden death!

@ Petebot, I thought it might be that, but I can't think of hearing it the other way round.

Well, we make fun of them for being nearly insignificant, cold, clean, and very similar to america but not quite as successful, and they make fun of us for being obnoxious and having too much crime. Or something.

They don't go to war all the time so we look at them as being wimps. Also, see "Canadian Bacon".

i love critter crunch

yes.

"sharing the award for Best Technology with Radical Entertainment's Prototype."

I was unaware Prototype had some special technology involved... Game looked like poo to me. Unless they mean fictional technology involved in the story. If thats the case than I guess the animus and the... whatever it was in Prototype... can share that award.