LittleBigPlanet Dominates Interactive Achievement Awards (8!)

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LittleBigPlanet Dominates Interactive Achievement Awards
Gaming's Oscars sees Alex Evans and company take home eight awards, including Game of the Year.

In an evening honoring 2008's top games on the third day of the D.I.C.E Summit, we got to see a lot of Media Molecule's Alex Evans. He and the rest of his team were in understandably good spirits too, as his Little Big Planet took home eight awards at the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, including the Overall Game of the Year.
Richard Garriot was on hand to present the award to Evans, who had already thanked everybody he could think of in previous trips to the stage for Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Console Game of the Year and other awards.

"It's the best blank CD we ever made," Evans said after he accepted his first award of the night for Family Game of the Year.

Other notable award winners included Dead Space, Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead, which all received two awards apiece. The hard working team at 2D Boy also picked up an Outstanding Achievement in Game Design for World of Goo. Ensemble Studio's Bruce Campbell Shelley, meanwhile, was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, and he couldn't resist a quick dig at his current status, with Ensemble having been shut down following the completion of Halo Wars.

"Thirty years have passed, I still don't have a real job," Shelley said. "And that's literally true today."

For those who missed the show, a full list of award winners follows below.

• Overall Game of the Year
• Little Big Planet
  
  Console Game of the Year
• Little Big Planet
  
  Family Game of the Year
• Little Big Planet
  
  Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
• Little Big Planet
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
• Little Big Planet
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering
• Little Big Planet
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
• Little Big Planet
  
  Outstanding Character Performance
• Little Big Planet - Sackboy
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
  
  Handheld Game of the Year
• God of War: Chains of Olympus
  
  Racing Game of the Year
• Burnout Paradise
  
  Action Game of the Year
• Dead Space
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
• Dead Space
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Animation
• Prince of Persia
  
  Adventure Game of the Year
• Mirror's Edge
  
  Sports Game of the Year
• NHL 09
  
  Strategy and Simulation Game of the Year
• Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Adapted Story
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Original Story
• Fallout 3
  
  RPG of the Year
• Fallout 3
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack
• Rock Band 2
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering
• Spore
  
  Hall of Fame
• Bruce Campbell Shelley
  
  Computer Game of the Year
• Left 4 Dead
  
  Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year
• World of WarCraft: Wrath of the Lich King
  
  Fighting Game of the Year
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay
• Left 4 Dead
  
  Cellular Game of the Year
• Spore Origins
  
  Casual Game of the Year
• Braid
  
  Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
• World of Goo