UK Video Game Awards - The Real Ones

The UK's video game industry awards have been handed out at the Develop Conference in glorious Brighton. These are the gongs given by developers to developers and deserve some respect, so put your trousers on, turn Jeremy Kyle off and take note.

To nobody's surprise - but ours^* - Grand Theft Auto IV swept up awards including, Visual Arts, Audio Accomplishment and Technical Innovation. We would have given Guildford-based Criterion Games at least one shout-out for Burnout Paradise, but maybe that's why we write about games instead of making them.

Nintendo also popped up with the Publishing Hero award. The company's David Tennant-a-like spokesperson, Rob Saunders, took the podium to accept that and expressed his opinion that Nintendo's Japanese developers were honoured to receive such recognition from their UK peers.

The awards are:

CREATIVITY
Best New IP:
Lost Winds (Frontier Developments)

Best Use of a Licence:
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

TECHNOLOGY
Tools Provider
Epic Games

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

Creative Outsourcing
Richard Jacques Studios

Richard Jacques Studio

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

STUDIOS
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

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Grand Prix
Rockstar Games


^{* Yes, we get the fact that we've just called ourselves nobodies. We are humble northern folk.}