As the Develop Conference winds down after some rather interesting opinions on the industry and industry trends, the awards were given out to games that showed exemplary achievement in design and concept production.
Big winners include Heavy Rain for Best New IP, Angry Birds on the iPhone for Best New Download IP, Arkham Asylum for Best Use of a License or IP, Split Second for Visual Arts and DJ Hero for Audio Accomplishment.
As for studio winners, Hello Games (Joe Danger) won both the Best New Studio and Micro Studio awards, SCE Cambridge (Little Big Planet PSP) took home the Handheld Studio award, Rocksteady (Arkham Asylum) won the In-House, and Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain) took home the Independent Studio award.
The Develop Awards also honored gaming engines, with The Unreal Engine winning the Engine award. Other winners included Unity Engine for Innovation, Hansoft for Tools Provider, Side for Audio Outsourcing and Axis Animation for Visual Outsourcing.
Besides the main awards, Develop also honored Jagex founders Andrew and Paul Gower (responsible for Runescape) with the Industry Legend prize. The two founded Jagex in 2001, and have been running Runescape ever since. The Gowers brothers took the awards time to announce the newest release from the studio, sci-fi MMO Stellar Dawn.
The full list of winners can be found at Develop.
