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Game Developers Choice Awards releases finalists

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Rounding out a long season of awards, the Game Developers Choice Awards announced its finalists for the best games of 2023.

The lead nominees for awards at the 24th annual event include The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cocoon. The nominations are peer-based awards decided by game developers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.