14th Annual

Interactive
Achievement
Awards

The 14th Annual Interactive

Achievement Awards is the 14th
edition of the Interactive
Achievement Awards, an annual
awards event that honors the best
games in the video game industry.
The awards are arranged by the
Academy of Interactive Arts &
Sciences (AIAS), and were held at
the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa
in Las Vegas, Nevada on
February 11, 2011. It was also held
as part of the academy's 2011
D.I.C.E. Summit, and was hosted by
stand-up comedian Jay Mohr.[1]

14th Annual Interactive Achievement

Awards

Date February 11, 2011

Venue Red Rock Casino,

Resort & Spa
 Resort & Spa

Country Las Vegas,

Nevada, USA

Hosted by Jay Mohr

Highlights

Most awards Red Dead

Redemption (5)

Most nominations Red Dead

Redemption (9)

Overall Game of Mass Effect 2

the Year
Hall of Fame Ray Muzyka &
Greg Zeschuk

Lifetime Bing Gordon

Achievement
Pioneer Bill Budge

Mass Effect 2 won Game of the

Year, while Red Dead Redemption
received the most nominations and
won the most awards. Electronic
Arts, Rockstar San Diego, and Sony
Computer Entertainment were tied
with winning the most awards, with
Sony receiving the most
nominations.

BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka &

Greg Zeschuk, both received the
Academy of Interactive Arts &
Sciences Hall of Fame Award. Bing
Gordon, former Chief Creative
Officer of Electronic Arts received
the Lifetime Achievement Award. Bill
Budge, a game designer for the
Apple II, received of the Pioneer
Award.[2]

Winners and Nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted
in boldface, and indicated with a
double dagger (‡).

Game of the Year Awards

 Game of the Year
Mass Effect 2 — BioWare, Electronic Arts‡
Angry Birds HD — Rovio Entertainment, Chillingo

Call of Duty: Black Ops — Treyarch, Activision

God of War III — SCE Santa Monica Studio

Red Dead Redemption — Rockstar San Diego

Portable Game of the Year Outstanding Innovation in Gaming

God of War: Ghost of Sparta — Heavy Rain — Quantic Dream,
Ready at Dawn, Sony Computer Sony Computer Entertainment‡
Entertainment‡ Angry Birds HD — Rovio
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of Entertainment, Chillingo
the Starry Skies — Level-5,
Dance Central — Harmonix,
Square Enix, Nintendo
MTV Games
Infinity Blade — Chair
Limbo — Playdead, Microsoft
Entertainment, Epic Games
Game Studios
Professor Layton and the
Red Dead Redemption —
Unwound Future — Level-5,
Rockstar San Diego
Nintendo

Valkyria Chronicles II — Sega

Craft Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
Red Dead Redemption — Rockstar San Diego‡
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood — Ubisoft Montreal

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West — Ninja Theory, Namco Bandai Games

Limbo — Playdead, Microsoft Game Studios

Mass Effect 2 — BioWare, Electronic Arts

 Outstanding Achievement in
Animation
God of War III — SCE Santa Monica
Studio‡
Call of Duty: Black Ops —
Treyarch, Activision
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
— Ninja Theory, Namco Bandai
Games
Red Dead Redemption —
Rockstar San Diego
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell:
Conviction — Ubisoft Montreal
Outstanding Character Performance
Rob Wiethoff as John Marston
(Red Dead Redemption) —
Rockstar San Diego‡
Andy Serkis as Monkey
(Enslaved: Odyssey to the
West) — Ninja Theory, Namco
Bandai Games
Terrence C. Carson as Kratos
(God of War III) — SCE Santa
Monica Studio
Mark Meer as Male
Commander Shepard (Mass
Effect 2) — BioWare, Electronic
Arts
Neil Kaplan as Tychus Findlay
(StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty)
Outstanding Achievement in Art
Direction
Red Dead Redemption — Rockstar
San Diego‡
Alan Wake — Remedy
Entertainment, Microsoft Game
Studios
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
— Ninja Theory, Namco Bandai
Games
God of War III — SCE Santa
Monica Studio
Kirby's Epic Yarn — Good-Feel,
Nintendo
Outstanding Achievement in
Gameplay Engineering
Red Dead Redemption — Rockstar
San Diego‡
Dance Central — Harmonix,
MTV Games
Kirby's Epic Yarn — Good-Feel,
Nintendo
Super Mario Galaxy 2 —
Nintendo EAD
Super Scribblenauts — 5th
Cell, Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment
 — Blizzard Entertainment
Outstanding Achievement in Online Outstanding Achievement in Original
Gameplay
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty —
Blizzard Entertainment‡
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
— Ubisoft Montreal
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 —
DICE, Electronic Arts
Call of Duty: Black Ops —
Treyarch, Activision
Halo: Reach — Bungie,
Microsoft Game Studios
Outstanding Achievement in
Soundtrack
Rock Band 3 — Harmonix, MTV
Games‡
Dance Central — Harmonix,
MTV Games
DJ Hero 2 — FreeStyleGames,
Activision
Gran Turismo 5 — Polyphony
Digital, Sony Computer
Entertainment
Outstanding Achievement in Story
Mass Effect 2 — BioWare,
Electronic Arts‡
Alan Wake — Remedy
Entertainment, Microsoft Game
Music Composition
Heavy Rain — Quantic Dream,
Sony Computer Entertainment‡
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
— Ubisoft Montreal
Fable III — Lionhead Studios,
Microsoft Game Studios
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty —
Blizzard Entertainment
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
— Blizzard Entertainment
Outstanding Achievement in Sound
Design
Limbo — Playdead, Microsoft
Game Studios‡
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
— Ubisoft Montreal
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 —
DICE, Electronic Arts
Medal of Honor — Danger
Close Games, DICE, Electronic
Arts
Red Dead Redemption —
Rockstar San Diego
Outstanding Achievement in Visual
Engineering
Heavy Rain — Quantic Dream,
Sony Computer Entertainment‡
Call of Duty: Black Ops —
 Studios
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
— Ninja Theory, Namco Bandai
Games
Heavy Rain — Quantic Dream,
Sony Computer Entertainment
Metro 2033 — 4A Games, THQ
Genre Awards
Action Game of the Year
Red Dead Redemption — Rockstar
San Diego‡
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 —
DICE, Electronic Arts
Call of Duty: Black Ops —
Treyarch, Activision
God of War III — SCE Santa
Monica Studio
Halo: Reach — Bungie,
Microsoft Game Studios
Casual Game of the Year
Angry Birds HD — Rovio
Entertainment, Chillingo‡
Bejeweled 3 — PopCap Games
Kinect Sports — Rare,
Treyarch, Activision
God of War III — SCE Santa
Monica Studio
Medal of Honor — Danger
Close Games, DICE, Electronic
Arts
Metro 2033 — 4A Games, THQ
Adventure Game of the Year
Limbo — Playdead, Microsoft
Game Studios‡
Alan Wake — Remedy
Entertainment, Microsoft Game
Studios
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
— Ubisoft Montreal
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
— Ninja Theory, Namco Bandai
Games
Heavy Rain — Quantic Dream,
Sony Computer Entertainment
Social Networking Game of the Year
CityVille — Zynga‡
Family Feud — Backstage
Technologies
FrontierVille — Zynga
 Microsoft Game Studios
Pac-Man Championship Edition
DX — Namco Bandai Games
Plants vs. Zombies — PopCap
Games
Family Game of the Year
Dance Central — Harmonix, MTV
Games‡
Kirby's Epic Yarn — Good-Feel,
Nintendo
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 —
Traveller's Tales, Warner Bros.
Interactive Entertainment
Rock Band 3 — Harmonix, MTV
Games
SingStar Dance — SCE London
Studio
Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer
Game of the Year
Mass Effect 2 — BioWare,
Electronic Arts‡
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of
the Starry Skies — Level-5,
Square Enix, Nintendo
Fable III — Lionhead Studios,
Microsoft Game Studios
Fallout: New Vegas — Obsidian
Entertainment, Bethesda
Softworks
Nightclub City — Booyah
Ravenwood Fair — Lolapps
Fighting Game of the Year
Super Street Fighter IV — Dimps,
Capcom‡
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift —
Arc System Works, Aksys
Games
EA Sports MMA — EA Tiburon
UFC 2010 — Yuke's, THQ
Racing Game of the Year
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit —
Criterion Games, Electronic Arts‡
Gran Turismo 5 — Polyphony
Digital, Sony Computer
Entertainment
ModNation Racers — United
Front Games, SCE San Diego
Studio
Split/Second — Black Rock
Studio, Disney Interactive
 World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
— Blizzard Entertainment

Sports Game of the Year Strategy/Simulation Game of the

FIFA 11 — EA Canada‡
MLB 10: The Show — SCE San
Diego
NBA 2K11 — Visual Concepts,
2K Games
NHL 11 — EA Canada
Year
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty —
Blizzard Entertainment‡
Civilization V — Firaxis Games,
2K Games
Supreme Commander 2 — Gas
Powered Games, Square Enix

Toy Soldiers — Signal Studios,

Microsoft Game Studios

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of

War II - Chaos Rising — Relic
Entertainment, THQ

Special Awards

Hall of Fame

Ray Muzyka
Greg Zeschuk
Lifetime Achievement
 Bing Gordon
Pioneer

Bill Budge

Games with multiple

nominations and awards

The following 23 games received

multiple nominations:
Nominations Game

9 Red Dead Redemption

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

6
God of War III

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Call of Duty: Black Ops

5
Heavy Rain

Mass Effect 2

Dance Central

4 Limbo

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Alan Wake

Angry Birds HD
3
Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

Fable III

Gran Turismo 5

Halo: Reach
2
Medal of Honor

Metro 2033

Rock Band 3

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

The following five games received
multiple awards:

Awards Game

5 Red Dead Redemption

Heavy Rain
3
Mass Effect 2

Limbo
2
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Companies with multiple

nominations

Companies that received multiple

nominations as either a developer or
a publisher.

Nominations Game
17 Sony Computer Entertainment

14 Electronic Arts

13 Microsoft Game Studios

9 Rockstar San Diego

Namco Bandai Games

7
Nintendo

Activision

Blizzard Entertainment

Harmonix
6
MTV Games

Ninja Theory

Ubisoft Montreal

BioWare

DICE
5
Quantic Dream

Treyarch

Playdead
4
THQ

Chillingo

Good-Feel

Level-5
3
Remedy Entertainment

Rovio Entertainment

Square Enix

2K Games

4A Games
 Bungie

Danger Close Games

2
Lionhead Studios

Polyphony Digital

PopCap Games

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Zynga

Companies that received multiple

awards as either a developer or a
publisher.
Awards Game

Electronic Arts

5 Rockstar San Diego

Sony Computer Entertainment

BioWare
3
Quantic Dream

Blizzard Entertainment

Harmonix

2 Microsoft Game Studios

MTV Games

Playdead

External links
Official website (https://www.inte
ractive.org/awards/2011_14th_aw
ards.asp)

References
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https://www.gamespot.com/articl
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GameSpot. Retrieved 13 June
2022.
2. "Academy of Interactive Arts &
Sciences Special Awards" (https://
www.interactive.org/special_awar
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Academy of Interactive Arts &
Sciences. Retrieved 11 June 2022.

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