Gears of War Scoops Up AIAS Awards

And Nintendo didn't do too badly either. Full results inside.

Capcom made little secret of its displeasure with the way the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences runs its awards show, but the show, as they do in these cases, went on anyway, and it was Microsoft's big Xbox 360 shooter that dominated the show.

The 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony, held in Las Vegas during this week's D.I.C.E. Summit and hosted by comedian Jay Mohr, honoured games and their creators in 30 categories. Gears of War walked away with eight of those, including overall Game of the Year, with the night's other big winner, Wii Sports, taking three.

The awards were in the news for all the wrong reasons this year after Capcom, maker of such hit 2006 releases as Dead Rising and Okami, decided against joining the AIAS and thus made its games ineligible for nomination.

The full list of winners in the various categories is below:

Game of the Year
• Overall: Gears of War
• Computer: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Console: Gears of War
• Handheld: Brain Age

• Outstanding Innovation In Gaming: Wii Sports

Outstanding Achievement
• Animation: Gears of War
• Art Direction: Gears of War
• Soundtrack: Guitar Hero 2
• Original Music Composition: LocoRoco
• Sound Design: Call of Duty 3
• Story and Character Development: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Game Play Engineering: Wii Sports
• Online Game Play: Gears of War
• Visual Engineering: Gears of War
• Game Design: Wii Sports

Outstanding Character Performance
• Male: Gears of War
• Female: Viva Pinata

Genre Awards
• Sports: Tony Hawk Project 8
• First-Person Action: Rainbow Six: Vegas
• RPG: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Fighting: Fight Night Round 3
• Action/Adventure: Gears of War
• Racing: Burnout Revenge
• Children's: LocoRoco
• Downloadable: Bookworm Adventures
• Family: Guitar Hero 2
• Simulation: Microsoft Flight Simulator X
• Strategy: Company of Heroes
• Massively Multiplayer/Persistent World: Guild Wars Nightfall
• Mobile: Orcs and Elves

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo