'Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor' Wins Game Of The Year At 2015 GDC Awards: Monolith Takes Home GOTY Prize At 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Ceremony

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor took home the Game of the Year award this year at the 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, beating out other popular titles like Destiny, Bayonetta 2, Alien: Isolation and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Meanwhile, Monument Valley from developer Ustwo swept the categories it was nominated for, coming out the big winner this year. Check out the list of winner's from the 2015 video game awards ceremony below!

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Check out a gameplay video of the GOTY winner right here to get a clue as to why it took home the top prize this year:

Here is a list of the nominees and winners from this week's GDC Awards (via IGN):

Game of the Year

•  Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
•  Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
•  Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
•  Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
•  Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Innovation Award

•  Bounden (Game Oven)
•  Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
•  This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
•  The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
•  Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Best Debut

•  Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
•  Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
•  The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
•  Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
•  Upper One Games (Never Alone)

Best Design

•  Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
•  Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
•  Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
•  Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)
•  Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

•  Threes! (Sirvo)
•  Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco/Nintendo)
•  Hearthstone (Blizzard)
•  80 Days (Inkle Studios)
•  Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Best Visual Art

•  Monument Valley (Ustwo)
•  Hohokum (Honeyslug and Richard Hogg/Sony)
•  Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
•  Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
•  Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Best Narrative

•  80 Days (Inkle Studios)
•  This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
•  Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
•  Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
•  The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Best Audio

•  Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
•  Hohokum (Honeyslug and Richard Hogg/Sony)
•  Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
•  Transistor (Supergiant Games)
•  The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Best Technology

•  Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
•  Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
•  Wolfenstein: The New Order (MachineGames/Bethesda)
•  Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
•  Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)