Develop Awards Winners: Sony Wins Publishing Hero, Mark Cerny Development Legend; Rockstar Triumphs

The ceremony for the 2014 Develop Awards has just concluded, and here's the full list of winners. PS4's happy father Mark Cerny won the Development Legend award as previously announced, while Shahid Ahmad's Sony Strategic Content Department brought home the "Publushing Hero" prize, while Rockstar North triumphed with three trophies for its accomplishments on Grand Theft Auto V.

Media Molecule also brought home the best new IP award for Tearaway, while Vlambeer, Bohemia Interactive and Space Ape Games won the remaining studio awards.

[-Foxtrot]

"Visual Arts"

"Use of Narrative"

"Studio of the Year"

I thought NaughtyDog would of won something...at least one of those. The Last of Us was a huge achievement for the gaming industry, even with Uncharted years ago. I think they've proved themselves these days

Studio of the Year...Rockstar despite their Online being broken as hell at launch.

[Abriael]

That's easy explained. The Develop Awards are only about UK and European devs :D

Naughty Dog isn't there simply because they don't qualify :D

[-Foxtrot]

Hmmm that's a shame, seems like they are missing out on some great devs.

If your doing awards like this then you really should be counting everyone in the gaming industry regardless what country they are based in.

[hkgamer]

@foxtrot

I'm guessing this conference is based solely for European developers. Sometimes it just makes it easier when you exclude the rest. Some development may just be concentrating on the eu market and don't want to be overshadowed by anything else.

Maybr leave that to bigger things like gdc.

[JBSleek]

You have to recognize where these awards actually take place. Also I would personally put Rockstar above Naughty Dog simply due to the scope and detail put into GTA.

TLOU is a masterpiece but from a gaming standpoint I can appreciate GTA more than I can TLOU, but ND should have absolutely won Use of Narrative.

I dare someone to show me a game with better narrative in recent years if at all.

[-Foxtrot]

"simply due to the scope and detail put into GTA"

Once you get past the hype, the same crap we all got sucked into with GTA4 you'll see that it's not as good as the hype made it out to be. Fantastic game but overhyped.

Take the top half of the map in GTAV...it felt empty at times. It was just huge countrysides and forests etc to give off the illusion that it was big in scope. What's the point of big if theres nothing much to do. Some things like oldschool GTA weapons and rampages aren't present in GTA and you would think with all the myths and legends we all came up with in past GTA games they would of included them for us to hunt down.

Big dosen't always mean better

The Last of Us was a new franchise, it changed things up compared to NaughtyDogs other games. At the end of the day GTA is...GTA, least you can give NaughtyDog brownie points for it being a new IP. Hey...least NaughtyDogs online was working from the start

[Ezz2013]

@JBSleek

ok, you are pissing me off right now

i want to agree and at the same time disagree with your comment .

http://img.pandawhale.com/4...

[Spotie]

Scope is irrelevant when they don't exactly so the best job at it.

I don't give a damn how big it is; if you can't do it without flaws and bugs and the like, don't do it.

[hkgamer]

@foxtrot

Not picking on you, just feel like I got something to say about your comments.

Gtaiv was a good game, was innovative with the mobile phone thing, though it did get annoying. Was a great game with a great story, my personal favourite. Added cover mechanics in an open world game.

I believe at that time it deserved those ratings. But sadly was a game that shows its age. Others have learnt the good and bad from it.

[Ezz2013]

After all the awards TLOU won beating every game in history ...including all Developers awards

let GTAV get at least something after all hehe

[JBSleek]

I do appreciate having these debates with you. Very intelligent.

[MightyNoX]

Cerny's awesome as usual.

Media Molecule getting recognition warms the heart.

[gamercologyst]

Congratulation to Mark Cerny

[showtimefolks]

Cerny deserves it, sony deserves it.

R* i also have no problem with. No doubt what ND achieved is a masterpiece but let's not also forget what R* were able to do on ps3/xbox 360

can't wait to replay both on ps4

[MasterCornholio]

Congrats Sony and Cerny.

:)

[hkgamer]

I strongly believe cerny and his ps4 speech last year was what Sony needed. Someone who looks and sounds honest and isn't a super bigtime ceo.

[jakmckratos]

Mark Cerny is also responsible for Knack. And Knack was not good.

[XtraTrstrL]

I cut him some slack for Knack. It seems like he was busy with the hardware/software while making Knack. He doesn't even seem to look at it as a crazy masterpiece of his when you hear him in interviews. He sees it as a fun quality platformer that's aimed more for family fun. It shows of some of the PS4's power and physics ability and nice performance for a cartoony game attempting a Pixar type of look & animation style.

I feel that if Cerny was to make a game now that he isn't as busy with other focuses, he'd do what he normally does - make a classic. He's the videogame world's King Midas, everything becomes gold once he touches it. Like I posted before, he works on a new game and forms A+ dev teams and then moves on to the next episode. So many classics came from his hands, Knack is not him at anywhere near full effort on a real next-gen title. I'll be looking out for whatever he does next, there should be no question on whether it's deserving of being stamped next-gen.

[XtraTrstrL]

Nice, alright, time to get back on a new game Mark, and spawn a new crazy 1st party dev team that'll continue on to make 9+ score games - like you've done over and over in the past.

[Rimeskeem]

Naughty Dog should have at least won best narrative

[strickers]

Best reader award