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Along with all of the tech demonstrations, game announcements and hands-on demos, the Game Developers Conference also plays host to its annual awards show, which honors the games and game makers of the previous year. So, which game took home the preeeecious title of Game of the Year?

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Monolith Productions' Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor​ was awarded Game of the Year at the 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

Other nominees include Platinum Games' Bayonetta 2, Bungie's shared-world shooter Destiny, Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, and Hearthstone from Blizzard.

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Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison is reportedly resigning from the company after working there for three years.

This unconfirmed report comes by way of GamesIndustry, who claims several unnamed sources with inside information shared this news with the outlet at this year's Game Developers Conference. For those who don't know, Phil Harrison previously worked at other major gaming companies, including Atari, Gaikai, and Sony.

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Engadget: Among the handful of announcements Valve made at this year's Game Developers Conference was a subtle and hugely important one: Lighthouse. What in the world is Lighthouse? It's the "base stations" referenced in Valve's VR headset announcement, and it's even more important than the incredibly impressive headset. Valve president Gabe Newell compares it to USB and expects it to fundamentally change how people interact with virtual reality. "Now that we've got tracking, then you can do input," Newell said in an interview with Engadget this morning. "It's a tracking technology that allows you to track an arbitrary number of points, room-scale, at sub-millimeter accuracy 100 times a second."

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IGN: Speaking at the 2015 Game Developers Conference, Jason Scott of Internet Archive offered unique advice to a crowd of game industry professionals. "Steal from work," he joked. Workplace theft is the future of game history. Scott clarified that he wasn't advocating the pick-pocketing of intellectual property. Rather, he emphasized that important fragments of our video game heritage would have been lost without materials preserved by game company employees who took home mementos from their projects.

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After a rocky year for the industry this years Game Developers Choice and IGF winners received a deserved praise for their technical and artistic achievements.

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The 15th Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival Awards have just been held at GDC 2015 in San Francisco. After two hours of really atrocious jokes par for the course for every award ceremony (besides the one hinting to a hot night with Hironobu Sakaguchi. That one was funny), there finally is a winner.

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In case you missed it live, watch the replay of the 2015 Game Developers Choice Awards!

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In case you missed it live, watch the replay of the 2015 Game Developers Choice Awards!