The 3rd Annual ELAN Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts took place this weekend past in Vancouver, Canada.
The evening was attended by 400 of the best from Video Game, Animation and Visual Effects, including Microsoft Game's Global Product Manager Guy Welch, who brought with him Ross Perez, Senior Producer of their nominated game Gears of War 2.
Also accompanying Welch was Rich Bryant, writer for another of their nominated games, Fable II from Developer Lionhead Studios. Chet Faliszek and Heather Fagan from Valve Software flew in and managed to walk away with four of the nine video game awards. The final results are as follows:
Video game of the year
Left 4 Dead
Valve
Best console game
Fallout 3
Bethesda Softworks
Best PC game
Left 4 Dead
Valve
Best casual/arcade game
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
Big Fish Games
Best mobile/handheld game
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
1st Playable Productios/Disney Interactive
Best sound in a video game production
Gears of War 2
Epic Games, Microsoft
Best art direction
Fallout 3
Bethesda Softworks
Best game design
Left 4 Dead
Valve
Outstanding technical innovation
Left 4 Dead
Valve
