Award season is upon us for 2007 titles! The 2nd Annual Elans, the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts, recently announced the winners for their wide range of game and animation categories divided by commercial titles and student projects. Awards covered everything from writing to design to art to music.

The event kicked off with host Seth MacFarlane, best known for Family Guy. Interesting, but not nearly as tickling as seeing William Shatner talk about the holodeck and gaming at last year’s event in Vancouver, British Columbia. But the sci-fi theme continued, since of course, Mass Effect took the overall “Game of the Year” award, along with a host of other categories.

So how about those art and design categories? Which awards stood out for us?

Autodesk Game of the Year: Mass Effect Bioware/Microsoft Games BioWare

Best Console Game: Assassin’s Creed Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Development Team

Best PC Game: Company of Heroes Relic Entertainment Ian Thomson

Best Character in Video Gaming: Commander Shepard (Mass Effect) BioWare/Microsoft Games Drew Karpyshyn

Best Art Direction in Video Gaming: Mass Effect BioWare/Microsoft Games Derek Watts

Best Game Design of the Year: Mass Effect BioWare/Microsoft Games Preston Watamaniuk

Nokia Award for Outstanding Innovation in Gaming: Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts Relic Entertainment Josh Mosqueira

Ernst & Young Award for International Video Game of the Year: Crysis Crytek/Electronic Arts USA Cevat Yerli CEO, Crytek

Wow, go BioWare!

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