Elden Ring took Game of the Year honors at last night's annual Game Developer's Choice awards. The ceremony also included a Lifetime Achievement Award for John Romero and a Pioneer Award for Mabel Addis: "This year, the GDCA was honored to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to John Romero, who helped pioneer the first-person shooter genre, the widely popular multiplayer gamemode “Deathmatch” and much more through his work on games such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. This year’s Pioneer Award was posthumously awarded to Mabel Addis, widely regarded as the first female video game designer, who designed The Sumerian Game for the IBM 7090 in 1964. Mabel’s award was accepted on her behalf by Mabel’s grandson, Erik Johnson." Here are all the honorees:

The 23rd Annual Game Developers Choice Awards winners are:

• Best Debut
  Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
• Best Visual Art
  Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Best Audio
  God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Best Narrative
  Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Social Impact Award
  Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
• Innovation Award
  IMMORTALITY (Half Mermaid Productions)
• Best Technology
  God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Best Design
  Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Audience Award
  God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Game of the Year
  Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Pioneer Award
  Mabel Addis
• Lifetime Achievement Award
  John Romero