HORIZON ZERO DAWN WINS 7 NAVGTR AWARDS

The National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers, a 501©(3) non-profit media organization of 739 media voters and 8,804 subscribers, has announced winners for its 17th annual awards program honoring video game art, technology, and production.

The biggest winner is Horizon Zero Dawn with 7 awards. The record is held by The Last of Us with fifteen from three years ago. Cuphead was the second biggest winner with 6 awards. Super Mario Odyssey and Persona 5 each won five.

Developer and publisher tallies were not available as of press time.

Fifty-nine of sixty competitive categories were awarded recognizing achievement in animation, art direction, character design, controls, game design, game engineering, musical score, sound effects, writing, and more as seen at http://navgtr.org. Only the category of Original Racing Game received no nominations.

NAVGTR strongly supports the IGDA Developer Credit special interest group (SIG) at http://igda.org/devcredit to improve crediting practices, making award attributions possible for individuals.

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