CMP's Game Developer Magazine Names 2007 Front Line Award WinnersTenth Annual Awards Honor the Year's Seven Best Game Creation Tools, Induct Autodesk's Maya to the Front Line Awards Hall of FamePRNewswire SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of CMP's Game Developer magazine have named the winners for the 2007 Front Line Awards, the magazine's tenth annual evaluation of the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, game engine, middleware, and books. In addition, the magazine has revealed that Maya, Autodesk's software for digital image creation, 3D animation, and visual effects, is this year's inductee to the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame. Each year, honor is bestowed upon a product that has made an outstanding contribution to the game development industry for five years or more. All winners will be profiled in the January 2008 issue of Game Developer, available to subscribers in early January. The complete list of winners of the 2007 Game Developer Front Line Awards is as follows: Hall of Fame: Maya Autodesk Art Tool: Softimage XSI 6.01 Softimage Engine: Unreal Engine 3 Epic Games Programming/Production Tool: Perforce 2007.2 Perforce Software Middleware: PathEngine SDK PathEngine Audio Tools: Vivox Precision Audio Vivox Books: GPU Gems 3 NVIDIA/Addison-Wesley Professional Game Developer's mission for more than ten years has been to provide game developers with information, news, and articles that pertain directly to them. The Front Line Awards are an official way of recognizing one specific aspect of the industry: the tools that developers need to do their jobs. Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of favorite tools, from game engines to books, and selects the top five in six different categories. After a comprehensive judging process, one winner is chosen in each category. "Game Developer heartily congratulates the winners of the 2007 Front Line Awards," said Jeffrey Fleming, Production Editor of Game Developer. "These tools represent the most innovative, user-friendly, and useful products from behind the scenes of the world's best video games and we are proud to give them a bit of the glory they deserve." For more information, please visit Game Developer online at http://www.gdmag.com/. About Game Developer (http://www.gdmag.com/) Game Developer, the print publication written specifically for creators of entertainment software, provides technical and industry information to over 35,000 professional game developers. Each month, industry leaders and game development experts share technical solutions, review new products, and discuss strategies for creating innovative, successful games. Game Developer features articles written by professional game developers on cutting-edge game development techniques in the areas of graphics and AI programming, audio design and engineering, art and animation, QA/testing, game design, and project management. About the CMP Game Group (http://www.cmpgame.com/) The CMP Game Group, a division of CMP (http://www.cmp.com/), delivers essential information and enables community within the game industry through events, services, and media. The group's flagship products include the world-leading Game Developers Conference® and the Webby Award-winning Gamasutra.com. For more information, please visit http://www.cmpgame.com/. About CMP CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news. SOURCE: CMP Game Group CONTACT: Sibel Sunar, sibel@fortyseven.com, or Brian Rubin, Web site: http://www.gdmag.com/ |