Viva Piñata gets six nominations to AIAS awards
The game joins Hollywood's Hispanic success
Nominates for Oscar and AIAS awards are in! Hispanic themed productions have gotten a huge success this year. And in spite of our recent change to English to appeal to a broader audience, due to our cultural origins here at MundoRare we can not resist to comment it.
At the Oscar’s nomination ceremony, El laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro got six candidatures, while drama Babel from his fellow countryman Alejandro González Iñárritu was proposed for seven categories. And despite the worldwide prize-winner Volver from Pedro Almodóvar not entering the final cut, Penélope Cruz will fight for her own golden award.
In the videogames industry, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) also announced this year’s nominations, and the most Hispanic Rare title ever –Viva Piñata– got six honourable mentions. Piñata will compete in the following categories:
- Console Game of the Year (against Gears of War, Zelda, Wii Sports and Guitar Hero 2)
- Outstanding Innovation in Gaming (along with Wii Sports, Braig Age, Gears of War, and LocoRoco)
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction (versus Gears of War, Final Fantasy XII, Call of Duty 3 and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas)
- Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance - Female (Louise Ridgeway as Leafos), (against Saints Row, Desperate Housewives, Bully, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and I bet Meryl Streep too)
- Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering (with Resistance: Fall of Man, Gears of War, Call of Duty 3 and Company Heroes)
- Family Game of the Year (versus Rayman Raving Rabbids, Guitar Hero 2, Brain Age and Lego Star Wars II)
We’d like to emphasize that Piñata was NOT nominated to Children’s Game of the Year. Probably because, as you may already know, is not just a game for kids despite what Microsoft want us to believe in their unfortunate promotional campaign.
Anyway, just one game from our beloved Twycross developers have achieved such deed before in these awards, and is no other than the superb GoldenEye, with six nominations in 1998. It finally got four of the most important prizes: Console Action Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Interactive Title of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Software Engineering.
The 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards will take place on Thursday, February 8, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada. So in a couple of weeks we’ll be able to know if our paper pets can emulate Bond in this field.
related news
- Leafos, Piñata’s hostess, best female character of the year ()
- Piñata goes Gold! ()
- Piñata party & Piñata merchandise on the way ()
- Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is on the way to Nintendo DS ()
- An “all things Piñata” conference at the Comic Con ()
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