and the winner is..

[Mushlafa]

Metroid... yeah.. metroid won game of the year.. as well as another award and retro got rookie of the year sort of award for their work on metroid..

Heres the full list

Game of the Year
Metroid Prime (Retro Studios)

Original Game Character of the Year
Sly Cooper from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus by Sucker Punch

Rookie Studio of the Year
Retro Studios for Metroid Prime

Excellence in Audio
Jack Grillo, Rebecca Hanck, Erik Kraber and Yuan Liu for sound effects in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Excellence in Game Design
Romain de Waubert de Genlis, Ola Holmdahl, Johan Persson, and Niklas Persson for game design in Battlefield 1942

Excellence in Level Design
Metroid Team for level design in Metroid Prime

Excellence in Programming
Mark Brockington, Scott Greig, Jason Knipe, Don Moar and Don Yakielashek for network programming in Neverwinter Nights

Excellence in Visual Arts
Shinji Hashimoto and Tetsuya Nomura for art direction in Kingdom Hearts

Excellence in Writing
Clint Hocking and JT Petty for writing in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Game Innovation Spotlights
Animal Crossing (Nintendo)
Battlefield 1942 (Digital Illusions)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2015, Inc.)
The Thing (Computer Artworks)

The GDC Awards advisory board also presented three special awards to the following:

Lifetime Achievement Award
Gunpei Yokoi, creator, Game Boy

The First Penguin Award
David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Jim Levy, Alan Miller, and Bob Whitehead, founders, Activision

IGDA Award for Community Contribution
Doug Church, technical director, Eidos


Gamecubes also on there for innovation in animal crossing.. .. the oscars of the video game industry..