CMP's Game Developer Magazine Names 2007 Front Line Award Winners

Tenth Annual Awards Honor the Year's Seven Best Game Creation Tools, Induct
Autodesk's Maya to the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame

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."
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http://www.gdmag.com.
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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.
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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(R) and the Webby Award-winning
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