The game Press Awards Awards organized have announced this year’s recipients for their Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer Award categories.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement award will be delivered to the creative director of Remedy, Sam Lake, with the Pioneer Prize will be awarded to the independent game designer Lucas Pope.
Lake has been working on the Finnish developer for more than three decades, after having been involved in writing, direction and performance in Remedy franchises, including Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break and Control.
Last month, Lake received the Andrew Yoon Legend award in the 14th Annual New York game Awards.
Pope has been in the games industry for more than two decades, and is the creative force behind experimental independent documents, please and DINN work return.
The designer also worked at Naughty Dog in projects such as Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among the thieves.
“[Pope] He has pushed the bar of the narratives and mechanics of the games through their work, “the organizers said.” He has tried to do things that others do not, exploring new genres and new ways of telling interesting stories. “
The Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer awards were voted by the Choice Editorial Committee of game developers of 2025, with suggestions from the Choice International Awards network.
“The Awards GCDs have a proud legacy of shining the figures that make the games the most exciting and evocative method of storytelling,” said GDC event director Stephenie Hawkins.
“We are excited to recognize Sam Lake and Lucas Pope for their commitments to push the limits of the environment through transcendent narrative structures, complex moral questions and an evocative game.”
The awards ceremony will take place on March 19 during the game Developer Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The GDC awards finalists were announced last month, with Astro Bot and Black Myth: Wukong receiving most nominations.
