The groundbreaking Japanese developed adventure ICO and epic crim sim Grand Theft Auto 3 both picked up a brace of awards at the Game Developers Conference last week, held in sunny San Jose, California.

For ICO, it was rewarded a Game Innovation Spotlight to highlight its unusual gameplay and visual style; it also nabbed awards for Excellence in Level Design and Excellence in Visual Arts, so rest assured if you pick it up you'll find it plays well and looks great.

For the recently renamed DMA Design (it will now be known as Rockstar Studios), the awards ceremony went even better, with GTA 3 winning the prestigious honour of Game of the Year, a category in which it beat ICO, amongst others. Elsewhere GTA 3 picked up the Excellence in Game Design award, as well as a Game Innovation Spotlight.

In other awards PlayStation 2 continued to dominate, with Sega's sound-based shooter Rez picking up another Game Innovation Spotlight, and in perhaps our favourite award, the orange-furred Daxter from Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy picked up Original Game Character of the Year. Sadly Mr Daxter couldn't be on hand to collect the award, but we expect he'd have a lot more to say about it than his laconic partner.

For more information on the Game Developers Choice Awards, visit the official web site here.

During one of our long hard scours of some of the web's more obscure sites (for research purposes, honest), we somehow managed to stumble upon a tasty little ad promoting the imminent Japanese release of the much anticipated fourth instalment in the legendary Tekken series. It's brief to say the least, but there should be enough action packed in there to get all you fighting fans salivating profusely in anticipation of its European launch later this year.

It's taken us a few attempts to fully digest everything that's going on, but from the CG visuals on show, it seems as if Namco has once again set the precedent for visually sumptuous intro sequences. You'll catch a lengthy look at British pugilist Steve Fox (although we must profess to preferring his original moniker of Dean Earwicker) duffing in a nameless human punching bag and the devilish Kazuya Mishima giving some of his dad's troops a sound beating. You'll also catch a brief glimpse of Christie Monteiro, the gorgeous prot?of Tekken 3's sadly absent Capoeira master Eddy Gordo and Craig Marduk, a big wrestler type who looks like he's gone a few rounds with a large ugly stick.

Gameplay footage is spliced together at breakneck speed, but if you're quick enough you'll catch Tae Kwan Do poster boy Hwoarang diving headfirst into a crowd of shock troops in the newly updated Tekken Force mode and ol' feline-face himself King providing a painful demonstration of the game's new destructible environments.

It may be short, but the upside of its brevity is the minimal download size, which should prove inoffensive even to those of you who haven't joined the broadband revolution. So come, get the video and then join us as we ponder why Heihachi's defeated troops appear to drop oversized eggs...

Visit Tekken Fight Club for the original movie as well as a few audio files from the Tekken 4 radio ads. It's all in Japanese, mind, but the links stand out like a sore thumb so you shouldn't have a problem guessing your way around, but understanding what's actually being said is a different matter altogether. Have fun!

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