AIAS 2011 nominees revealed, Uncharted 3 and Portal 2 lead the pack

The Academy of Interactive Arts and
Sciences has revealed its list of contenders for the 15^th
Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, naming the Nolan North, Cole
Phelps, and GLaDOS vehicles as this year’s biggest nominees.

Leading the pack is Uncharted 3:
Drake’s Deception (Naughty Dog), which earned a total of 12 nods,
followed closely by Portal 2 (Valve) with 10 mentions, and L.A. Noire
(Team Bondi) with 9. Oddly enough, despite its showing, L.A. Noire is
not listed among the nominees for Game of the Year. Instead, both
Uncharted 3 and Portal 2 will compete for the top prize against
Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
(Bethesda), and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo).

The full list of AIAS Award nonimees
includes other notable categories and nominations including:

Outstanding
Achievement in Online Game Play
Battlefield
3 (DICE)
Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Infinity Ward/Sledgehammer Games)
Gears
of War 3 (Epic Games)
LittleBigPlanet
2 (Media Molecule)
Star
Wars: The Old Republic(BioWare
Austin)

Downloadable Game of the Year
Bastion
(Supergiant Games)
Drawn: Trail of
Shadows (Big Fish Games)
Insanely Twisted
Shadown Planet (Shadow Planet Productions)
Ms. Spolosion Man
(Twisted Pixel Games)
Orcs Must Die!
(Microsoft Games)

Role-Playing/Massively
Multiplayer Game of the Year
Dark
Souls (From Software)
Deus
Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal)
Star
Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin)
The
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda)
The
Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (CD Projekt)

Sports
Game of the Year
FIFA
12 (EA Canada)
Madden
NFL 12 (Tiburon)
MLB
11 The Show (SCE San Diego Studio)
NBA
2K12 (Visual Concepts)
NBA
Jam: On Fire Edition (EA Canada)

Fighting
Game of the Year
Fight
Night Champion (EAC)
King
of Fighters XIII (SNK Playmore)
Mortal
Kombat (NetherRealm Studios)
Super
Street Fighter 4: 3D Edition Ultimate (Capcom)
Marvel
vs Capcom 3 (Capcom)

The
15^th
Annual Interactive Achievement Awards will also feature the induction
of Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney in to the AIAS Hall of Fame, and awarding of arcade visionary Ed Logg with AIAS’ 2012 Pioneer Award.

The
big show goes February 9 in Las Vegas. Let us know which games
you’re rooting for in the comments below.