GTA V, Papers Please & Gone Home Compete For GameCity Prize

<p>The Organisers of the UK gaming festival GameCity have announced the shortlist for the annual GameCity Prize&period; The six finalists are&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Animal Crossing&colon; New Leaf &lpar;Nintendo EAD Group No&period;2&sol;Monolith Soft&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Brothers&colon; A Tale of Two Sons &lpar;Starbreeze Studios&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Gone Home &lpar;The Fullbright Company&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Grand Theft Auto V &lpar;Rockstar North&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Kentucky Route Zero &lpar;Cardboard Computer&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Papers&comma; Please &lpar;Lucas Pope&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>The prize is intended to reward games not just for their gameplay mechanics but also for their impact on popular culture&period; Previoius winners of the GameCiy prize include Minecraft and Journey&period; The decision is made by a group of judges who all come from outside the gaming industry&period; This year the panel consists of award-winning journalist Samira Ahmed&comma; songwriter Peter Gabriel&comma; Financial Times manager Lisa Pollack and Welcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar&period; Gemma Jackson&comma; a Game of Thrones production designer&comma; and Darren Aronofsky&comma; director of Black Swan and Noah&comma; complete the line up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The winner will be announced during this year&&num;8217&semi;s GameCity festival which takes place in Nottingham between October 25 and November 1&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;digitalspy&period;co&period;uk&sol;gaming&sol;news&sol;a580668&sol;gone-home-gta-5-and-papers-please-nominated-for-gamecity-prize-2014&period;html&num;~oIontp00WW88Zw">Digital Spy<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;