Game Developers Choice Awards to honor Smithsonian video game exhibit curator and Spacewar! creator

By Dave Tach on Feb 21, 2013 02.21.13

The 13th Game Developers Choice Awards will honor Chris Melissinos, curator of the Smithsonian's "The Art of Video Games" exhibit and Steve Russell, creator of Spacewar! next month, according to a press release from the conference's organizers. Melissinos will receive the Ambassador Award, which is given to "those who have helped the game industry advance to a better place." Russell will receive the Pioneer Award, bestowed to "developers for creating breakthrough video game genres or concepts." For more on Spacewar!, which is considered to be the world's first digital computer game, be sure to watch our hands-on at the Museum of the Moving Image. To learn more about the Smithsonian exhibit, which featured items cataloging the first four decades of video games, hop over to our...