LittleBigPlanet leads in AIAS award nominations

The game industry's closest approximation of Hollywood's Academy Awards has to be the Interactive Achievement Awards. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has revealed its nominees for 2008, and LittleBigPlanet has managed to run away with ten category nominations, the most of any game this year.

Ahem. And the nominees are:

See the rest, after the break.

Computer Game of the Year:

• Fallout 3

• Left 4 Dead

• Mass Effect

• Spore

• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Outstanding Innovation in Gaming:

• Braid

• Left 4 Dead

• LittleBigPlanet

• Spore

• Wii Fit

Handheld Game of the Year:

• Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

• God of War: Chains of Olympus

• Patapon

• Professor Layton and the Curious Village

The full list of nominees will be revealed on interactive.org. The winners will be announced at DICE 2009 on February 19th at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. The event will be hosted, yet again by, unemployed comedian Jay Mohr.