Blizzard missed out in the actual game nominations — for best PC game, the expansion was overshadowed by Fallout 3, Crysis Warhead, Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, and Left 4 Dead. You can argue amongst yourselves whether that’s justified or not. But we’re sure Blizzard is happy with the animation nomination anyway — their competition there is Turbo Dogs, so they’ll probably do fine when the awards are announced on April 25th.
Throw another nomination on the list for Wrath of the Lich King — Blizzard’s cinematic team has been nominated for an Elan award for the WotLK cinematic in the category of Best Animated Short Subject. And the nom is well deserved: while the trailer broke with the tradition of showing the various races and classes of Warcraft doing battle with each other, Blizzard’s choice to instead recap the story of Arthas and the Lich King while he summoned Sindragosa worked well and looked amazing.