Riot Games' League of Legends has been doing extraordinarily well since its launch last year, and the Game Developers Choice Online Awards have decided to honor them with four award nominations!

Today, Riot Games' League of Legends received four nominations for the Game Developers Conference Online awards, including "Best Online Game Design," "Best Online Visual Arts," "Best New Online Game," and "Best Live Game," allowing them to compete with MMO veterans like NCsoft's Aion, Cryptic's Champions Online, Nexon's Dungeon Fighter Online, and even Blizzard's World of Warcraft.

For those of you who don't know, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference where game developers from around the world gather to speak about important topics in the industry. These days, GDC has become so big that they've decided to split it up into several different conferences, each focusing on a specific industry. GDC Online, for example, will be taking place at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas on October 5th to the 8th, and it will cover online games and online MMORPGs of all shapes and colors. This year, GDC Online has also decided to follow in the footsteps of its Game Developers Choice Awards (which take place in San Francisco every year) by giving out its own awards to leaders and visionaries within the industry of online games. Good luck Riot Games!