The nominees for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards have been announced.

The strategy and simulation nominees are:

* Advance Wars: Days of Ruin – Nintendo – Intelligent Systems
* Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Electronic Arts – EA Los Angeles
* Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution – 2K Games – Firaxis
* Sins of a Solar Empire – Stardock Entertainment – Ironclad Games
* Tom Clancy’s EndWar – Ubisoft – Ubisoft Shanghai

Not a bad list, except for Red Alert 3. I’m surprised Spore didn’t get a nomination here, though it get picked for the Best PC Game category, a category that is itself an odd list since the PC port of Mass Effect is there, but not Sins of a Solar Empire.

Winners will be announced in three weeks.