With next year's Game Developer's Conference (GDC) readied for February 18 to 22, we'll be announcing an update to the event's equally important Independent Games Festival. We have just received word that this year's IGF Main Competition entries have now been finalized.

These entries bested 173 other contending titles, and are now set to compete for the top post at the upcoming IGF Awards scheduled for February 20, 2008. This list aside, readers will also want to wait until December 17, when the IGF's Student Competition finalists are announced.

The GDC and its accompanying Independent Games Summit are set to take place over at San Francisco's Moscone Theater. Keep alert in case any related updates are announced.

•  Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
• Audiosurf
• Crayon Physics Deluxe
• Hammerfall
• Noitu Love 2: Devolution
• World of Goo    
• Best Web Browser Game:
• Globulos.com
• Iron Dukes
• Tri-Achnid
• Design Innovation Award:
• Battleships Forever
• Fez
• Fret Nice
• Snapshot Adventures: Secret Of Bird Island
• World Of Goo
• Excellence in Visual Art:
• Clean Asia!
• Fez
• Hammerfall
• Synaesthete
• The Path
• Excellence in Audio:
• Cinnamon Beats
• Fret Nice
• Audiosurf
• Clean Asia!
• OokiBloks
• Technical Excellence:
• World of Goo
• Goo!
• Audiosurf
• Axiom: Overdrive
• Gumboy Tournament