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DICE Awards 2013: Journey scores eight gongs and GotY

Dice Summit 2013 is well under way, and tonight Vegas plays host to one of the most coveted industry awards shows in the biz. Journey didn’t manage to score in all 11 categories it was nominated for, but thatgamecompany carried home eight trophies.

Nominees were announced in mid-January and a few big names led the pack.

Journey scored 11 nods, and TellTale’s The Walkind Dead adventure series managed eight. Other much nominated titles include Far Cry 3 (seven), Halo 4 (six), Borderlands 2 (five) and Dishonored (five). Journey, Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead and XCOM: Enemy Unknown were in the running for Game of the Year, the major award.

The DICE Awards are in their 16th year. A full list of winners is below.

    Game of the Year categories

  • Game of the Year 2012: Journey
  • Action: Borderlands 2
  • Mobile: Hero Academy
  • Handheld: Paper Mario Sticker Star
  • Sports: FIFA 13
  • Racing: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
  • Fighting: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
  • Downloadable: The Walking Dead
  • Casual: Journey
  • Web based: SimCity Social
  • Family: Skylanders Giants
  • RPG or MMO of the year: Mass Effect 3
  • Strategy or simulation: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • Adventure: The Walking Dead
    Other categories

  • Outstanding achievement in original music: Journey
  • Outstanding achievement in original sound design: Journey
  • Outstanding achievement in original story: The Walking Dead
  • Outstanding achievement in character performance: The Walking Dead (Lee Everett)
  • Outstanding achievement in art direction: Journey
  • Outstanding innovation in gaming: Journey
  • Best online gameplay: Journey
  • Oustanding achievement in connectivity: Halo 4
  • Outstanding achievement in animation: Assassin’s Creed 3
  • Outstanding achievement in gameplay engineering: XOM: Enemy Unknown
  • Outstanding achievement game direction: Journey

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#1

Brenna Hillier
08/02/13, 5:13 am

We’re finished, and Journey predictably got practically everything.

#2

Telepathic.Geometry
08/02/13, 5:24 am

Ya know what, I don’t really agree with all the The Walking Dead love. I finished it and thought that it was… okay. I like that it’s kind of original, but I think it’s loved a little more than it really deserves.

Anyway, glad to see that Journey and Borderlands 2 got love…

#3

ignisbadguy
08/02/13, 5:40 am

“Fighting: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale”

lol

#4

Brenna Hillier
08/02/13, 5:43 am

@1 yeah it’a bit divisive, one of those love-or-meh things. Nobody seems to just like it.

@3 it’s probably the only fighter to come out within three months of the nominations, sooooo

#5

Clupula
08/02/13, 5:48 am

@4 – Tekken Tag 2?

#6

Brenna Hillier
08/02/13, 6:05 am

@5 that was September, two months further back. Nominations came out in January.

Also, DICE is pretty keen on innovation in general, so, you know, a new IP probably has a better chance than a sequel.

#7

Sini
08/02/13, 6:09 am

Handheld: Paper Mario Sticker Star

cretins

#8

tatsujin
08/02/13, 6:41 am

Journey just owned everything.

HELL YEA!

#9

mathare92
08/02/13, 7:55 am

Next up the Baftas, then the GDC Choice Awards. Hope thatgamecompany don’t run out of space in the trophy room.

It’s quite nice to know the industry has these classy, grown-up awards shows. You know, as a kind of antidote to the poison that Spike concocts every year. :)

#10

YoungZer0
08/02/13, 8:24 am

Meh.

#11

woe
08/02/13, 9:41 am

Best online gameplay: Journey? what a joke lol

#12

DrDamn
08/02/13, 9:46 am

@11
Not actually played it have you?

#13

SlayerGT
08/02/13, 10:59 am

Nicely done Journey.

#14

Gnosis
08/02/13, 11:01 am

Awesome. Congratulations and my respekt to Jenova Chen and his guys. Especially after reading about thatgamecompany almost going bankrupt because of this game. Glad it was worth it.

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