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DICE Awards 2020 nominees announced. Control, Death Stranding and Untitled Goose Game fight for GOTY

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 23rd annual DICE Awards. The award will take place on February 13 at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. The hosts will be Jessica Chobot and Greg Miller.

DICE Awards 2020 nominees announced. Control, Death Stranding and Untitled Goose Game fight for GOTY

Control ΠΈ Death Stranding received the most nominations (eight for each), including a nomination in the Game of the Year category. Elysium disk ΠΈ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare received six nominations; Outer Wilds and Untitled Goose Game - four each; A Short Hike, Mortal Kombat 11, Resident Evil 2 and Sayonara Wild Hearts - three each.

List of nominations in each category of the 2020 DICE Awards:

"Game of the Year"

  • Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Disco Elysium (ZA/UM);
  • Untitled Goose Game (House House/Panic);
  • Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive).

"Outstanding Achievement in Animation"

  • Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Days Gone (SIE Bend Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom);
  • Luigi's Mansion 3 (Next Level Games/Nintendo);
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision).

"Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction"

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision);
  • Concrete Genie (Pixelopus/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Resident Evil 2 (Capcom).

"Outstanding Achievement in Character"

  • Jesse Faden - Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Cliff Unger - Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Grizz - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts);
  • Sam Porter Bridges - Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Goose - Untitled Goose Game (House House/Panic).

"Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition"

  • Arise: A Simple Story (Piccolo Studio/Techland Publishing);
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Erica (Flavourworks/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Golem (Highwire Games);
  • Mortal Kombat 11 (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment).

"Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design"

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision);
  • Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Mortal Kombat 11 (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment);
  • Resident Evil 2 (Capcom);
  • Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo/Annapurna Interactive).

"Outstanding Achievement in Story"

  • Disco Elysium (ZA/UM);
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Telling Lies (Sam Barlow/Annapurna Interactive);
  • The Outer Worlds (Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division);
  • Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive).

"Outstanding Technical Achievement"

  • Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision);
  • Concrete Genie (Pixelopus/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Metro Exodus (4A Games/Deep Silver).

"Action of the Year"

  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision);
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware/Activision);
  • Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom);
  • Gears 5 (The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios).

"Adventure of the Year"

"Family Game of the Year"

"Fighting of the Year"

  • Dead or Alive 6 (Arc System Works);
  • Jump Force (Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco Entertainment America);
  • Mortal Kombat 11 (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment);
  • Samurai Shodown (SNK Corporation).

"Racing Game of the Year"

  • Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Beenox/Activision);
  • DiRT Rally 2.0 (Codemasters);
  • F1 2019 (Codemasters);
  • Mario Kart Tour (Nintendo);
  • Trials Rising (Redlynx, Ubisoft Kiev/Ubisoft).

"RPG of the Year"

  • Disco Elysium (ZA/UM);
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (Square Enix);
  • Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix);
  • Pokemon Sword and Shield (Game Freak/Nintendo, The Pokemon Company);
  • The Outer Worlds (Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division).

"Sports Game of the Year"

  • FIFA 20 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports);
  • Madden NFL 20 (EA Tiburon/EA Sports);
  • MLB The Show 19 (SIE San Diego Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • NBA 2K20 (Visual Concepts/2K);
  • NHL 20 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports).

"Strategy/Simulator of the Year"

  • Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Blue Byte/Ubisoft);
  • Fire Emblem: Three House (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo, Koei Tecmo Games/Nintendo);
  • Oxygen Not Included (Klei Entertainment);
  • Slay the Spire (Mega Crit Games/Humble Bundle);
  • Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly/Sega).

"Technical Achievement in VR"

  • Asgard's Wrath (Sanzaru Games/Oculus VR);
  • Blood & Truth (SIE London Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Pistol Whip (Cloudhead Games);
  • Stormland (Insomniac Games/Oculus VR);
  • Westworld Awakening (Survios/HBO).

VR Game of the Year

  • Asgard's Wrath (Sanzaru Games/Oculus VR);
  • Blood & Truth (SIE London Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment);
  • Pistol Whip (Cloudhead Games);
  • The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets (Fast Travel Games);
  • Trover Saves the Universe (Squanch Games).

"Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game"

  • A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu);
  • Disco Elysium (ZA/UM);
  • Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo/Annapurna Interactive);
  • Untitled Goose Game (House House/Panic);
  • What is the Golf? (Triband/The Label, Fig).

"Portable Game of the Year"

  • Call of Duty: Mobile (TiMi Studios/Activision);
  • Grindstone (Capybara Games);
  • Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo/Annapurna Interactive);
  • Sky: Children of the Light (Thatgamecompany);
  • What is the Golf? (Triband/The Label, Fig).

"Online Game of the Year"

  • Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts);
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision);
  • Destiny 2: Shadowkeep (Bungie);
  • Tetris 99 (Arika/Nintendo);
  • Wargroove (Chucklefish).

"Outstanding Achievement in Game Design"

  • Baba Is You (Hempuli Oy);
  • Disco Elysium (ZA/UM);
  • Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive);
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware/Activision);
  • Slay the Spire (Mega Crit Games/Humble Bundle).

"Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction"

  • A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu);
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment/505 Games);
  • Disco Elysium (ZA/UM);
  • Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive);
  • Untitled Goose Game (House House/Panic).



Source: 3dnews.ru

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