Untitled Goose Game currently had its minute in the sun throughout The Game Awards in December, however that terrible little bird was back once again today, winning game of the year (to name a few honors) at the2020 DICE Awards
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It’s an impressive accomplishment for the small team at Melbourne, Australia-based Home Home, which was not able to participate in the awards personally. “This is such an extraordinary, surreal honour,” the studio said in a tweet, including that it was a difficulty even tape-recording an approval speech on video due to the fact that “it was difficult to picture really winning.” The other competitors for the leading reward this year were Treatment Home entertainment’s Control, Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding, ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium, and Mobius Digital Games’ Outer Wilds.
Even more impressive is the reality that all of the previous GOTY winners in the DICE Awards’ 23-year history aregames from big-name publishers For such a little, self-published title to make this honor from one of the market’s greatest bodies– from a group of its peers, as the AIAS membership consists of game designers and other individuals in the market– is rather an abnormality.
DICE, not to be puzzled with the Battleground studio EA DICE, is an acronym that represents Style, Innovate, Interact, and Entertain. The DICE Awards are the focal point of the yearly three-day DICE Top, hosted in Las Vegas by the not-for-profit Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), a more than 30,000- member-strong game marketgroup This year’s awards show, which happened Thursday night, was hosted by Greg Miller and Jessica Chobot.
The first game to win a DICE Award as game of the year was GoldenEye 007, released by Nintendo back in1997 Other winners consist of The Sims (Electronic Arts), Gears of War (Microsoft Game Studios), and Journey (Sony Computer Home Entertainment).
In addition to the normal classifications, AIAS likewise inducted Connie Cubicle, vice president of item advancement at Sony Interactive Home Entertainment, into the AIAS Hall of Popularity.
” Cubicle has actually been essential in assisting produce many seriously and commercially well-known SIE games over the past 25 years,” AIAS stated in a news release, “consisting of Syphon Filter; SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs; Jak and Daxter; Sly Cooper; Cog & Clank; Infamous; Resistance Fall of Male; Uncharted; The Last of United States; Days Gone; and Marvel’s Spider-Man. Cubicle likewise has actually been committed to breeding more youthful skill to produce fantastic experiences for PlayStation fans.”
Picture: AIAS.
The full list of winners is below.
Game of the Year
Untitled Goose Game
Impressive Accomplishment for an Independent Game
Untitled Goose Game
Impressive Accomplishment in Audio Style
Death Stranding
Action Game of the Year
Control
Adventure Game of the Year
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Family Game of the Year
Super Mario Maker 2
Battling Game of the Year
Mortal Kombat 11
Immersive Reality Game of the Year
Handgun Whip
Immersive Reality Technical Accomplishment
Blood & Truth
Online Game of the Year
Peak Legends
Impressive Accomplishment in Animation
Luigi’s Estate 3
Impressive Accomplishment in Art Instructions
Control
Impressive Accomplishment in Character
Untitled Goose Game
Impressive Accomplishment in Game Style
Baba Is You
Impressive Accomplishment in Original Music Structure
Control
Impressive Accomplishment in Story
Disco Elysium
Impressive Technical Accomplishment
Death Stranding
Racing Game of the Year
Mario Kart Trip
Function-Playing Game of the Year
The External Worlds
Sports Game of the Year
FIFA 20
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Fire Symbol: 3 Homes
Impressive Accomplishment in Game Instructions
Control
Portable Game of the Year
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Update: We have actually upgraded this story to consist of commentary from Home Home, the team behind Untitled Goose Game.
