DICE Awards 2013: Journey Sweeps Up!

The D.I.C.E awards are one of the most prestigious award ceremonies in the game industry. Last night in Vegas, the 16th annual ceremony as held, celebrating the games of 2012. Well, mostly celebrating one game… thatgamecompany’s Journey swept up, winning 8 of the 11 categories including Game of the Year!

The list of nominee’s this year was a high caliber lot. Journey led the charge with all 11 nominations, The Walking Dead series close behind with 8. Other notable games were Far Cry 3 (7), Halo 4 (6), Dishonored (5), Borderlands 2 (5). All of those except Halo 4 were also up for Game of the Year, with XCOM: Enemy Unknown replacing 343 studio’s debut Halo game.

Here’s the full list of winners:

• Game of the Year 2012
• Journey

• Action:
• Borderlands

• 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:
• Skylander’s Giants

• RPG/MMO:
• Mass Effect 3

• Strategy:
• 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: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

• Outstanding achievement game direction: Journey