28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards 2024 video-game awards event
The 28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards is the upcoming 28th edition of the D.I.C.E. Awards ("Design Innovate Communicate Entertain"), an annual awards event that will honor the best games in the video game industry during 2024 . The awards will be arranged by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), and will be part of the 2025 D.I.C.E. Summit . The ceremony will take place on February 13, 2025, at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada . Greg Miller of Kinda Funny Games and Stella Chung of IGN will return as hosts for the ceremony. The nominees were announced on January 10, 2025.[ 1] [ 2]
The three most nominated games, each with six nominations, are Astro Bot , Helldivers 2 , and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle . Other heavily nominated games include Balatro and Senua's Saga: Hellblade II with five nominations, as well as 1000xResist , Animal Well , and Batman: Arkham Shadow each having four nominations. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the top publisher, publishing five games with fifteen nominations.
Ted Price, President and Founder of Insomniac Games , who has helped oversee the creation of popular games such as Spyro the Dragon , Ratchet & Clank , Resistance: Fall of Man and Marvel's Spider-Man series, is to be inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame.[ 3] Don James , former Executive Vice-President of Nintendo of America , is to receive the Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Don James heavily contributed to the creation of the ESRB and Interactive Digital Software Association, now known as the Entertainment Software Association , and its signature trade show, E3 .[ 4]
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface , and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[ 2] [ 1]
Game of the Year Awards
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch , Activision ) — Matt Scronce, Kevin Drew
Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred (Blizzard Entertainment ) — Brent Gibson, Rod Fergusson, Gavian Wishaw
Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Johan Pilestedt
Marvel Rivals (NetEase ) — Weicong Wu, Guangyun Chen, Fan Feng, Dino Ma
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber Interactive , Focus Entertainment ) — Dmitry Grigorenko, Oliver Hollis-Leick, Alexey Tkachev
Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode ) — Billy Basso
Balatro (LocalThunk, PlayStack)
Grunn (Sokpop Collective ) — Tom van den Boogaart
Indika (Odd-Meter, 11 Bit Studios ) — Dmitry Svetlow, Maxim Lebedev, Maxim Skobelev, Alex Posedko
Mouthwashing (Wrong Organ, Critical Reflex) — Johanna Kasurinen, Yasmine Lindberger, Martin Halldin, Dave van Egdom, Jeffrey Tomec, Tanakorn Ratanal-orng, Kai Moore
Immersive Reality Awards
Alien: Rogue Incursion (Survios , 20th Century Games ) — Margheritta Seconinno, TQ Jefferson, Eugene Elkin
Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj, Oculus Studios ) — Ryan Payton, Aaron Whiting
Escaping Wonderland (Cortopia Studios, Beyond Frames Entertainment) — Michael Nordström, Pelle Hallert
Skydance's Behemoth (Skydance Games ) — Brian Murphy, Shawn Kittelsen, Jesse Young
Underdogs (One Hamsa) — Dave Levy, Assaf Ronen
Alien: Rogue Incursion (Survios , 20th Century Games ) — Patrick Harris, Shelby Tang
Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj, Oculus Studios ) — Ryan Darcey, Colin Doody, Troy Johnsen
Skydance's Behemoth (Skydance Games ) — Peter Akemann, Jason Bare, Simon Inch
Starship Home (Creature) — Mark Schramm, Ashley Pinnick, Doug North Cook
Underdogs (One Hamsa) — Dave Levy, Niv Fisher
Craft Awards
1000xResist (Sunset Visitor, Fellow Traveller Games ) — Remy Siu, Colin MacDougall, Kodai Yanagawa
Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode ) — Billy Basso
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (Simogo , Annapurna Interactive ) — Simon Flesser, Magnus Gordon Gardebäck
Riven (Cyan Worlds ) — Rand Miller, Richard Vander Wende, Eric A. Anderson, Hannah Gamiel
Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper, Panic Inc. ) — James Carbutt, Will Todd
Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode ) — Billy Basso
Astro Bot (Team Asobi , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Nicolas Doucet, Hironori Yatoku, Gento Morita
Balatro (LocalThunk, PlayStack)
Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Niklas Malmborg, Mikael Eriksson
UFO 50 (Mossmouth) — Derek Yu , Jon Perry, Eirik Suhrke , Paul Hubans, Tyriq Plummer, Ojiro Fumoto
Astro Bot (Team Asobi , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Nicolas Doucet, Jamie Smith, Kohei Kawa
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch , Activision ) — Phil Lozano, Martin McBain
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix ) — Yoshiyuki Soma
Neva (Nomada Studio, Devolver Digital ) — Adrián Miguel, Ian García, Arnau Martín
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber Interactive , Focus Entertainment ) — Aleksandr Rudenko
Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science ) — Yang Qi
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (MachineGames , Bethesda Softworks ) — Axel Torvenius, Mattias Astenvald
Lego Horizon Adventures (Guerrilla Games , Studio Gobo, Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Paul Ayliffe, Jan-Bart van Beek, Roy Postma
The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures, Devolver Digital ) — Jamie Turner
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory , Xbox Game Studios ) — Mark Slater-Tunstill, Dan Crossland, Dan Attwell
Astro Bot (Team Asobi , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Kenneth C.M. Young
Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Wilbert Roget II , Ross Tregenza, Keith Leary
Monument Valley 3 (ustwo , Netflix Games ) — Todd Baker, Lucie Treacher
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory , Xbox Game Studios ) — David Garcia-Diaz
Star Wars Outlaws (Massive Entertainment , Ubisoft ) — Wilbert Roget II , Cody Matthew Johnson, Simon Koudriavtsev
1000xResist (Sunset Visitor, Fellow Traveller Games ) — Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Conor Wylie, Remy Siu
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (MachineGames , Bethesda Softworks ) — Tommy Tordsson Björk, Jerk Gustafsson, Todd Howard
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero, Atlus ) — Katsura Hashino , Yuichiro Tanaka
Still Wakes the Deep (The Chinese Room , Secret Mode ) — Dan Pinchbeck, Emma Beeby
Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper, Panic Inc. ) — James Carbutt, Will Todd
Astro Bot (Team Asobi , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Nicolas Doucet, Masayuki Yamada, Takumi Yoshida
Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj, Oculus Studios ) — Ryan Darcey, Colin Doody, Troy Johnsen
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (MachineGames , Bethesda Softworks ) — Jim Kjellin
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory , Xbox Game Studios ) — Gavin Costello, Loong Wei Ding
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber Interactive , Focus Entertainment ) — Anatolii Koruka, Aleksey Melnikov, Nikolay Salin
Genre Awards
1000xResist (Sunset Visitor, Fellow Traveller Games ) — Remy Siu, Colin MacDougall, Kodai Yanagawa
Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode ) — Billy Basso
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (MachineGames , Bethesda Softworks ) — Jerk Gustafsson, Axel Torvenius, John Jennings, Todd Howard
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Grezzo , Nintendo ) — Eiji Aonuma , Satoshi Terada, Tomomi Sano
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Ubisoft Montpellier ) — Mounir Radi, Jean-Christophe Alessandri, Abdelhak Elguess
Astro Bot (Team Asobi , Sony Interactive Entertainment ) — Nicolas Doucet, Hironori Yatoku, Masayuki Yamada
Cat Quest III (The Gentlebros, Kepler Interactive ) — Desmond Wong
Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger) — Matt T. Wood
The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures, Devolver Digital ) — Jonathan Biddle, Jamie Turner, Kitty Crawford
Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo Cube ) — Takeru Sugimoto, Shuichiro Nishiya, Toshiaki Suzuki
Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare , Electronic Arts ) — John Epler, Corinne Busche, Gary McKay
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware , Bandai Namco Entertainment ) — Hidetaka Miyazaki , Yui Tanimura, Eiichi Nakajima
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix ) — Naoki Hamaguchi , Tetsuya Nomura , Yoshinori Kitase
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio , Sega ) — Ryosuke Horii, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Masayoshi Yokoyama
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero, Atlus ) — Katsura Hashino , Junichi Yoshizawa
EA Sports College Football 25 (EA Tiburon , EA Sports ) — Christian McLeod, Scott O'Gallagher, Rob Jones
EA Sports FC 25 (EA Vancouver , EA Romania, EA Sports ) — John Shepherd, Adam Shaikh, Karim Versi
MLB The Show 24 (SIE San Diego Studio , MLB Advanced Media ) — Chris Cutliff, Ramone Russell, Steve Merka
NBA 2K25 (Visual Concepts , 2K Games ) — Greg Thomas, Erick Boenisch, Mike Wang
Balatro (LocalThunk, PlayStack)
Caves of Qud (Freehold Games, Kitfox Games ) — Brian Bucklew, Jason Grinblat, Craig Hamilton, Corey Frang, Bastia Rosen, Autumn McDonell, Samuel Wilson, Caelyn Sandelc
Frostpunk 2 (11 Bit Studios ) — Jakub Stokalski, Łukasz Juszczyk, Szymon Jabłoński
Satisfactory (Coffee Stain Studios ) — Mark Hofma, Oscar Jilsén
Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Developments) — Tom Francis, John Roberts, John Winder
Special Awards
Hall of Fame
Lifetime Achievement
Multiple nominations and awards
Multiple nominations
References
Craft Awards Genre Awards Ceremonies Related