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Journey Dominates The 16th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards

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by Matt Bertz on February 07, 2013 at 11:27 PM

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Journey took home the top honors at the annual D.I.C.E. awards show, and several other trophies as well.

Thatgamecompany accepted eight awards over the course of the night, including Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and Outstanding Innovation in Gaming. The Walking Dead and XCOM: Enemy Unknown also earned some well-deserved hardware, taking home four and two awards, respectively.

Here is the full list of winners:

Game Of The Year: Journey

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction: Journey

Outstanding Innovation in Gaming: Journey

Downloadable Game of the Year: The Walking Dead

Handheld Game of the Year: Paper Mario Sticker Star

Mobile Game of the Year: Hero Academy

Web Based Game of the Year: SimCity Social

Action Game of the Year: Borderlands 2

Adventure Game of the Year: The Walking Dead

Casual Game of the Year: Journey

Family Game of the Year: Skylanders Giants

Fighting Game of the Year: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

Racing Game of the Year: Need For Speed: Most Wanted

Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year: Mass Effect 3

Sports Game of the Year: FIFA 13

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Outstanding Achievement in Animation: Assassin's Creed III

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction: Journey

Outstanding Character Performance: The Walking Dead - Lee Everett

Outstanding Achievement in Connectivity: Halo 4

Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay: Journey

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition: Journey

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design: Journey

Outstanding Achievement in Story: The Walking Dead

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering: Halo 4

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by xx_shimmy_xx Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 09:51 PM

Only award I don't agree with here was fighting game of the year. I know there weren't that many of them last year, but I can't think of Playstation All-Stars as being the top of that category. Otherwise, a lot of fine choices.
by Idostuff Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 11:35 PM

If only i had a PS3 to play Journey on. Seems like the type of thing i would be into.

Also idk if it qualifies b.c it technically didn't debut in 2012 but I would give RPG of the year to The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition.
by General Mills44 Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 11:36 PM

Well deserved, glad to see tgc get the recognition. It's amazing how well a game like Journey has done.
by LHD6 Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 11:39 PM

Several Great Choices for the D.I.C.E Awards. I am glad ThatGameCompany has been so widely recognized as of late. I can't wait to see what they will make next.
by The Communist Raccoon Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 11:51 PM

I honestly didn't like Journey it was too simplistic and too pretentious. imo it deserved art direction and original music composition but nothing else. Also I'm not a troll please dont hate
by ViRuS Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 11:53 PM

I still do not agree that Mass Effect 3 was the RPG of the year last year. I'm sorry....but Xenoblade is getting robbed!
by dex7491 Friday, February 08, 2013 at 12:27 AM

I loved watching all the people on Youtube freaking out about Journey winning, then I come here and see everyone happy about it... shows the difference in demographics between the two mediums, I suppose.
by Cameron Koch Friday, February 08, 2013 at 12:29 AM

Woohoo! Glad to see Walking Dead get some love. I wish I could play Journey but I don't have a PS3 :/
by Kai Atlas Friday, February 08, 2013 at 12:30 AM

As much as I'm glad to see Journey prosper so well, I'm also disappointed. In a way, it seems we had even less high/good quality games, otherwise the awards list would have been overflowing with different titles.
by a fleabag Friday, February 08, 2013 at 12:31 AM

I believe it was the publisher for Journey that had the best point all night, saying that there is merit when producers let their devs do what they do best, instead of being morons and bogging them down with business S**t. I'm looking at you EA/Activision.
by Kyon Friday, February 08, 2013 at 12:59 AM

Lol, are we going to have all those people who hate All-Stars, because it's a "clone" of SSB, start raging here for actually winning something?

Journey was absolutely phenomenal and well-deserving of all these.
by KayoDot Friday, February 08, 2013 at 01:01 AM

Journey is one of those gaming experiences that I will never forget.
by Viktor Friday, February 08, 2013 at 01:13 AM

I object to lumping RPGs and MMO's together like that.
by 2pacalypse Friday, February 08, 2013 at 01:17 AM

I'll agree with most of those. Journey was probably my game of the year. It was so unique! It was just a breath of fresh air to see something so amazing.

The industry needs more Journeys, too much stagnation. Innovation is necessary!
by TradeMark Friday, February 08, 2013 at 01:25 AM

Great to see Journey win so many awards, congrats TGC! It's also nice to see Sticker Star as Handheld GOTY.
by NightmareAsylum Friday, February 08, 2013 at 01:58 AM

Alternate name for this list: Most hyped games of last year. Borderlands 2 was good, of course, but to me the fun died down much quicker than it did in the first game. Bought the season pass, and still have only played through the main story once and the first DLC pack, just can't seem to find the drive to keep going. Also, where's the love for Far Cry 3? Not enough attention because 2 flopped or what? And Sleeping Dogs?
by AlmightyMokona Friday, February 08, 2013 at 02:21 AM

All those games blow, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 over any of them any day of the week...and to anyone who responds that is only my opinion...NO SH!T SHERLOCK
by alithinos Friday, February 08, 2013 at 03:39 AM

To think I hadn't even heard of this game that won so many awards. Also puzzled that neither Far Cry 3 or Dishonored got any awards.
by wonderboy1234 Friday, February 08, 2013 at 04:01 AM

Yeah Journey doesn't really deserve any of these awards except art direction.
by Splash700 Friday, February 08, 2013 at 04:02 AM

Journey was great, but not GOTY for me, not even in my top 5. I would have given it to Assassin's Creed III, that game blew me away, amazing game.