DICE Awards Announces Game of the Year 2019 Nominees | Game Rant
The Game Awards may have closed out 2019 with a big celebration of the year’s best games, but it’s not the only major awards ceremony the industry has to offer. Since 1998, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has honored some of the most noteworthy titles out there with the annual DICE Awards, and today it announced the nominees for this year’s ceremony, which will cap off a week-long industry gathering at the 2020 DICE Summit next month.
This year’s event will see a total of 65 games nominated across 23 different categories. While many will be interested in all of these (the full list can be seen below), most will probably be interested specifically in the five games vying for the most prominent award of them all, Game of the Year.
AIAS’ choices for this year are Control, Death Stranding, Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, and Untitled Goose Game. These games make up an interesting selection, as they cover pretty much the whole spectrum of the games that came out in 2019. Here we have both major AAA titles and indie games that most gamers probably missed, games that are nearly universally beloved and games that are wildly divisive, and games whose merits vary from the strength of their gameplay to the uniqueness of the experiences they offer. It’s not every year a game lets players harass people as a testy goose, after all.
Besides Game of the Year, these games mostly overshadow the competition across the other categories too, with Control and Death Stranding both leading the DICE Award nominations with eight each (including for Outstanding Technical Achievement and Action Game of the Year). Following them is Disco Elysium with six, and Outer Wilds and Untitled Goose Game with four.
Other games of note here include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (which tied with Disco Elysium to get six nominations) Mortal Kombat 11, Resident Evil 2, and Sayonara Wild Hearts (all of which got three). Some of these games will obviously have a better chance of winning their respective awards than others, but all in all these and the dozens of other nominated games make a solid representation of what was great and most memorable about 2019.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Days Gone
Death Stranding
Devil May Cry 5
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Concrete Genie
Control
Death Stranding
Resident Evil 2
Control (Jesse Faden)
Death Stranding (Cliff Unter)
Death Stranding (Sam Porter Bridges)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Greez)
Untitled Goose Game (The Goose)
Arise: A Simple Story
Control
Erica
Golem
Mortal Kombat 11
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Death Stranding
Mortal Kombat 11
Resident Evil 2
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Control
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds
Telling Lies
The Outer Worlds
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Concrete Genie
Control
Death Stranding
Metro Exodus
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Control
Devil May Cry 5
Gears 5
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Death Stranding
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Resident Evil 2
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
A Short Hike
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Ring Fit Adventure
Super Mario Maker 2
Yoshi’s Crafted World
Dead or Alive 6
Jump Force
Mortal Kombat 11
Samurai Shodown
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
DiRT Rally 2.0
F1 2019
Mario Kart Tour
Trials Rising
Disco Elysium
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
Kingdom Hearts 3
Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield
The Outer Worlds
FIFA 20
Madden NFL 20
MLB The Show 19
NBA 2K20
NHL 20
Anno 1800
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Oxygen Not Included
Slay The Spire
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Asgard’s Wrath
Blood and Truth
Pistol Whip
Stormland
Westworld Awakening
Asgard’s Wrath
Blood & Truth
Pistol Whip
The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets
Trover Saves the Universe
A Short Hike
Disco Elysium
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Untitled Goose Game
What the Golf?
Call of Duty: Mobile
Grindstone
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sky: Children of the Light
What the Golf?
Apex Legends
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
Tetris 99
Wargroove
Baba is You
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Slay the Spire
A Short Hike
Control
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds
Game of the Year
Control
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds
Untitled Goose Game
The 23rd Annual DICE Awards will take place on February 13.
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