The Nominees For The DICE Awards 2023 Have Been Revealed; God Of War Ragnarök Leading The Pack

The nominees for the 26th annual DICE Awards have been revealed, with the winners set to be announced on February 23.

The DICE (Design Innovate Communicate Entertain) Awards is an annual event that recognises excellence in the gaming industry, as voted on by peers in the medium. This year’s podium is topped by God of War Ragnarök earning 12 nominations, followed by Horizon Forbidden West with eight and Elden Ring netting 7.

Here are all The DICE Award 2023 nominees:

Game of the Year

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
• Vampire Survivors (Poncle/Poncle)

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions)
• Tunic (Isometricorp Games LTD/FINJI)

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
• Tunic (Isometricorp Games LTD/FINJI)
• Vampire Survivors (Poncle/Poncle)

Online Game of the Year

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• EA Sports FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver, EA Romania/EA)
• Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (Square Enix/Square Enix)
• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
• Rumbleverse (Iron Galaxy Studios/Epic Games)

Mobile Game of the Year

• Diablo Immortal (NetEase/Blizzard Entertainment)
• Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (Broken Rules Interactive Media GmbH/Broken Rules Interactive Media GmbH)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions)
• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
• Poinpy (Moppin/Devolver Digital)

Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game

• Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)
• Tunic (Isometricorp Games LTD/FINJI)
• Vampire Survivors (Poncle/Poncle)

Immersive Reality Game of the Year

• Cosmonious High (Owlchemy Labs/Owlchemy Labs)
• Moss: Book II (Polyarc/Polyarc)
• Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot/Vertical Robot)
• Tentacular (Firepunchd/Devolver Digital)
• The Last Clockwinder (Pontoco/Cyan Ventures)

Immersive Reality Technical Achievement

• Among Us VR (Innersloth, Schell Games, Robot Teddy/InnerSloth)
• Cosmonious High (Owlchemy Labs/Owlchemy Labs)
• Moss: Book II (Polyarc/Polyarc)
• Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot/Vertical Robot)
• The Last Clockwinder (Pontoco/Cyan Ventures)

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

• Dwarf Fortress (Bay12 Games/Kitfox Games)
• IXION (Bulwark Studios/Kasedo Games)
• Marvel’s Midnight Suns (Firaxis Games/2K)
• Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (Niceplay Games/tinyBuild)
• Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters (Complex Games/Frontier Foundry)

Sports Game of the Year

• EA Sports FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver, EA Romania/EA)
• Mario Strikers: Battle League (Next Level Games/Nintendo)
• MLB The Show 22 (San Diego Studio/SIE, MLB Advanced Media)
• NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K)
• OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division)

Role-Playing Game of the Year

• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Weird West (WolfEye Studios/Devolver Digital)
• World of Warcraft: Dragonflight (Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Racing Game of the Year

• F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
• Need for Speed Unbound (Criterion Games/EA)

Fighting Game of the Year

• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (CyberConnect2 Co. Ltd./Bandai Namco)
• MultiVersus (Player First Games/Warner Bros. Games)
• Rumbleverse (Iron Galaxy Studios/Epic Games)
• SpiderHeck (Neverjam/tinyBuild)
• The King of Fighters XV (SNK Corporation/SNK Corporation)

Family Game of the Year

• Disney Dreamlight Valley (Gameloft/Gameloft)
• Kirby’s Dream Buffet (HAL Laboratory, Inc., Nintendo/Nintendo)
• Lost in Play (Happy Juice Games/Joystick Ventures)
• Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan, Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft)
• Trombone Champ (Holy Wow Studios/Holy Wow Studios)

Adventure Game of the Year

• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
• Tunic (Isometricorp Games LTD/FINJI)

Action Game of the Year

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo of America)
• Grounded (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Sifu (Sloclap/Kepler Interactive)
• Vampire Survivors (Poncle/Poncle)

Outstanding Technical Achievement

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Teardown (Tuxedo Labs/Tuxedo Labs)

Outstanding Achievement in Story

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/FINJI)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions)
• Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)

Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Gotham Knights (Warner Bros. Games Montreal/Warner Bros. Games)
• Somerville (Jumpship/Jumpship)

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo AS)
• Moss: Book II (Polyarc/Polyarc)

Outstanding Achievement in Character

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Alain Mesa as Alejandro Vargas
• God of War Ragnarök – Sunny Suljic as Atreus
• God of War Ragnarök – Christopher Judge as Kratos
• Horizon Forbidden West – Ashly Burch as Aloy
• Return to Monkey Island – Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTweleve Studios/Annapurna Interactive)
• The Callisto Protocol (Striking Distance Studios/KRAFTON)

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

• Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course (Studio MDHR/Studio MDHR)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Moss: Book II (Polyarc/Polyarc)

We’ve seen the winners of The Game Awards, but will those devs take home the same statuettes, or will the DICE Awards shake things up? We will have to wait and see.

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