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And the Winner Is…21st D.I.C.E. Awards Celebrates the Best in Video GamesThe Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of the interactive arts representing its 33,000+ membership base, today held the 21st D.I.C.E. Awards, its annual ceremony that brings together the interactive entertainment industry to honor the year's biggest achievements in video games. This year's Game of the Year was awarded to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by Nintendo, which takes players on a world of adventure as they travel across vast fields, through forests and over mountain peaks as they discover what has become of the kingdom of Hyrule. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180222006729/en/ Nintendo's Nate Bihldorff accepts the 21st D.I.C.E. Game of the Year Award for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. (Photo: Business Wire) The Academy membership honored games in 24 award categories, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild receiving four awards, making it the night's most awarded game. Cuphead earned a total of three awards. Games honored with two awards each included Horizon Zero Dawn, Lone Echo/Echo Arena, PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS and Snipperclips. Other top honorees were Fire Emblem Heroes for Mobile Game of the Year, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Racing Game of the Year, Injustice 2 for Fighting Game of the Year, FIFA 18 for Sports Game of the Year, Snipperclips for the Sprite Award, and PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS for Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay. "Every year, the D.I.C.E. Awards brings the global interactive entertainment industry under one roof to recognize and honor the very best in video games - the games that captivated and inspired us, and kept us entertained for hours on end," said Meggan Scavio, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. "On behalf of the Academy, I am thrilled to congratulate this year's winners of the 21st D.I.C.E. Awards." In addition to the awards for the industry's best games and creators from the previous year, the D.I.C.E. Awards also celebrated Genyo Takeda, Special Corporate Advisor at Nintendo, with a Lifetime Achievement Award, the seventh recipient to receive the honor from the Academy. Takeda was recognized for having been at the forefront of shaping the video games hardware industry in his career-long tenure at Nintendo with the development of the Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube and the Wii system. The 21st annual D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony, which was co-hosted for the second time by Greg Miller, co-founder of internet video show and podcast Kinda Funny, and Jessica Chobot of Nerdist News, included industry professionals who attended the event live and game fans worldwide who tuned in for the live stream. The show was he culmination of the annual three-day D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit (#DICE18), which is known for drawing many of the interactive entertainment industry's most respected and influential leaders, decision makers and visionaries. The complete list of winners includes: Game of the Year The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Immersive Reality Technical Achievement Lone Echo/Echo Arena
Immersive Reality Game of the Year Lone Echo/Echo Arena
Mobile Game of the Year Fire Emblem Heroes
Handheld Game of the Year Metroid: Samus Returns
D.I.C.E. Sprite Award Snipperclips
Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Sports Game of the Year FIFA 18
Role-Playing Game of the Year NierR: Automata
Racing Game of the Year Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Fighting Game of the Year Injustice 2
Family Game of the Year Snipperclips
Adventure Game of the Year The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Action Game of the Year PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Outstanding Technical Achievement Horizon Zero Dawn
Outstanding Achievement in Story Horizon Zero Dawn
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design Super Mario Odyssey
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition Cuphead
Outstanding Achievement in Character Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Senua
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction Cuphead
Outstanding Achievement in Animation Cuphead
Since 1996, the D.I.C.E. Awards have recognized outstanding games, individuals and development teams that push the boundaries of technology, creativity and artistic expression in the worldwide interactive entertainment industry. Titles were played and evaluated by members of the Academy's Peer Panels. The panels are comprised of the game industry's most experienced and talented professionals. Each panel is responsible for evaluating one award category. D.I.C.E. Awards recipients are determined by a vote of qualified Academy members. Award voting is confidential, conducted online and supervised and certified by VoteNet Solutions, Inc. The integrity of the system, coupled with a broad-based voting population of AIAS members, makes the D.I.C.E. Awards the most credible, respected and recognized awards for interactive entertainment software. The 21st D.I.C.E. Awards was produced by the AIAS, and will be available to watch in-full at https://www.youtube.com/user/AcademyIAS.
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