La sedicesima cerimonia annuale dei DICE Awards ha incoronato Journey come Gioco dell’Anno 2012. Il titolo sviluppato da Thatgamecompany ha ottenuto in totale otto riconoscimenti su undici nomination, seguito da The Walking Dead a cui ne sono stati conferiti quattro.
Ecco la lista completa dei premi conferiti.
Gioco dell’Anno
- Game of the Year 2012: Journey
- Action: Borderlands 2
- Mobile: Hero Academy
- Handheld: Paper Mario Sticker Star
- Sports: FIFA 13
- Racing: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- Fighting: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
- Downloadable: The Walking Dead
- Casual: Journey
- Web based: SimCity Social
- Family: Skylanders Giants
- RPG or MMO of the year: Mass Effect 3
- Strategy or simulation: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Adventure: The Walking Dead
Altre categorie
- Outstanding achievement in original music: Journey
- Outstanding achievement in original sound design: Journey
- Outstanding achievement in original story: The Walking Dead
- Outstanding achievement in character performance: The Walking Dead (Lee Everett)
- Outstanding achievement in art direction: Journey
- Outstanding innovation in gaming: Journey
- Best online gameplay: Journey
- Oustanding achievement in connectivity: Halo 4
- Outstanding achievement in animation: Assassin’s Creed 3
- Outstanding achievement in gameplay engineering: XOM: Enemy Unknown
- Outstanding achievement game direction: Journey
