You are not going to believe who won the Game of The Year
We mentioned before, that The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences announced the complete list of 2020 nominees for the 23rd annual. The winners were announced on February 13th, 2020 at Aria Resort Las Vegas during the 2020 D.I.C.E. Summit. So let’s take a look at the winners.
Game of the Year
Untitled Goose Game. (Shocking right?)
Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game
Untitled Goose Game
Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design
Death Stranding
Action Game of the Year
Control
Adventure Game of the Year
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Family Game of the Year
Super Mario Maker 2
Fighting Game of the Year
Mortal Kombat 11
Immersive Reality Game of the Year
Pistol Whip
Immersive Reality Technical Achievement
Blood & Truth
Online Game of the Year
Apex Legends
Outstanding Achievement in Animation
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Control
Outstanding Achievement in Character
Untitled Goose Game
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
Baba Is You
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
Control
Outstanding Achievement in Story
Disco Elysium
Outstanding Technical Achievement
Death Stranding
Racing Game of the Year
Mario Kart Tour
Role-Playing Game of the Year
The Outer Worlds
Sports Game of the Year
FIFA 20
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
Control
Portable Game of the Year
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Developer Tweet
As we can see here, the Goose is the big winner of the night. And this was shocking to us all, even to House House, the Australian development team behind the Goose game, who made a laughable tweet stating that “this is weird” on being the big winner of the event. They added in another tweet “This is such an incredible, surreal honour. We regrettably couldn’t make it to DICE in person, and we had a hard time recording an acceptance video because (looking at the other nominees) it was impossible to imagine actually winning. We’re blown away.”
I agree with him actually, seeing that the other contenders for the top prize this year were Remedy Entertainment’s Control, Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding, ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium, and Mobius Digital Games’ Outer Wilds.
It’s worth mentioning also that all previous winners of D.I.C.E awards are big names from big companies, so this is anomaly considering House House is a small indie team.