Astro Bot and Helldivers II Lead the Way at the 2025 DICE Awards Nominations
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Image courtesy of Arrowhead Sport Studios/PlayStation.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has disclosed its nominees for the forthcoming twenty-eighth annual DICE Awards.
Contenders for the event’s best game of 2024 include Team Asobi’s Astro Bot, Arrowhead’s Helldivers II, LocalThunk’s Balatro, GameScience’s Dark Fantasy: Wukong, and MachineGames’ Indiana Jones & the Gargantuan Circle. Astro, Helldivers, and Jones each received six nominations in categories such as animation, art direction, and technical achievement.
Following these three titles, Balatro and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II secured five nominations each. In total, the AIAS states 60 games from 2024 have been nominated across various categories.
You can review the complete nominee list here, with notable examples outlined below. The DICE Awards will be broadcast live from Las Vegas on Thursday, February 13.
Game of the Year
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Astro Bot (Team Asobi/PlayStation)
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Dark Fantasy: Wukong (GameScience)
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Helldivers II (Arrowhead Sport Studios/PlayStation)
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Indiana Jones & the Gargantuan Circle (MachineGames/Xbox)
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
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1000xResist (Sundown Customer/Fellow Traveler)
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Animal Smartly (BillyBasso/Mountainous Mode)
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (Simogo/Annapurna Interactive)
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Thank Goodness You are Here! (Coal Supper/Apprehension)
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
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Animal Smartly (BillyBasso/Mountainous Mode)
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Astro Bot (Team Asobi/PlayStation)
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Helldivers II (Arrowhead Sport Studios/PlayStation)
Online Game of the Year
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Activision Blizzard)
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Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred (Blizzard Entertainment)
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Helldivers II (Arrowhead Sport Studios/PlayStation)
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Marvel Heroes (NetEase Games)
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber Interactive)
Outstanding Achievement in Character
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Yuffie Kisaragi (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth)
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Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones (Indiana Jones and the Gargantuan Circle)
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Senua (Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II)
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Halls of Torment (Chasing Carrots)
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Monument Valley 3 (Ustwo Games/Netflix Games)
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Paper Path (Newfangled Games)
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Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)
Immersive Reality Technical Achievement
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Alien: Rogue Incursion (Survios)
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Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj/Oculus)
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Skydance’s BEHEMOTH (Skydance)
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