Gears Big Winner At DICE
February 10th, 2007 by Darren Stevens in Action, Adventure, Articles, Online, RPG, Simulation, Sports, Strategy, Wii, Xbox360
The annual DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, and Entertain) awards, presented by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Entertainment, had Gears of War as the big winner. It won a total of eights awards, including Game of The Year, Console Game Of The Year, and Best Action Adventure Game.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion won the Best RPG award, while Brain Age for the DS won the best handheld game of the year. Nintendo was also honored for Wii Sports, winning the prestigious Outstanding Innovation in Gaming award. Wii Sports also received the Outstanding Achievement in Game Design and Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering. You can check out all winners here.
February 10th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
This is starting to feel like lord of the rings. After award number three they just lose any importance.
February 11th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Gears is simply riding the hype. They already sold 3 million copies, don’t be surprised if it sells another 2 million before halo 3 gets out this fall. And I doubt halo 3 can reach the hype gears has reached, let alone sell 3 million copies in two months.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
There was no denying Gears it turns out but at least Sony didn’t walk away empty handed. They did win 2 awards and what is ironic (to me at least) is that one of them is for a children’s game. Guess they’ll have to wait until next year when God of War II wins at least three or four awards for them. Of course if they still haven’t managed to have at least one of their exclusive PS3 titles become a big hit and win some awards then the PS3 will definitely be in trouble. So the good news for Sony is that unless Halo 3 sweeps like Gears did they should walk away with a decent amount of awards (or else they really are in BIG trouble).