Everybody desires to really feel particular, and sport builders are not any exception. Congratulations to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Ghost of Yorei, two video games that fully dominate the annual DICE Award nominations. Each video games obtained eight nominations every, together with Sport of the Yr.
The twenty ninth annual DICE Awards, introduced by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, can be held in Las Vegas on February twelfth and can be hosted by Greg Miller and Stella Chung of Kinda Humorous Video games.
βFirst, we wish to thank our peer panelists for his or her dedication and experience in our judging course of and for his or her laborious work in choosing the right video games of 2025,β mentioned Megan Scaviau, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
βAnd on behalf of your entire Academy, I wish to congratulate all of our finalists. Every of those video games has impressed us by means of their creativity, artistry, and technical achievement, and we stay up for celebrating your achievements on the twenty ninth annual DICE Awards.β
full checklist of candidates
Excellent achievements within the discipline of animation
- Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside
- Ghost of Yotei
- monster hunter wild
- south of midnight
- midnight stroll
Excellent achievements of character
Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 – Esky
Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 – Marais
Dispatch – Courtney/Invisual
Dispatch – Robert Robertson III/Mechaman
Ghost of Yotei – Atsu
Glorious achievement in authentic music composition
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Ghost of Yotei
- pastoralist
- mario kart world
- sea ββsword
Excellent achievements in audio design
- arc raiders
- Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside
- Ghost of Yotei
- Luminous Come up
- cut up fiction
Glorious efficiency when it comes to story
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- please devour me
- desperoto
- south of midnight
- wanderer
glorious technical achievement
- arc raiders
- Murderer’s Creed Shadows
- Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside
- donkey kong bananza
- DOOM: Darkish Ages
motion sport of the yr
- absolute
- arc raiders
- DOOM: Darkish Ages
- Hades II
- Ninja Gaiden 4
Journey Sport of the Yr
- blue prince
- categorical supply
- donkey kong bananza
- Ghost of Yotei
- Hole Knight: Silk Music
Household Sport of the Yr
- Lego get together!
- lego voyager
- Luminous Come up
- MARVEL Cosmic Invasion
- popcom
combating sport of the yr
- 2XKO
- Capcom Preventing Assortment 2
- Garou Legend Wolf Metropolis
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Assortment
- WWE 2K25
racing sport of the yr
- EA Sports activities F1 25
- Kirby’s Air Riders
- mario kart world
- wheel world
Position-playing sport of the yr
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- monster hunter wild
- outer world 2
Sports activities Sport of the Yr
- EA Sports activities FC 26
- PGA Tour 2k25
- MLB The Present 25
- NBA 2k26
- rematch
Technique/Simulation Sport of the Yr
- The Alters
- drop principality
- Common Europe V
- the king is watching
- star vader
Technical achievements in immersive actuality
- ghost city
- Lodge Infinity
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR
- Star Wars: Past Victory – Combined Actuality Playset
- unloop
Immersive Actuality Sport of the Yr
- Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
- ghost city
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR
- midnight stroll
- Thief VR: Legacy of Shadows
Excellent achievement as an unbiased sport
- child steps
- blue prince
- please devour me
- desperoto
- categorical supply
Cellular Sport of the Yr
- Persona 5 The Phantom X
- Uma Musume Fairly Derby
- What’s a collision?
- the place the winds meet
on-line sport of the yr
- arc raiders
- battlefield 6
- mario kart world
- marvel rivals
- cut up fiction
Excellent achievements in sport design
- arc raiders
- blue prince
- Hades II
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Γ Alwoa
Excellent achievements in sport path
- blue prince
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Ghost of Yotei
- Hades II
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
sport of the yr
- arc raiders
- blue prince
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- categorical supply
- Ghost of Yotei
Rachel Weber is videogameaddicted’s Senior Editorial Director of Video games and a senior millennial. She’s been an expert geek since she began her profession on the UK’s Official PlayStation Journal in 2006, and has since labored at GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone, and GamesRadar. I like horror, horror motion pictures, horror video games, and French bulldogs. The additional wrinkles on her face are from staying up too late, going time-blind to finish all of the facet quests in RPGs like Fallout and The Witcher 3.