The 18th annual awards took place at this week's D.I.C.E. summit -- and the winners are no surprise. Transistor was the indie-focused Sprite Award pick, while Dragon Age got Game of the Year.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of its 18th annual awards, which were handed out at a ceremony during the D.I.C.E. Summit this week in Las Vegas.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor picked up eight of the nine awards it was nominated for, including Outstanding Innovation in Gaming and Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction. Dragon Age: Inquisition, however, took the Game of the Year nod, as well as the "Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year" award.
The D.I.C.E. Sprite award, which debuted at this year's show and seems pitched at awarding independent developers -- it's for "unique innovations that contribute to the ongoing progress of interactive media" -- went to Supergiant Games' Transistor.
Notably, game console innovator Ralph H. Baer (who recently passed away) was honored with a Pioneer Award alongside Pong developer Al Alcorn, while the Apple App Store got the show's other new award: Technical Impact.
The awards are chosen by active AIAS members from the developer and publishing communities.
The full list of winners is below:
Game of the Year
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Action Game of the Year
Destiny (Activision Publishing/Bungie)
Adventure Game of the Year
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Family Game of the Year
LittleBigPlanet 3 (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Sony Worldwide Studios Europe & Sumo Digital)
Fighting Game of the Year
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Nintendo/ Sora Ltd., Bandai Namco Games, & Bandai Namco Studios)
Racing Game of the Year
Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo/Nintendo)
Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
Sports Game of the Year
FIFA 15 (Electronic Arts/FIFA Development Team – EA Canada)
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment)
D.I.C.E. Sprite Award
Transistor (Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games)
Handheld Game of the Year
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo/ Sora Ltd., Bandai Namco Games, & Bandai Namco Studios)
Mobile Game of the Year
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment)
Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay
Destiny (Activision Publishing/Bungie)
Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Outstanding Achievement in Animation
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Monument Valley (Ustwo/Ustwo)
Outstanding Achievement in Character
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, for Talion (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
Destiny (Activision Publishing/Bungie)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
Destiny (Activision Publishing/Bungie)
Outstanding Achievement in Story
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
Outstanding Technical Achievement
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/Monolith Productions)
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