San Francisco, CA (March 22, 2018) / War of Awards, a video game award mega-battle, has announced the latest video game nominees added to this year’s program. The newest games included in the running for their April 7th event are the recent winners of DICE Awards in their respective categories. Each of these winning games has been voted by a selected assembly of industry figureheads and seen to be of the highest marks in art, design, writing, performance, and sound.
War of Awards, a video game award mega-battle, has announced the latest video game nominees added to this year’s program.
The most recent nominees to be entered into the awards showdown were drafted in from the Independent Games Festival Awards, announced on March 21, 2018 during the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco.
The newest nominees to be entered into the program from the IGF awards are CHUCHEL for “Art Direction”, Uurnog Uurnlimited for “Audio”, Baba is You for “Design” and Night in the Woods for “Design” and “Game of the Year.
With the IGF Awards wrapped for the season, the updated War of Awards nominees are:
ART DIRECTION
Cuphead (DICE Awards, Golden Joystick, The Game Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Persona 5 (NAVGTR Awards)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (NAVGTR Awards)
Horizon Zero Dawn (SXSW Gaming)
CHUCHEL (IGF Awards)AUDIO
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (The Game Awards)
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Golden Joystick)
NieR: Automata (The Game Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Cuphead (DICE Awards)
Super Mario Odyssey (DICE Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (NAVGTR Awards)
Uurnog Uurnlimited (IGF Awards)CHARACTER/PERFORMER
Horizon Zero Dawn – Aloy (Golden Joystick)
Hellblade – Senua (DICE Awards, The Game Awards, NAVGTR Awards)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Peter Quill (NAVGTR Awards)DESIGN
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DICE Awards, The Game Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Super Mario Odyssey (NAVGTR Awards)
Horizon Zero Dawn (NAVGTR Awards)
Baba is You (IGF Awards)GAME OF THE YEAR
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DICE Awards, Golden Joystick, The Game Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Super Mario Odyssey (NAVGTR Awards)
Night in the Woods (IGF Awards)NARRATIVE
Horizon Zero Dawn (DICE Awards, Golden Joystick)
What Remains of Edith Finch (The Game Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Night in the Woods (NAVGTR Awards, IGF Awards)
Persona 5 (NAVGTR Awards)NEW IP/DEBUT
Cuphead (The Game Awards)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (The Game Awards)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Golden Joystick, NAVGTR Awards, SXSW Gaming)
Snipperclips (DICE Awards)
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (SXSW Gaming)
Night in the Woods (IGF Awards)TRENDING PERSONALITY (No Change)
Markiplier (Golden Joystick)
Guy Beahm as “Dr. Disrespect” (The Game Awards)Final winners of the War of Awards will be determined by attendees of PAX East, the Penny Arcade Expo held in Boston.
Voting will be conducted using an “Iowa caucus” live debate format on April 7 at 7 p.m. in the Cuttlefish Theatre inside the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.Fans can make and track predictions at warofawards.org before each precursor award and as the PAX East finale gets closer.
from GoNintendo
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