It Takes Two picks up Game of the Year at 2022 DICE Awards
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart secured four accolades, Phil Spencer receives lifetime achievement honour
Hazelight's It Takes Two picked up the Game of the year accolade at last night's 25th annual DICE awards show.
The co-op adventure also took home the award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design.
Another big winner of the night was Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart which picked up four awards: Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Technical Achievement, and Family Game of the Year.
Other winners included Halo Infinite, which picked up Action Game of the Year and Online Game of the Year, and Deathloop, which took home Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction.
Housemarque's Returnal took home two awards: Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design and Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition.
Virtual reality and indies received some love too; Witch Beam's Unpacking picked up the award for Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game, and Ready at Dawn's Lone Echo 2 took home the gongs for Immersive Reality Technical Achievement and Immersive Reality Game of the Year.
The night also saw Xbox boss Phil Spencer receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, and NetherRealm Studios' Ed Boon was 2022's inductee into the DICE Hall of Fame.
View the full list of winners below:
- Game of the Year: It Takes Two (Hazelight)
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Design: It Takes Two (Hazelight)
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction: Deathloop (Arkane Studios)
- Outstanding Achievement in Animation:Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction:Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
- Outstanding Technical Achievement: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
- Family Game of the Year: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
- Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition: Returnal (Housemarque)
- Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design:Returnal (Housemarque)
- Outstanding Achievement in Story: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Square Enix)
- Adventure Game of the Year: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Square Enix)
- Action Game of the Year: Halo Infinite (343 Industries)
- Online Game of the Year: Halo Infinite (343 Industries)
- Fighting Game of the Year: Guilty Gear Strive (Arc System Works)
- Racing Game of the Year::Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
- Role-Playing Game of the Year: Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (Square Enix)
- Sports Game of the Year: Mario Golf: Super Rush (Camelot/Nintendo)
- Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year: Age of Empires IV (World's Edge/Microsoft)
- Immersive Reality Technical Achievement: Lone Echo II (Ready at Dawn)
- Immersive Reality Game of the Year: Lone Echo II (Ready at Dawn)
- Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game: Unpacking (Witch Beam)
- Mobile Game of the Year: Pokémon Unite (TiMi Studio)
- Outstanding Achievement in Character: Resident Evil Village - Lady Dimitrescu