Freddie Wong and Felicia Day at Dice Awards in 2014.
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DICE Awards turn 20: How gaming’s Academy Awards have grown

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Anniversaries have a way of creeping up on us.

The game academy’s annual DICE Awards event is now in its 20th year, while the DICE Summit event is in its 17th. I’ve been to all of the summits, which gather the elite of the game industry in Las Vegas every year. I’ll be going to the summit and awards again this week in Las Vegas, and I thought it would be nice to reminisce about the past 20 years of an event that honors the artists of the game industry.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.