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Dragon Age: Inquisition wins Game of the Year

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LAS VEGAS — Electronic Arts’ Dragon Age: Inquisition won Game of the Year tonight at the Dice Awards.

The Dice Awards are like the Oscars of gaming, and they come at the close of the Dice Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. The victory for Dragon Age: Inquisition, which was created by EA’s BioWare label, was an upset for Warner Bros.’ Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which won eight other awards.

The other nominees were Destiny, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Far Cry 4, and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

Destiny from Bungie won four awards during the night. Dragon Age, by comparison, came out with just a couple of victories. Dragon Age: Inquisition had a huge amount content, with nearly 100 hours of game play in a virtual fantasy world. It also won for best role-playing game.

The world of Dragon Age: Inquisition is enormous, and begging to be explored.
The world of Dragon Age: Inquisition is enormous, and begging to be explored.
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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.