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It Takes Two wins game of the year at the DICE Awards

It Takes Two won another Game of the Year Award at the prestigious DICE Awards tonight at an in-person soiree in Las Vegas.

At one of the first post-pandemic (or mid-pandemic) game industry events, the game developed by Josef “F*** the Oscars” Fares’ Hazelight and published by Electronic Arts won the top honors from game industry peers at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

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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.