The DeanBeat: Should you bring up Trump’s travel ban politics at a video game award event?
Video games are a great form of escapism. And the game industry celebrated them last night at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the...
DICE Awards: Blizzard’s Overwatch takes Game of the Year
Blizzard’s Overwatch won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for video games. The action shooter walked away...
DICE Awards turn 20: How gaming’s Academy Awards have grown
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.
Game academy leader Martin Rae leaves post for VR industry job
Just ahead of the Dice Europe event, Martin Rae said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat that he is leaving his job as president...
Hideo Kojima gets Hall of Fame honors from the video game industry
Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Series games and who recently parted ways with Japanese publisher Konami, was inducted into the Hall of...
Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata gets posthumous lifetime achievement award from gaming peers
Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata received a posthumous lifetime achievement award tonight at gaming’s equivalent of the Oscars. The Academy of Interactive Arts &...
DICE Summit to highlight game gods Hideo Kojima, Todd Howard, and Sid Meier
Even though they let people like me into it, the DICE Summit is perhaps the most elite event in the game industry. It features talks from...
Comedian Pete Holmes takes a gentler approach to hosting the DICE Awards
Holmes picks the comedian host torch back up for the DICE Awards following last year’s departure — gaming personalities Felicia Day and Freddie Wong hosted, breaking a streak that had comedians such as Jay Mohr and Chris Hardwick onstage for a number of years.
Candid moments of the ‘who’s who’ at gaming’s red carpet event
The video game digerati walked the red carpet at the Dice Awards. Here's what they told us.
