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28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
The ''28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards'' was the 28th edition of the D.I.C.E. Awards ("Design Innovate Communicate Entertain"), an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 2024 in video games, 2024. The awards ceremony was arranged by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), and was a part of the 2025 D.I.C.E. Summit. The ceremony took place on February 13, 2025, at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Greg Miller (Internet celebrity), Greg Miller of Kinda Funny Games and Stella Chung, formerly of IGN, returned as hosts for the ceremony. The nominees were announced on January 10, 2025. The three most nominated games, each with six nominations, were ''Astro Bot'', ''Helldivers 2'', and ''Indiana Jones and the Great Circle''. Other heavily nominated games included ''Balatro (video game), Balatro'' and ''Senua's Saga: Hellblade II'' with five nominations, as well as ''1000xResist'', ''Animal Well'', and ''Batman: Arkham Shadow' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Resort & Casino
Aria Resort and Casino is a luxury resort and casino, and the primary property at the CityCenter complex, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by The Blackstone Group and operated by MGM Resorts International. Construction began on June 25, 2006, with a design by Cesar Pelli, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Aria received LEED Gold certification for its environmentally friendly design, and is the largest hotel in the world to achieve such a feat. It was also among the most technologically advanced hotels in the world at the time of its opening on December 16, 2009. It was developed as a joint venture between MGM and Dubai World, before being sold to Blackstone in 2021. Aria's hotel includes two curvilinear glass towers, rising up to 50 stories. The hotel has 4,004 rooms and suites, and is a recipient of the AAA Five Diamond Award and a five-star rating from Forbes Travel Guide. The resort also includes the only casino at CityCenter, with of gaming space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkham Shadow
''Batman: Arkham Shadow'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Camouflaj and published by Oculus Studios. It is the second virtual reality game in the '' Batman: Arkham'' series (following '' Batman: Arkham VR'') and a narrative sequel to '' Batman: Arkham Origins'' and '' Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate'' (2013). Set six months after ''Origins'' events, the game's story follows a younger and less experienced Batman, who attempts to stop a mysterious villain called the Rat King from destroying Gotham City on the Fourth of July, and depicts his transition from a violent and vengeful vigilante into a symbol of hope. ''Arkham Shadow'' was released for the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S on October 21, 2024, to largely positive reviews. Gameplay ''Batman: Arkham Shadow'' is an action-adventure video game played from a first-person perspective. In the game, the player assumes control of Batman, who must stop a new villain called the Rat King from unleashing chaos in Gotham C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MachineGames
MachineGames Sweden AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Uppsala. The studio was founded in 2009 by seven former employees of Starbreeze Studios, including founder Magnus Högdahl. After unsuccessfully pitching game ideas to several publishers, MachineGames agreed with Bethesda Softworks to develop an entry in the '' Wolfenstein'' series in July 2010 and was acquired by Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media, in November. In the ''Wolfenstein'' series, MachineGames developed '' The New Order'' (2014), '' The Old Blood'' (2015), ''The New Colossus'' (2017), '' Youngblood'' (2019), and '' Cyberpilot'' (2019). The studio also developed '' Indiana Jones and the Great Circle'' (2024) and is developing another ''Wolfenstein'' game. History MachineGames' founding team—consisting of Kjell Emanuelsson, Jerk Gustafsson, Magnus Högdahl, Jim Kjellin, Fredrik Ljungdahl, Jens Matthies, and Michael Wynne—was previously employed by Swedish video game company Starbreeze Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrowhead Game Studios
Arrowhead Game Studios is a Swedish video game development company, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students. History Johan Pilestedt and Emil Englund, studying Luleå University of Technology in Skellefteå, lead the development of their first game, later released as '' Magicka'', which won the Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards 2008. In 2011, ''Magicka'' was released, published by Paradox Interactive, after a contract with the publisher was signed in 2009. After the development, the team decided on planning their next games and intended to ban crunch. The company gradually moved to Stockholm in 2011–2012. In the following years, Arrowhead developed '' The Showdown Effect'', a 2.5D multiplayer action game inspired by 1980s and 1990s action movies, for which they stuck with Paradox Interactive to publish it in 2013, and '' Gauntlet'', a co-op dungeon action game, which was published by WB Games in 2014. In 2015, Arrowhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Science
Game Science () is a Chinese Video game development studio, video game development and publishing company founded by Feng Ji and Yang Qi in 2014. The studio is headquartered in Shenzhen and has an additional office in Hangzhou. It is best known for developing the video game ''Black Myth: Wukong'' (2024). History Formation and early period (2014–2017) Game Science was founded on 13 June 2014. The seven founding members were former Tencent employees who worked as developers on the massively multiplayer online game ''Asura'' at the company. At the time of their studio's formation, Video games in China#Social and mobile gaming (2008–2014), China's mobile games market was expanding, so they pivoted toward mobile development to stay afloat as a studio. In collaboration with publisher NetEase, Game Science developed the mobile game ''100 Heroes'', which was inspired by the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. The game attracted 500 thousand players in the first month and nearl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wukong
Sun Wukong (, Mandarin pronunciation: ), also known as the Monkey King, is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel ''Journey to the West''. In the novel, Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. Five hundred years later, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang riding on the White Dragon Horse and two other disciples, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, on a journey to obtain Buddhist sutras, known as the West or Western Paradise, where Buddha and his followers dwell. Sun Wukong possesses many abilities. He has supernatural strength and is able to support the weight of two heavy mountains on his shoulders while running "with the speed of a meteor". He is extremely fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000km, 34,000mi) in one somersault. He has vast memorization skills and can remember e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Asobi
Team Asobi is a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo. A First-party developer, first-party studio for Sony Interactive Entertainment, Team Asobi was originally formed in 2012 as part of Japan Studio, but formally spun off into an independent studio within Sony's PlayStation Studios in April 2021. It is best known for the ''Astro Bot (series), Astro Bot'' series. History Team Asobi was first formed in 2012 as an internal part of Japan Studio based in Tokyo by Nicolas Doucet. The team's name is derived from the Japanese word "Asobi", meaning "Play". After forming, they worked on technical demos and went on to develop ''The Playroom (2013 video game), The Playroom'' (2013), a pre-downloaded augmented reality game designed to demonstrate the use of the PlayStation Camera and DualShock 4 for the PlayStation 4. Doucet and several members of his team had been developers for games for the EyeToy and had brought their knowledge forward for use on ''The Playroom''. Team Asobi als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Software Association
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) and renamed on July 21, 2003. It is based in Washington, D.C. Most of the top publishers in the gaming world (or their American subsidiaries) are members of the ESA. The ESA also organized the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade expo in Los Angeles, California. The ESA's policy is based by member companies serving on the ESA's three Working Groups: "Intellectual Property Working Group", "Public Policy Committee" and "Public Relations Working Group". History The concept of the IDSA/ESA arose from the controversies that the violence depicted in the video game ''Mortal Kombat'' drew. This led to a United States Congress hearing in late 1993, where the video game industry was put under scrutiny for the level of violence in games like ''Mortal Kombat'' and '' Night Trap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Software Ratings Board
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The ESRB was established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA, formerly the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)), in response to criticism of controversial video games with excessively violent or sexual content, particularly after the 1993 congressional hearings following the releases of ''Mortal Kombat'' and ''Night Trap'' for home consoles and ''Doom'' for home computers. The industry, pressured with potential government oversight of video game ratings from these hearings, established both the IDSA and the ESRB within it to create a voluntary rating system based on the Motion Picture Association film rating system with additional considerations for video game interactivity. The board assigns ratings to games based on their content, using judgment similar to the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo Of America
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade '' hanafuda'' playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business and becoming a public company, Nintendo began producing toys in the 1960s, and later video games. Nintendo developed its first arcade games in the 1970s, and distributed its first system, the Color TV-Game in 1977. The company became internationally dominant in the 1980s after the arcade release of '' Donkey Kong'' (1981) and the Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched outside of Japan alongside '' Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, including the Game Boy (1989), the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991), the Nintendo DS (2004), the Wii (2006) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel's Spider-Man (video Game Series)
Numerous video games featuring the popular Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man have been officially released. To date, Spider-Man has appeared on over fifteen gaming platforms, including Mobile app, apps on mobile phones. Overview 1980s The Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962). By the late 1970s, Spider-Man had become a successful Franchising, franchise. At this time the fictional character had already featured in the animated series ''Spider-Man (1967 TV series), Spider-Man'', a segment on the children's television series ''The Electric Company'' (called ''Spidey Super Stories''), and the live action prime time series ''The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series), The Amazing Spider-Man''. As a result of the success, Marvel Comics licensed the character into a stream of electronic games. Spider-Man was quickly growing in popularity because of his simplistic Spider-Style costume, he was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
