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Supergiant Games' narrative roguelite Hades has walked away with top honors at the 24th Annual DICE Awards this year, while also leading the pack as the most awarded game at the 2021 event. Hades, which launched out of Early Access in September 2020, was named Game of the Year during the live-streamed event today, beating out fellow GOTY nominees Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us Part II. Supergiant's latest also won awards in four other categories: Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Game Des...

Today, Supergiant Games' Hades won Game of the Year at the 24th annual DICE Awards, one of five honors the game received. It earned this achievement ahead of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us 2. The DICE Award organizers the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awarded Hades with Outstanding Achievement for Game Direction, Outstanding Achievement for Game Design, Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game, and Action Game of the Year. Ghost of Tsushima won the next-most categories, with four awards including Adventure Game of...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Naughty Dog has admitted that it hasn’t been able to become a multi-project development studio and although it has multiple ongoing projects, only one of them is getting “the lion’s share of focus at any time.” Speaking during the Academy of Interactive Arts & Science’s Game Maker’s Notebook series (transcript via Video Games Chronicle), co-president Evan Wells recalled abandoning a PSP version of Jak & Daxter in favor of The Last of Us. “The amount of effort that was required to finish Uncharted 3 at the time was stealing resources away from The L...

Jak & Daxter game, but added that he “wishes” that it was. Wells made his remarks while speaking to Insomniac Games CEO, Ted Price, during the Academy of Interactive Arts & Science’s Game Maker’s Notebook series (transcript provided by Video Games Chronicle). Wells revealed that seeing Insomniac’s work on Ratchet & Clank series is one of the reasons he wishes Naughty Dog was working on Jak & Daxter. We’ve had a couple of Twitter campaigns where people have been tweeting us every single day [saying] ‘I want a new Jak & Daxter, I want a new Jak & Daxter’, and they aren’t jus...

community April 09, 2021 By Tessa Perkins Deneault How is culture connected to language? How is language connected to our imagination, worldview and the land? In September 2019, coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, the premiere of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts explored these questions with an immersive, Indigenous futurist multimedia installation that allowed participants to experience Indigenous languages and culture via projection, sculpture, sound, shadow and film. Following the Transmissions ex...