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‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’, ‘Alan Wake 2’ Lead 2024 DICE Awards Nominees

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Remedy’s Alan Wake 2 is looking to continue its winning ways from last year at this year’s DICE Awards. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) announced the nominees for the 27th annual show, which will be livestreamed by IGN on Thursday, February 15 from the Aria Resort in Las Vegas.

A total of 56 games released in 2023 are nominated for this year’s DICE Awards, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 leading the way with 9 nominations, followed by Alan Wake 2 with 8 nominations, and Baldur’s Gate 3 (which won Game of The Year at The Game Awards last month) with 7 nominations.

All three games are vying for DICE’s Game of the Year award, alongside Geometric Interactive’s COCOON and Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Other genre titles nominated at this year’s awards include Mortal Kombat 1, Diablo IV, Dead Space, Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice, and El Paso, Elsewhere.

The nominees for the DICE Awards are determined by members of the Academy’s peer panels. These panels, one for each award category, are comprised of the game industry’s most experienced and talented experts in their chosen fields. Winners are determined as part of a confidential voting process and will be revealed on the evening of the show.

Check out the full list of nominees and the 23 categories via The DICE Awards official site.

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Behaviour Interactive Teases More Story for ‘The Casting of Frank Stone’ in Brief Trailer [Watch]

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Behaviour Interactive has decided to drop a little something in the form of a new trailer for those fans eager for more info about The Casting of Frank Stone, which is still on track for release later this year. The brief trailer centres around a radio report of a double murder, for which no suspect has been identified. But we all know where this leads.

The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself. In the depths of an Oregon steel mill, the gruesome crimes of a sadistic killer spawn horrors beyond comprehension.

Delve into the mystery of Cedar Hills alongside an original cast of characters bound together on a twisted journey where nothing is quite as it seems. Every decision you make shapes the story and impacts the fate of the characters within it. Brimming with emotional gut-punches and high-stakes horror, discover how a simple decision can become a truly heart-wrenching dilemma.

The Casting of Frank Stone is currently being developed by Supermassive Games for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and will be using Dead by Daylight’s mythology, featuring brand-new characters.

And check out our interview with Supermassive and Behaviour Interactive for more on the game.

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