It Takes Two gets crowned Game of the Year at the DICE Awards

pcgamer.com:

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' 25th annual DICE Awards took place yesterday, and among the big winners were Hazelight's It Takes Two and current man-of-the-gaming-moment Phil Spencer, who received a lifetime achievement award. In case you're curious, DICE stands for Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain.

There are quite a lot of awards: I'll put the full list below, but the biggies are probably It Takes Two scooping both Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Game Design. Deathloop received Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, which sounds rather similar to the latter, while Halo Infinite bagged both Action and Online Game of the Year. Age of Empires 4 scored the best strategy/simulation title, while Forza Horizon 5 got Racing Game of the Year. There was a bit of love for Unpacking, too, which received the Outstanding Achievement for an Indie Game award.

After all the game awards, focus switched to the people. Xbox chief Phil Spencer received DICE's lifetime achievement award, while Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon was inducted into the DICE Hall of Fame. Get over here Ed!

Hazelight founder and It Takes Two writer and director Josef Fares kept his reaction to the game's latest success short and sweet:

This is incredible, thank you so much