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Awards season is in full swing for television and movies – I’m writing this with the BAFTAs on in the background – but for the most part, the video game industry likes to hand out its trophies at the end of the calendar year.
Except for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’s (AIAS) Design Innovate Communicate Entertain (DICE) awards which are in February.
Across 23 awards, with Sony’s Astro Bot taking the coveted Game of the Year title, AIAS members vote confidentially for the game they think best matches each category.
EA SPORTS F1 24 took home the ‘Racing Game of the Year’ award – although, sadly, members of the Codemasters Birmingham team weren’t there to collect it in person, instead an Electronics Art representative collected on behalf of the outfit.
It was up against another yearly official sports title, MotoGP 24, and the Night-Runners Prologue – a free taster of an upcoming independent title that is reminiscent of Tokyo Xtreme Racer.
Admittedly, not the strongest roster, but 2024 wasn’t the genre’s finest hour – 2025 is shaping up to be much more promising, so the expected EA SPORTS F1 25 should have much stiffer competition.
Unlike the The Game Awards, racing and sports titles are separated at DICE, and also the public does not participate in the voting. At that event, F1 24 was nominated but beaten to ‘Best Sports / Racing Game’ by its sibling, EA SPORTS FC 25.
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