Hosted by Greg Miller and Jessica Chobot, the 20th annual D.I.C.E. Awards will take place on Thursday, February 23 at The Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas after the 2017 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announced today. If you aren’t attending, the livestream will begin at 7pm PT/10pm ET.
56 games were nominated across 24 categories, with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End scoring 10 nominations. Inside was right behind it with nine nominations, Battlefield 1 and The Last Guardian followed with seven, and Firewatch and Overwatch each received six nominations.
Here’s some of the categories and nominees included in the 20th annual D.I.C.E. Awards:
Game of the Year

Battlefield 1
Inside
Overwatch
Pokémon Go
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Outstanding Achievement in Animation

Inside
Overwatch
Street Fighter V
The Last Guardian
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

1979 Revolution: Black Friday
Battlefield 1
Inside
The Last Guardian
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Outstanding Achievement in Story 

Firewatch
Inside
Oxenfree
That Dragon, Cancer
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Outstanding Technical Achievement

Battlefield 1
No Man’s Sky
Overwatch
Titanfall 2
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

D.I.C.E. Sprite Award

1979 Revolution: Black Friday
Firewatch
Inside
Superhot
That Dragon, Cancer

Action Game of the Year

Bat...