From February 18-20 2009, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences will hold its 12th annual DICE Summit in Las Vegas. Today, the corporation announced its Buy Kronos 3 Gold Interactive Achievement Awards--doled out at DICE--will certainly voted on by people in both the AIAS and another leading game-industry body, the International Game Developers Association. The IGDA currently boasts a lot more than 14,000 members, hailing from a assortment of positions.
"The Interactive Achievement Awards have stood because pinnacle from the awards season as publishing and development peers choose the titles that best represent that is a across several creative categories," said AIAS president Joseph Olin. "Our partnership with all the IGDA deepens the relevance in the Awards by expanding the peer group voting for awards. This basically definitely makes the Interactive Achievement Awards the state run awards from the games industry."
As part in the partnership, IGDA members can have a voice from the "craft" IAA categories, consisting of outstanding achievements in story development, sound design, and art direction. From 2001 to 2007, the IGDA had partnered with Think Services (then CMP Media group) within the Game Developers Choice Awards given out during the Game Developers Conference. However, adjusted this year's event, Think Services ended that partnership, with GDC show runners taking full control in the 2008 awards ceremony.
Hosted not too long ago by comedian Jay Mohr, the IAAs crowned Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare as being the 2007 Game in the Year. Other honorees included Valve's The Orange Box for Computer Game in the Year, Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for Handheld Game with the Year, and Blizzard's World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade for Massively Multiplayer Game in the Year.
The 2009 DICE Summit will return on the Red Rock Hotel & Casino in northern Las Vegas, with speakers and events for being announced shortly. Check out GameSpot's coverage of a year ago's show for more around the event. MMOAH is capable of providing a better service for Outland Gold trading. We have provided service for thousands and thousands of players in all over the world.
