See the full list of nominated titles here: /QOYeqFAhv6- Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences January 26, 2021 We're pleased to announce the nominees for our 24th Annual #DICEAwards! A total of 57 games received nominations this year, led by The Last of Us Part II with 11, Ghost of Tsushima with 10, and Hades with 8. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) unveiled its annual lineup of award-eligible games this week, and no matter which ones walk away with the hardware, a pair of big Sony-only titles will be getting a ton of shoutouts at this year’s online-only DICE ceremony. Swinging back to the PlayStation side of things, last year’s incredible lineup of Sony smash hits is leading the nominee list for the upcoming DICE Awards. 28, The Medium is ready to rock the spirit world now on Xbox Series X/S and PC. In any case, it seems like a solid start to a year when Microsoft has a number of higher-profile exclusives lined up for its shiny new family of boxes, including The Ascent, The Gunk, Warhammer 40K: Darktide, and - coming later this fall - Halo Infinite. Equipped with few ways to fight back and armed chiefly with an ability to see the spirit realm - a sort of dark world suffused with unseen pain and terror overlaid right on top of the real one - some of the game’s biggest revelations happen when in split-screen mode, with the world you see juxtaposed side-by-side with the hidden one the haunted spectral realm that less-gifted mortals than Marianne take for granted.Įven with little combat and its brief runtime, The Medium is currently sitting at a comfortable 71 percent aggregate score at Metacritic, where reviewers are mostly united in loving the game’s clever use of its alternate-reality mechanic and overall gripping story…while loving less Marianne’s limited tool set and, at times, the bleak graphics ( The Medium was originally intended as a last-gen game, before Bloober Team decided the split-world technical challenges were insurmountable on past-gen hardware.) Swapping deep combat mechanics for duck-and-run evasion and light puzzle solving to get you out of harm’s way, The Medium isn’t likely to garner comparisons to direct-encounter survival horror standouts like Resident Evil. The third-person puzzler borrows ideas and events from real European history to find Marianne retracing the events that left an abandoned hotel with a horrifically high body count (and a dark legend to go with it, of course). So how about we start with an actual game you can play? Bloober Team turned The Medium loose this week to mostly solid - if not gushing - praise from critics, giving the Xbox Series X/S the first of many planned exclusives in a new console generation that finds Microsoft raising its platform exclusive ambitions beyond those of its Xbox One predecessor.Ī psychological horror game that gives protagonist Marianne two worlds to play in as she swerves back and forth between the real world and the spirit realm, The Medium clocks in at a relatively lean 10-hour playtime that nevertheless serves up an auspicious start for the Series X’s 2021 gaming lineup. Awards announcements, a couple of slight delays, a new horror game that’s getting generally good grades, the return of a pop culture gaming TV touchstone…and a little stock market kerfuffle surrounding GameStop that’s so deep down the financial rabbit hole that all we can do is stand back and watch from a safe distance - it’s definitely been a busy week in gaming, which means it’s hard to know where to even start.
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