Did you miss the 14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards and the 10th Annual D.I.C.E. video game awards? If so, you’re in luck! The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announced that highlights from both are now available on Xbox LIVE for your viewing enjoyment. The Awards show highlights and sessions are available beginning yesterday for download free of charge.
“We are excited to provide Xbox LIVE members the special opportunity to view highlights from the Interactive Achievement Awards. This may be many gamers’ first introduction to the IAAs, and they will be able to see some of their favorite games from 2010 honored,” said Martin Rae, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. “Additionally, the selected D.I.C.E. Summit sessions are fantastic talks that will inspire anyone who takes the time to check it out.”
The IAA Show highlights will feature the Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction and other select categories. Bing Gordon and his Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech, “The Golden Age of Gaming,” will also be shown in its entirety.
The select D.I.C.E. Summit sessions will include:
• Richard Garriott, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Portalarium, speaking on his foray into space and its influence on him from a game creation standpoint in his session titled, “Achieving the Impossible – Creating Games and Gateways to Space!”
• John Stevenson, filmmaker and director of Kung Fu Panda, speaking on passion and pursuing his dreams as an animator in his session titled, “Monsters, Muppets and Movies”
• Dr. Dave Gallo, Director at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, speaks on diving deep into the ocean and exploring the Titanic in “Exploring the Ocean Deep in 3D: To the Titanic and Beyond.”
For a full list of winners, visit http://www.interactive.org/awards/2011_14th_awards.asp. The full show can be viewed here: http://www.g4tv.com/dice2011/interactive-achievement-awards/
