World's best mobile games announced
The International Mobile Gaming Awards announces the nominees for their 8th annual award ceremony. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on 1 March in Barcelona.
26 January 2012-The nominees for the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGAs) were announced today with 30 games in six categories moving on to the final round of judging. Close to 500 games from all over the world were submitted for review by the international panel of experts: a record for the competition. The 30 nominees are:
BEST CASUAL GAME
CreaVures
HECTOR Episodes 1-3
Jetpack Joyride
Sprinkle
The Blocks Cometh
BEST REAL WORLD GAME
CityRace
FLATMATES
Meatspace Invasion
NBA: King of the Court
Shadow Cities
BEST SPORTS GAME
Bike Baron
Flick Tennis: College Wars
Sports Car Challenge
Touchgrind BMX
Trial Xtreme 2
BEST MOBILE SOCIAL GAME
Charadium II
Funpark Friends
Poker Pals
SpellCraft School of Magic
The Pirate King
EXCELLENCE IN GAMEPLAY
Battleheart
Contre Jour HD
Death Rally
DrawRace 2 HD
Infinity Blade II
MOST INNOVATIVE GAME
Forever Drive
Kodo
KuraKuraMaze
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
WildChords
"We have had an unprecedented response for the year's awards", said Maarten Noyons, CEO and Founder of the IMGA.
"We see a trend of very high quality, big productions coming to the mobile platform and on the other hand a lot of fresh innovative casual games. I think the jury has made a very interesting choice. The 8th IMGA shows a wealth of new ideas and ground-breaking quality coming from studios all over the world. I would like to congratulate each of the developers that have games nominated and thank everyone who submitted games to the awards."
On 1 March the IMGA will announce the winners during the IMGA Summit and Awards ceremony, a conference held at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
During the last seven years the IMGA has reviewed more than 2 000 mobile games from more than 52 countries including the USA, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, China, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Belgium.
Participants include PhD students, researchers, artists, individual developers and the top ten mobile games publishers and developers in the world. The winners in each category for this year's awards will be announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
Date Posted : 03 Feb 2012
