GAM3 Awards Returns to Celebrate Web3 Gaming; Shortlisted Final Nominees Revealed

Web3 gaming awards return greater & higher offered by GAM3S.GG & Magic Eden with $2M in Prizes & $100k Group Rewards; voting begins right now

The ultimate shortlist of video games for the GAM3 Awards 2023 are lastly in! The most important web3 gaming occasion returns on 14 December 2023 for the second 12 months with video games going face to face for bragging rights and a prize pool of over $2M, to set the scene for 2024.

GAM3S.GG are bringing again the “oscars of web3 gaming” offered in partnership with Magic Eden this 12 months, as 70+ conventional and web3 gaming specialists come collectively to resolve the main video games on this area; with the occasion sponsored by AD Gaming.

Initially, 214 nominated video games have been put in entrance of 70+ jury members to assist produce the preliminary record of nominees. Based mostly on gameplay, mechanics, replayability potential, “enjoyable” issue, accessibility and total high quality – 40 shortlisted video games have made it onto the subsequent spherical which opens up for group voting right now, November the twenty second. 

As compared, the 2022 awards noticed 106 nominees in its inaugural edition, with the variety of certified video games with playable variations greater than doubled – reflecting the large development of web3 gaming all through the previous 12 months. 

The 40 shortlisted video games spanned 9 blockchain networks, with Arbitrum making an awards debut this 12 months with 4 shortlisted finalists. The highest 5 networks represented within the remaining shortlists are Polygon, Ethereum, Immutable X, Arbitrum and Avalanche. 

Bringing collectively business leaders from each conventional and blockchain gaming permits the awards to take care of a balanced sense of expectation, warning and pleasure. This 12 months the jury consists of executives and leaders from Amazon, Google, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Samsung, along with web3 gaming ecosystems, VCs, media retailers and content material creators. 

This 12 months’s prize pool for the successful video games exceeds $2M+ and ranges from money grants, tech service credit, advertising and marketing help, sponsored tournaments, infrastructure help, cloud gaming performance, and way more from a variety of companions together with Amazon, Magic Eden, AD Gaming, Extremely, Blockchain Gaming Alliance, Naavik, Aethir, and Horizon amongst others. 

The 40 finalists are advancing to the second section of the GAM3 Awards, the place the decision-making course of includes each jury members and public voting. On this section, the jury’s votes has a 90% affect, whereas group votes will account for the remaining 10%, successfully giving the general public a task akin to having 7 seats on the jury by way of influence, which may very effectively act as a tiebreaker or shift the stability in favor of some finalists over others.

Nevertheless, for particular classes such because the ‘Individuals’s Selection Award’ and ‘Finest Content material Creator’, the end result depends solely on group votes. Each classes have already amassed over 50K nominations, giving the highlight to 500+ video games and 300+ creators from all around the world as fan favorites. Moreover, the ‘Video games’ Selection Award’ is decided by shortlisted sport studios voting for what is actually, their very own model of sport of the 12 months. 

This 12 months, a number of video games stood out to the jury as Huge Time, Wildcard, Parallel and Deadrop shared the very best variety of nominations with 5 every; adopted by Illuvium and MetalCore with 4 nominations every. 

The ultimate GAM3 Awards livestreamed ceremony is scheduled for December 14th, 2023 to be hosted on Twitch, YouTube and X amongst different streaming platforms; with gameplay premiers and unique premieres trailers already confirmed from Star Atlas, The Unioverse, amongst different titles. Final 12 months’s occasion noticed the primary public premieres and unique footage from a number of video games together with Mythic Protocol Riftstorm, Mighty Motion Heroes, and NFL Rivals – which has since amassed over 3M+ downloads on their cellular sport.

Lastly, the occasion can also be set to reward group members, voters and viewers for his or her participation. Magic Eden is about to host an unique free mint for voters which gives early entry to future mints, gaming raffles and unique quests.

As well as, group voters and viewers have a chance to win rewards from a prize pool price over $100k USD in prizes starting from in-game gadgets, early entry passes, gaming PCs, gaming consoles and equipment.

The Recreation of the 12 months remaining nominees are:

• Parallel 
• Huge Time
• Deadrop
• Wildcard
• NFL Rivals

For the total record of nominees, go to gam3awards.com. Closing voting begins November twenty second and runs till December 1st, immediately on GAM3S.GG’s platform on the GAM3 Awards web page.

Keep tuned for unique content material, jury interviews, finalist bulletins, and extra forward of the December 14 ceremony. For extra data, please go to: gam3awards.com.

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About GAM3 Awards

GAM3 Awards is the business’s main web3 gaming awards. The occasion, first launched in 2022 and offered by GAM3S.GG, celebrates the very best high quality web3 video games, rewarding innovation and creativity on the intersection of blockchain and client leisure. Again for its second 12 months with new companions reminiscent of Magic Eden, Amazon and Google, the GAM3 Awards will reward the highest video games builders with financial prizes and companies valued at over $2M.

Study extra: https://gam3s.gg/gam3awards/

About Magic Eden

Magic Eden is the main cross-chain NFT platform, constructing a user-friendly platform for minting and accumulating NFTs. Magic Eden brings dynamic cultural moments onto the blockchain, empowering customers throughout 1000’s of digital communities to create, uncover and accumulate distinctive NFTs. So far, the platform has facilitated over $3 billion in transactional quantity. For extra data, please go to magiceden.io.

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Quotes for PR:

To focus on the rising commonplace in web3 video games in comparison with earlier years. George Yousling, Director of Enterprise Improvement at Polygon Labs states:

“Regardless of the macro headwinds, I’m inspired by prime quality video games reaching open beta and early entry. Video games which are enjoyable to play with fleshed out core loops, tutorials, in-game economies, and development programs. Person flows that take away friction via account abstraction and assist get gamers having fun with the expertise upfront versus clunky onboarding.”

Furthermore, outstanding names inside web3 gaming, reminiscent of Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Manufacturers, shared their ideas on how the previous 12 months has contributed to the general constructive path within the high quality of video games in web3. Robby instructed us in an unique interview:

“2023 goes to be remembered as a milestone 12 months, on the one hand as a result of the financial downturn meant that solely probably the most devoted builders continued constructing, however alternatively, as a result of the sorts of video games that we’re seeing launch now are way more polished than the primary era of web3 video games.”

Taking a look at the way forward for web3 gaming in 2024, Chris Akhavan, Chief Gaming Officer at Magic Eden added: 

“We’re thrilled to see over 200 web3 video games nominated for the GAM3 Awards.  Can’t wait to see who the winners can be on December 14th, and within the meantime, all of us have a number of taking part in to do!”

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