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Gam3 and Magic Eden revealed the winners of its GAM3 Award 2023 contest for the very best Web3 video games of the yr.
The 19 winners have been revealed at a reside occasion final week the place it famous how far Web3 gaming has come as an trade. The prize pool for the successful video games exceeds $2 million in money an in-kind assist, together with money grants, tech service credit, advertising assist, sponsored tournaments, infrastructure assist, cloud gaming performance and extra.
Group voting performed a job in deciding the ultimate selections with over 450,000 votes from over 50,000 distinctive voters. Every sport, and content material creator, managed to high their class to face out amongst their friends. I used to be one of many judges of the competition. And I famous how the standard had improved in distinction to earlier contests that I’ve judged.
Full listing of winners
Recreation of the Yr: Parallel
Most Anticipated Recreation: Shrapnel
Greatest Graphics: Shrapnel
Greatest Motion Recreation: My Pet Hooligan
Greatest Cellular Recreation: Mighty Motion Heroes
Greatest Journey Recreation: Huge Time
Greatest Informal Recreation: Pixels
Greatest RPG: Huge Time
Greatest Shooter Recreation: Deadrop
Greatest Technique Recreation: Parallel
Greatest Card Recreation: Parallel
Greatest Multiplayer Recreation: Huge Time
Greatest Esports Recreation: Deadrop
Greatest Content material Creator: Sam Steffanina
Greatest On-Chain Recreation: Pirate Nation
Greatest Combating Recreation: Champions Ascension
Greatest Racing / Sports activities Recreation: NFL Rivals
Folks’s Selection Award: Star Atlas
Video games’ Selection Award: Wildcard
The prizes come from a variety of companions together with Amazon, Magic Eden, AD Gaming, BNB Chain, Immutable, Extremely, Blockchain Gaming Alliance, Naavik, Aethir and Sequence amongst others.
The winners have been determined by a mix of jury and public voting. The jury’s votes had a 90% affect, whereas neighborhood votes accounted for the remaining 10%. Folks’s Selection and Greatest Content material Creator are exceptions to the rule as they have been 100% neighborhood voted.
Initially, 214 nominated video games have been put in entrance of greater than 70 jury members to assist produce the preliminary listing of nominees. Primarily based on gameplay, mechanics, replayability potential, “enjoyable” issue, accessibility and general high quality — 40 shortlisted video games made it onto the following spherical which opened up for neighborhood voting from November 22 to December 7.
To stoke the voting, hundreds of social posts have been unfold throughout companions, video games, media shops, content material creators, and neighborhood members producing over 35 million impressions.
Parallel and Huge Time each swept three awards every (tied for many awards) with Parallel successful the title of Recreation of the Yr. As well as, each Deadrop and Shrapnel shared two awards every with the later topped “Most Anticipated Recreation” for the second yr in a row.
The ultimate listing of 12 successful video games included 4 video games constructed on Polygon, adopted by two Ethereum L1 titles and an equal share of 1 title throughout Immutable, Ronin, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Solana and EOS every.
The GAM3 Awards 2023 ceremony on December 14 noticed a peak viewership of 36,000 concurrent viewers and a median of 12,200 viewers all through your entire present throughout Twitch alone. General, over 50,000 viewers tuned in reside throughout all livestreaming platforms with the occasion reaching over 250,000 views within the first 24 hours alone.
Viewers received to see gameplay premiers and unique premier trailers from Star Atlas, Blocklords, Infinite Victory, Wilder World, Thetan Rivals, Apeiron, Xociety, Forgotten Playland’s official reveal, Aether Video games’ Saga CGI sequence teaser, in addition to the primary ever have a look at Extremely’s unique title, Mission Citadel. All of that are a testomony to the intense way forward for Web3 gaming as we head into 2024 with the occasion anticipated to return subsequent December for its third consecutive version, Gam3 stated.
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