European Games Award 2012 Online voting for the Pan-European public choice award for games lasts until August 13

Votes for the European Games Award are coming in thick and fast as the intensity rises to find out who will win the top awards this year. Over 100.000 votes have been submitted online at http://www.european-games-award.com/index.php/voting and a new voting record has already been broken. Games, developers, publishers, magazines and platforms from 15 countries compete until August 13, 2012, for the much sought-after prize in the gaming industry – the European Games Award.

Portal 2 wins best game at BAFTA Video Game Awards 2012

The First Person Puzzle game Portal 2 scooped the top game award at the BAFTAs with Battlefield 3 winning the public award plus it also won the best online multi-player award.

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Just Dance 3 Wins Top International Industry Award

Just Dance 3 by Ubisoft has been awarded the top accolade by public vote in The Exergame Network Awards 2011.

ME Awards 2011: Full winners list - Mobile gaming

Samsung, Fetch, Grapple and Fetch among the first time winners at Mobile Entertainment's industry showcase.

The fifth annual ME Awards took place at the Royal Garden Hotel in London earlier this evening, attracting over 300 senior professionals from all over the world.

Video Game Winners from GamesCom 2011

Winner

Game, Category, Company
Battlefield 3, Best of gamescom, Electronic Arts

2011 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards BAFTA Heavy Rain, Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Civilization V honoured at UK game awards

HEAVY RAIN won three awards at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards at the London Hilton, hosted by Dara O’Briain. The film noir-style thriller took home the BAFTAs for Original Music, Technical Innovation and Story.

Indie horror video game 'The Path' title wins at hóPLAY Bilbao

The first edition of the hóPLAY International Video Game Festival has ended with the announcement of its competition winners during an amusing ceremony at the Alhóndiga center in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Indie horror title The Path by Belgian development studio Tale of Tales has received two of the six awards: one for Best Design and one for Best Sound. Each award is good for 6,000 Euros. Tale of Tales is celebrating with a 50% discount on the game.
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"We're very proud of these awards," exclaim designers Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. "Our work is often praised for its experimental nature and its artistic depth, and somewhat marginalized because of this. But at hóPLAY, The Path won for its design and its sound without any reservations. This makes us proud and very hopeful for a future in which artistic achievement is rewarded as a natural aspect of videogame creation."

Unity Technologies Wins Prestigious Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award

Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for highly interactive 3D content on the web, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, Android, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, today announced that Unity won The Wall Street Journal 2010 Technology Innovation Award in the software category. This year — the awards\' 10th — The Wall Street Journal received 597 applications from companies, organizations and individuals in 30 countries. The list of winners can be found at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703904304575497473735761294.html.

“We couldn’t be more excited to be recognized thus by one of the world’s most respected and widely read publications. This is the latest in a series of accolades for Unity,” said David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies. “We remain doggedly focused on simplifying game development tools to make them available to everyone from the individual enthusiast to the most demanding of game development studios.”

Battle lines drawn in the fight for Strategy Video Game Of The Year at the Golden Joystick Awards!

A wide range of best selling games feature in the nominations list for the Strategy Game of the Year, in the world’s biggest video games awards event, the Golden Joystick Awards.

A universe of different worlds collide in this diverse line-up of contenders. From the bizarre space age strategy of Command & Conquer, to the Napoleonic intrigue of Napoleon: Total War to plant life and zombies in Plant vs. Zombies.

Which Racing Video Game Do You Think Should Win A Golden Joystick Award?

Three of the biggest names in the racing video games world are battling wheel-to-wheel for the crown of Racing Game of the Year, in one of the most closely fought categories in the 28th annual Golden Joystick Awards.

Over 400,000 votes have already been placed in this year’s competition and with just over two months to go until the winners are announced, the battle is hotting up to determine the UK’s favourite racing video game.

ITV sign up as media partner of The 28th Golden Joystick Awards

The Golden Joystick Awards announce that ITN’s Game On will be their media partner for this year’s event, to be held in London on 29th October.

Mark Browning, Managing Director at ITN Productions said, “As the UK’s leading entertainment show on video gaming online, we’re delighted to be working with the UK’s biggest games awards. We look forward to creating exciting Joysticks related content for Game On users in the run up to the event.”

TIGA Wins ‘Trade Association of the Year 2010’

TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, last night scooped two awards at the annual Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards – ‘The Member Recruitment Award’ and the top award ‘Trade Association of the Year 2010’. TIGA also received a commendation for its ‘Sector Representation’ work.

"Gardenscapes" video game by Playrix – Great Game Awards 2010 Nominee

Playrix Entertainment, developer and publisher of Fishdom, Royal Envoy, Call of Atlantis, Gardenscapes, 4 Elements and other casual games, is pleased to announce that its bestselling hidden object title Gardenscapes has been nominated as the Most Addictive Game by the Second GameHouse Great Game Awards 2010 along with four other finalists. The winners in all categories will be announced July 19 within the framework of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, WA, USA.

Guinness World Records honours the best of video gaming at E3 2010

Guinness World Records®, the global authority on record-breaking achievements, traveled to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center to recognize the best of the video game industry. During the premier three-day tradeshow for computer and video game products, top interactive companies were officially honored for their record-breaking achievements by Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition Editor Gaz Deaves.

Shortlists for world’s most popular video game awards

The world’s videogame community can now cast their votes following a classic year for videogame releases as the 28th annual Golden Joystick Awards announce the shortlists for this year’s awards.

Nearly 270,000 votes have already been cast in the long list stage that saw the introduction of a number of new categories.

Assassin's Creed 2 grabs seven gold awards at MI6 conference

MI6, the association dedicated to supporting marketing, promotion and advertising professionals in the video game and interactive entertainment community, hosted a festive awards show to honor the best marketing work in the video game industry, wrapping up the action-packed fifth annual MI6 Conference. Comedian Ryan Stout hosted the evening and kept the crowd laughing. Assassin’s Creed 2 took home the most gold with seven MI6 Awards, including the highly competitive “Outstanding Overall Integrated Marketing Campaign” award.

Miyamoto awarded BAFTA Academy Fellowship in the Video Games Sector

Shigeru Miyamoto's career began in 1977, when he was hired by a family friend - Hiroshi Yamauchi, then president of Nintendo - as a staff artist. Yamauchi selected Miyamoto to re-work the company's unsuccessful arcade machine Radar Scope and, after working on a range of new options, Miyamoto eventually settled on the characters and composition which became one of the first running-and-jumping "platform" games, Donkey Kong.

2010 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards results - here's the winners....

UK British Academy Video Games Awards 2010 - the winners
Action

Assassin’s Creed II
Sebastien Puel, Patrice Desilets
Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Development Team
Rocksteady Studios/Eidos

Video game legend - David Jones wins double honours at Directors of the Year Awards

Institute of Directors, Scotland, Present Realtime Worldsı Founder and Creative Director with two Prestigious Awards. Dundee, Scotland , March 19th, 2010, Realtime Worlds, the leading British independent video game developer, can announce founder and creative director, David Jones, has been awarded Director of the Year 2009 by the Institute of Directors, Scotland.

British Academy video game Award nominations 2010

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves leads with 9 BAFTA nominationsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 garners 8 nominationsBatman: Arkham Asylum follows with 7 and Assassin's Creed II with 6

The Academy announce the nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. This year 40 different games have been recognized and together they represent some of the most popular, innovative and cutting-edge creativity in today’s gaming industry.