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International Mobile Gaming Awards' top 25

Posted Oct 19, 2006 at 02:17AM by Tim Y. Listed in: Cellular Games, Cellular News Tags: Japan, South Korea, IMGA, UK, Spain, France
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IGMAThe International Mobile Gaming Awards announced yesterday the 25 games that topped out in their annual awardings - five more than they previously predicted.

These 25 are the best among the 400 entries during this years' festivities, with a total of 42 countries participating in the IMGA; 46% from Europe, 30% from  Asia, 15% from North America, and 9% coming from the rest of the world.

The IMGA, sponsored this year by major companies like Nokia, NVIDIA, and Orange, aims to provide recognition for the most innovative and creative games around the world, and is divided up into five separate categories, with the top 25 divided within each:

  1. Best Interactive Experience Award
  2. Best Use of Connectivity
  3. Excellence in 3D Award
  4. Most Innovative Game Award
  5. Best Use of Flash Award
Some of the more interesting concepts shown by the entries included educationally-themed ideas, like ways of teaching foreign languages to the players, or teaching them how to dance. One notable idea was the use of localization technology (layman's terms: cell sites), with over 100 participants playing an interactive outdoors game (outdoors, video games...that doesn't add up) titled Triangler, developed by the Holland-based TNO research lab.

Without further ado, the winners for the preliminaries (in no specific order):
  • Dance Star - Lanetro Zed - Spain
  • Triangler - TNO - The Netherlands
  • SIL - Telco Games - UK
  • Sketcher - Zio Interactive - South Korea
  • Wireless West - Zinkia Entertainment - Spain
  • Mega Monster - Firemint - Australia
  • Blades & Magic - Fishlabs - Germany
  • Bruce Lee - Indiagames - India
  • Drakulin - RTZ Interactive - Spain
  • Raging Thunder - Polarbit AB - Sweden
  • Lament Island - Sim Life - China
  • Rollercoaster Rush - Digital Chocolate - USA
  • Dance Arena - Flamix Co Ltd - Thailand
  • Tornado Mania! - Digital Chocolate - USA
  • 3D Tilt a World - SuperHappyFunFun - USA
  • Neopets Mobile - In-Fusio - France
  • goSupermodel - Watagame - Denmark
  • IMO (I on Mobile Online) - Come2Us - South Korea
  • Anima Wars - Anino Mobile - Philippines
  • Puzzle Bobble On Line! - Taito Corporation - Japan
  • Crazy Matches - IKS Mobile - Poland
  • Street Duel - Mobitween - France
  • KooZac - Ben Cusack - UK
  • Synchro - Sai Chung Tam - China
  • Time Noodle - Comic Factory - Japan
Winners of the IGMA will be announced this February at the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The current line-up will get a chance to win a share of the $40,000 prize money at stake, with an additional $15,000 for the Grand Prix winner. For more information on the top 25, see the source link below.

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