The
8th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) took place in Barcelona today, with Chair Entertainment's graphical powerhouse
Infinity Blade 2 proclaimed the Grand Prix winner.
The Pocket Gamer Gold Award-winning slash-'em-up also won the individual category it was nominated in - Excellence in Gameplay - beating off strong competition from the likes of
Death Rally and
Contre Jour.
Mediocre's anything-but-mediocre
Sprinkle hosed down pre-awards favourite
Jetpack Joyride and
The Blocks Cometh to win Best Casual Game, while the uniquely odd
Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP walked away with the Most Innovative award in the face of stiff opposition from the likes of Supermono's
Forever Drive.
The comic strip-cum-sports title
Flick Tennis: College Wars walked back to the locker room with the People's Choice award, voted for by visitors to the official website of the event.
Going for goldThe International Mobile Gaming Awards, which are handed out on the final day of Mobile World Congress, are voted on by a panel made up of top industry officials and mobile journalists.
Judges this year included
Pocket Gamer's own Chris James and Jon Jordan, as well as a dashingly handsome young deputy editor who may or may not be writing the article you're currently reading.
The full list of nominees and winners can be found below:
Grand PrixWINNER:
Infinity Blade 2 (Chair Entertainment)
People's ChoiceWINNER:
Flick Tennis: College Wars (Rolocule Games)
Excellence in GameplayWINNER:
Infinity Blade 2 (Chair Entertainment)
Contre Jour (Mokus Games)
Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
Drawrace 2 HD (RedLynx)
Death Rally (Remedy Entertainment)
Best Casual GameWINNER:
Sprinkle (Mediocre)
Hector Episodes 1-3 (Telltale Games)
Jetpack Joyride (Halfbrick)
The Blocks Cometh (Halfbot)
CreaVures (Muse Games)
Best Mobile Social GameWINNER:
Charadium II (On5)
Funpark Friends (Tagplay)
Poker Pals (Aspyr Media)
SpellCraft School of Magic (Appy Entertainment)
The Pirate King (Bulkypix)
Best Real World GameWINNER:
Meatspace Invasion (C4M)
CityRace (Cityrace.me)
Flatmates (Flaregames)
NBA: King of the Court (Ogmento)
Shadow Cities (Grey Area)
Most Innovative GameWINNER:
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Superbrothers, Capy, Jim Guthrie)
Forever Drive (Supermono)
Kodo (Fabrication Games Europe)
Kurakuramaze (Zacozaco)
Wildchords (Ovelin)
Best Sports GameWINNER:
Touchgrind BMX (Illusion Labs)
Flick Tennis: College Wars (Rolocule Games)
Bike Baron (Mountain Sheep & Qwiboo)
Sports Car Challenge (Fishlabs)
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jeffyg3 | 06:52 - 2 March 2012
Eh, I found Modern Combat 3's single player to be very very mediocre, multiplayer was decent though. TinTin was actually good though easy. The rest of their games in the past year are horribly overrated and crap or mediocre. Gameloft has really gone down hill in the past year or so, not surprised they didn't make the list one bit.
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motaroo | 18:36 - 1 March 2012
gameloft is the leader of the market
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motaroo | 18:34 - 1 March 2012
best game is modern combat 3
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