The Nominees For The International Mobile Gaming Awards Are.....

The nominees for the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGAs) were announced today with 30 games in six categories moving on to the final round of judging. Close to 500 games from all over the world were submitted for review by the international panel of experts: a record for the competition. The 30 nominees are:

Best Casual Game:

CreaVures - Muse Games, United States
HECTOR Episodes 1-3 - Telltale Games, United States
Jetpack Joyride - Halfbrick, Australia
Sprinkle - Mediocre ABS, weden
The Blocks Cometh - Halfbot, Canada

Best Real World Game:

CityRace - Cityrace.me, Poland
FLATMATES - Flaregames, Germany
Meatspace Invasion - C4MProd, France
NBA: King of the Court - Ogemnt*, United States
Shadow Cities - Grey Area, Finland

Best Sports Game:

Bike Baron - Mountain Sheep, Inc. / Qwiboo, London / Finland
Flick Tennis: College Wars - Rolocule Games, India
Sports Car Challenge - Fish Labs, Schade
Touchgrind BMX - Illusion Labs AB, Sweden
Trial Xtreme 2 - Deemedya M.S. LTD, Israel

Best Mobile Social Game:

Charadium II - On5, Lithuania
Funpark Friends - Tagplay, UK
Poker Pals - Aspyr Media, Inc, USA
SpellCraft School of Magic - Appy Entertainment, United States
The Pirate King - Bulkypix, France

Excellence In Gameplay:

Battleheart - Mika Mobile, Inc., USA
Contre Jour HD - Mokus Games LLP, Ukraine
Death Rally - Remedy Entertainment, Finland
DrawRace 2 HD - RedLynx, Finland
Infinity Blade II - Chair Entertainment, USA

Most Innovative Game:

Forever Drive - Tak Fung, UK
Kod - Fabrication Games Europe AB, Sweden
KuraKuraMaze - Yoshimi Kurihara, Japan
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery - EP Capy, Canada
WildChords - Ovelin, Finland

On the 1st March the IMGA will announce the winners during the IMGA Summit and Awards ceremony, a conference held at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

During the last seven years the IMGA has reviewed more than 2,000 mobile games from more than 52 countries including the USA, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, China, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Belgium. Participants include PhD students, researchers, artists, individual developers and the top ten mobile games publishers and developers in the world. The winners in each category for this year�s awards will be announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.

The winners will receive Euro100,000 of free publicity from ProSieben Sat1 Games, one of the IMGA�s Platinum sponsors, with the overall winner receiving Euro 400,000 of free publicity.

IMGA Awards: http://www.imgawards.com/index.php