Gaming
The TIGA Games Industry Awards 2022 shortlists have been revealed!
The TIGA Games Industry Awards 2022 shortlist can now be revealed, ahead of the November 10th awards ceremony.
The Awards are returning as an in-person event after two years online due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“We have had a fantastic response from industry and education to the return of the TIGA Games Industry Awards as a live event,” said Dr Richard Wilson OBE, CEO of TIGA. “Congratulations to all of our Finalists. We look forward to welcoming you to the awards ceremony in November.”
The TIGA Awards 2022 finalists are:
Action and Adventure Game
Death’s Door – Acid Nerve/ Devolver Digital
Fracked – nDreams
Haven Park – Mooneye Studios
Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment/Guerrilla Games
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One – Frogwares
Sniper Elite 5 – Rebellion
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Supermassive Games
The Occulist – Pentakill Studios
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Gearbox Software
Arcade Game
Arcade Paradise – Wired Productions
Beatstar – Touch Your Music – Space Ape Games
Climate Change: Global Manager – Friday Sundae
Dashpong – Victor Meunier
Hungry Shark World – Ubisoft Future Games of London
Spellbook Demonslayers Prologue – Xendra
Casual Game
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure – ustwo Games
Her Name Was Fire – Tissue Inu
Hypercharge: Unboxed – Digital Cybercherries
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – ARTE France/IKO/The Pixel Hunt
Megaquarium – Auroch Digital
Perfect Coffee 3D – Kwalee
PowerWash Simulator – FuturLab
Trivial Pursuit Live! – Snap Finger Click
Wobbledogs – Animal Uprising
Audio Design
A Musical Story – Digerati
Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom – Gearbox Publishing
Honor of Kings: Miyamoto Musashi – TiMi Studio Group
Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment/Guerrilla
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – ARTE France/IKO/The Pixel Hunt:
Martha is Dead – Wired Productions
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Eidos Montreal
The Quarry – Supermassive Games
Total War: Warhammer III – Creative Assembly
Creativity in Games
Bloodshore – Wales Interactive
Card Shark – Nerial/Devolver Digital
Clays Bar – Clays
Epic Chef – Team17 Digital
Outcore: Desktop Adventure – Doctor Shinobi
Sniper Elite 5 – Rebellion
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Supermassive Games
The Serpent Rogue – Team17 Digital
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – Wales Interactive
Diversity
OlliOlli World – Roll7
Putting The G into Gaming
Spells & Secrets – Alchemist Interactive
Women in Games
Educational, Serious or Simulation Game
Arcade Paradise – Wired Productions
Atomic Labs – Fish in a Bottle
Horrible Histories: Raid and Trade – BBC/Playerthree
Imagine Earth – Serious Brothers UG
Jojo and Gran Gran: Letters to St Lucia – BBC/Jollywise
LEGO® DUPLO® MARVEL – StoryToys
Mars Horizon – Auroch Digital
PowerWash Simulator – FuturLab
The Fermi Paradox – Anomaly Games
Heritage in Games
Airforce Action Stations – Friday Sundae
Antstream Arcade – Antstream
Card Shark – Nerial
Climate Change: Global Manager – Friday Sundae
Hungry Shark World – Ubisoft Future Games of London
Sniper Elite 5 – Rebellion
Svoboda 1945: Liberation – Charles Games
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – Wales Interactive
Puzzle Game
Airforce Action Stations – Friday Sundae
Eternal Threads – Cosmonaut Studio
Gordon Ramsay’s Chef Blast – Outplay Entertainment
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – ARTE France/Iko/The Pixel Hunt
Kredolis – Pharos Interactive
Lost Twins 2 – Playdew
Moss: Book II – Polyarc
Surviving the Humans – Surprised Monkey Studio
We Were Here Forever – Total Mayhem Games
Social Game
Big Brother: The Game 2 – 9th Impact
Core Keeper – Fireshine Games
RoPets – Supersolid
Smack the Table – Basalikum
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Supermassive Games
The Quarry – Supermassive Games
Trivial Pursuit Live! 2 – Snap Finger Click
Strategy Game
Climate Change: Global Manager – Friday Sundae
Imagine Earth – Serious Brothers UG
Indies’ Lies – Fun Square Games
Jupiter Moons: Mecha – Rock&Bushes
SIEGE: World War II – Imperia Online JSC
Space Menace – Only4Gamers
The Fabulous Fear Machine – Fictiorama Studios
Total War: WARHAMMER III – Creative Assembly
Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus – Snowprint Studios
Visual Design
Card Shark – Nerial
Death’s Door – Acid Nerve/Devolver
Dubium – MUMO Studio
Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment/Guerrilla
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – Arte France/Iko/The Pixel Hunt
Martha is Dead – Wired Productions
Moss: Book II – Polyarc
OlliOlli World – Roll7
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Gearbox Software
VR/AR Game
Clays Bar – Clays
Fracked – nDreams
Little Cities – nDreams
Moss: Book II – Polyarc
RUINSMAGUS – CharacterBank Inc.
The Green Planet AR Experience, Powered by EE 5G – Factory 42
We Are One – Flat Head Studio
Art/Animation/Trailer Supplier
1518 Studios (Part of the PTW family of Brands)
Airship Interactive
Atomhawk
Liquid Crimson
Audio Services
PitStop Productions
SIDE Global
Soundcuts
Tazman Audio
Education Initiative
Airship Interactive
Birmingham City University
Dovetail Games
London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
Lucid Games
nDreams Academy
Norwich University of the Arts
Staffordshire University
Sumo Digital
University of Hertfordshire
University of the West of England
University of Portsmouth
Educational Institution
Birmingham City University
Bournemouth University
Escape Studios
London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
Norwich University of the Arts
Sheffield Hallam University
Staffordshire University
University of Greenwich
University of Hertfordshire
University of Portsmouth
QA Provider
GlobalStep
PTW
Testronic
Universally Speaking
Tax and Accountancy Company
Sky Life Accountancy
RSM UK
MMP Tax
Recruitment Agency
Aardvark Swift
Amiqus
Avatar
Tools, Technology & Innovation
Antstream
Epic Games
Guerrilla
Panivox
Speech Graphics
Tazman-Audio
Legal Services
Bird & Bird LLP
Eaton Smith LLP
Lewis Silkin LLP
Stevens & Bolton LLP
Wiggin LLP
Services Provider
Airship Interactive
Games Jobs Direct
Liquid Crimson
Maverick Media
PitStop Productions
PTW Family of Brands
Renaissance PR
Soundcuts
S-Tech Insurance Services (GameS-Tech)
Tazman-Audio
Universally Speaking
Small Studio
Cosmonaut Studios
Digerati
Fireshine Games
Hugecalf Studios
Snowprint Studios
Trailmix
Total Mayhem Games
Ustwo Games
Wired Productions
Large Studio
Auroch Digital
Dovetail Games
Guerrilla
Kwalee
Lucid Games
nDreams
Outplay Entertainment
Rebellion
Space Ape Games
Sumo Digital
Supermassive Games
Commitment to CSR
Dovetail Games
PlayStation London Studio
SIDE | PTW
Sumo Group
Testronic.
Employer of the Year
Atomhawk
Dovetail Games
Sumo Group
Outstanding Leadership
Bobby Thandi, CEO, XR Games
Dr Tomas Rawlings, Auroch Digital
Gary Dunn, MD, Sumo Digital
Karen McLoughlin, Group Director of HR, Sumo Group
Kaya Tilev, CEO, Lava Labs
Patrick O’Luanaigh, CEO, nDreams
Ryan Davies, Head of Digital Marketing, Kwalee
Simon Hade and John Earner, Co-Founders, Space Ape Games
Simon Iwaniszak, Studio Director, Red Kite Games
Simon Platt, Head of Development, Kwalee
Viki Freeman, Workship Strategy Director, Airship Interactive
Publisher of the Year
Dovetail Games
nDreams
Kwalee
Rebellion
Secret Mode
Sony Interactive Entertainment
The TIGA Awards 2022 ceremony will take place on the evening of Thursday 10th November at Church House Westminster
A limited number of tickets are on sale now.
The TIGA Awards are made possible thanks to supporters of the not-for-profit organisation. Sponsors of the awards include (Gold Sponsors) Amiqus, Sumo Group, Supermassive Games and Ubisoft; (Silver Sponsors) Abertay University, Airship, Aardvark Swift, Dovetail Games, Game Jobs Director, Hangar 13, Liquid Crimson, Pearson, Space Ape Games, Staffordshire University, Universally Speaking and the University of Portsmouth; (Bronze Sponsors) Antstream, Birmingham City University, Bournemouth University, CCP Games, Creative Wales, Eaton Smith LLP, MMP Tax, Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, Outplay, Payload Studios, PTW, RSM, S-Tech Insurance Services, Stevens & Bolton LLP, Tazman Audio, Testronic and Worldmakers; plus (Drinks Sponsor) Kwalee.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Miner celebrates two years of hugely successful collaboration with ZBD
Bitcoin Miner, the world’s number one Bitcoin game, is celebrating two years of its collaboration with ZBD, a leading fintech company powering digital economies for gamers and developers. Since the partnership began, Bitcoin Miner has gone from a forgotten title with no players to becoming one of the largest play-and-earn games ever, with over 2 million lifetime users.
ZBD’s Lightning-powered payments technology enables developers to inject instant rewards into their games to boost retention and community engagement. Fumb Games, the studio behind Bitcoin Miner, partnered with ZBD in March 2022 to help revive its flagship title, enabling it to reward players with fragments of Bitcoin for playing the game as normal. From the outset, the integration of ZBD’s tech had a marked impact, leading to a 12x boost in 30-day retention. Two years on, Bitcoin Miner is achieving 40,000 daily active users, making it the biggest Bitcoin game by user count.
Besides the retention benefit of rewards, which leads to player retention that exceeds 6 months, the success of Bitcoin Miner has also been fueled by community-based features such as regular live events. The majority of Bitcoin Miner players are US-based millennial males who enjoy engaging with gaming communities, with weekly events leading to a 20% increase in revenue. As well as its own community of engaged players, Bitcoin Miner benefits from the ZBD app user base of more than a million gamers.
Paul West, Founder of Fumb Games, said “Bitcoin Miner has proven that US players love games that are fun, snackable and rewarding. The game is not only sustainable, but has soared to new heights since the partnership with ZBD. It’s no surprise that I’m very excited for the future of bitcoin and player-friendly rewarded games.”
Ben Cousens, Chief Strategy Officer at ZBD, said “The two-year collaboration with Paul and Fumb Games on Bitcoin Miner has been a quintessential success story for what we’re building at ZBD. It proves the value in offering rewards for gamers and the success of ZBD’s rewards and payments tech at making it possible at speed and scale. We will no doubt see further impressive numbers for Bitcoin Miner that cement its status as world’s number one Bitcoin game, and we also look forward to extending the potential benefits of Bitcoin rewards to more developers.”
In November 2023, Fumb Games also integrated ZBD’s technology in its idle tycoon RPG SpaceY. ZBD works with more than 100 game developers worldwide, including major brands such as Square Enix, and is also used by innovative adtech companies like Slice and AdInMo.
Gaming
UK Gaming Charity SpecialEffect to Receive Special Award at 20th BAFTA Games Awards
BAFTA has announced that UK gaming charity SpecialEffect, will receive the prestigious Special Award at the 20th BAFTA Games Awards. The award, which recognises outstanding contributions to games, film and television, is one of the highest accolades bestowed by BAFTA. Dr Mick Donegan MBE, founder and CEO of SpecialEffect, will pick up the Special Award at the annual BAFTA Games Awards ceremony on Thursday 11 April.
In 2007, Mick Donegan founded SpecialEffect to help people with even the most severe physical challenges to access video games. The organisation uses specialised technology to enhance access to video games and creative self-expression for people with a wide range of Disabilities.
SpecialEffect’s success began as a result of the collaboration between Mick, a specialist in assistive technology and his son Bill, a keen gamer with a background in product design. Since its creation, the charity has grown to thirty employees, raising all their own funds, and has provided specialist one-to-one assessments and support to severely disabled people throughout the UK and beyond.
Dr Mick Donegan MBE, SpecialEffect founder and CEO, said: “With a background in special education, I realised how much people with severe physical disabilities were missing out by not being able to play. I started SpecialEffect not only to help individuals to play video games but also to collaborate with the games industry to make their games more accessible ‘at source’. Since then, we have been privileged to be invited to share our ideas with more and more developers all over the world. Now, 17 years since SpecialEffect began, it’s an absolute honour for SpecialEffect’s work to be recognised by BAFTA.”
Emma Baehr, BAFTA executive director of awards and content, said: “SpecialEffect’s work is essential to the games world and is hugely deserving of a BAFTA Special Award. Their innovative and supportive approach to making games accessible drives progress within the industry, collaborating with developers and studios on new technologies to make games within reach to more people. We look forward to honouring their contribution to games at the ceremony on Thursday 11 April.”
Throughout the years, SpecialEffect has been involved in collaborating with Xbox, Sony and Logitech, to help design accessible controllers and a switch kit, enabling thousands more severely disabled players to access their games using a wide range of control devices. They have also worked with games studios and developers to help make their games more accessible. The organisation also developed EyeMine, a freely downloadable gaze-controlled interface to enable players to enjoy Minecraft through gaze-control alone.
Later this year will see the rollout of their EyeGaze Games (currently available on PC only) onto Android and iOS, games designed to be fully accessible for people with physical disabilities, whether they use gaze control, joysticks, switches or gamepads.
Gaming
The Rocket League Championship Series Major 2 Heads Back to Copper Box Arena in London This June
The Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) returns to Copper Box Arena in London, UK for the second Major of 2024 from June 20-23.
Copper Box Arena hosted a sold out RLCS Spring Major in 2022 and saw Team Vitality defeat Team BDS in the final. The venue will again play host to the world’s best Rocket League players as they compete for the second trophy of 2024, a chance to win the lion’s share of a $255,000 in total prize pool winnings and earn additional RLCS points to secure a spot in the Rocket League World Championship in September.
The RLCS Major 2 will be broadcast on Twitch and YouTube from June 20-21, and welcome a live audience in the Copper Box Arena for the weekend competition on June 22-23. Tickets go on general sale beginning at 10:00 AM GMT on Friday, March 29, and the direct link to purchase tickets can be found on the Rocket League esports social accounts. There are three presale windows for O2 Priority customers, Live Nation users and Ticketmaster users.
BLAST and Rocket League esports have teamed up with Live Nation, one of the world’s largest live entertainment companies to help support and promote the RLCS Major 2 coming to London in June 2024.
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