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The TIGA Games Industry Awards 2022 shortlists have been revealed!

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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. 

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Bitcoin Miner celebrates two years of hugely successful collaboration with ZBD

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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.

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UK Gaming Charity SpecialEffect to Receive Special Award at 20th BAFTA Games Awards

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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.

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The Rocket League Championship Series Major 2 Heads Back to Copper Box Arena in London This June

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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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