GAM3 Awards 2023 just lately revealed its checklist of nominees. The GAM3 Awards is a serious Web3 gaming and awards ceremony. This yr, GAM3 partnered with Magic Eden, a well-liked decentralized market for all kinds of NFTs.
Greater than 70 conventional and web3 gaming specialists collect to determine which video games are one of the best in every class. The jury this yr consists of executives and leaders from Amazon, Google, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Samsung, and web3 gaming ecosystems in addition to VCs, media shops, and content material creators.
The prize pool for the successful video games this yr is greater than $2 million, and it comes from quite a lot of companions, together with Amazon, Magic Eden, AD Gaming, Extremely, Blockchain Gaming Alliance, Naavik, Aethir, and Horizon. It additionally consists of money grants, tech service credit, advertising help, sponsored tournaments, infrastructure help, and cloud gaming performance.
To assist create the preliminary checklist of nominees, 214 nominated video games have been first introduced to a jury comprised of greater than 70 members. Forty shortlisted video games have superior to the subsequent spherical, which is open for neighborhood voting beginning immediately, November 22, primarily based on standards together with gameplay, mechanics, replayability potential, “enjoyable” issue, accessibility, and total high quality.
Against this, the primary version of the 2022 awards featured 106 nominees, and the amount of certified video games with playable variations greater than doubled. This means the outstanding improvement of web3 gaming over the course of the earlier yr.
The highest 5 networks represented within the closing shortlists are Polygon, Ethereum, Immutable X, Arbitrum, and Avalanche. Of the 40 shortlisted video games, 9 blockchain networks have been represented. This yr marks Arbitrum’s first time receiving an award, with 4 of its video games making it to the ultimate spherical.
Recreation Of The Yr Award
The coveted “Game of the Year” title is fiercely contested amongst 5 contenders: Parallel, Massive Time, Deadrop, Wildcard, and NFL Rivals. Alongside this, an array of classes, from “Most Anticipated Recreation” to “Greatest Sports activities Recreation,” are current at this yr’s awards.
Full List of Nominees
Most Anticipated Recreation
- The Treeverse
- Shardbound
- Shrapnel
- Star Atlas
- Off The Grid
Greatest Graphics
- Wildcard
- Off The Grid
- Star Atlas
- Illuvium
- Shrapnel
Greatest Motion Recreation
- Metalcore
- My Pet Hooligan
- Deadrop
- Massive Time
- Illuvium
Greatest Cellular Recreation
- Mighty Actions Heroes
- NFL Rivals
- Axie Origins
- Fableborne
- Skyweaver
Greatest Journey Recreation
- Ember Sword
- The Beacon
- Illuvium
- Massive Time
- Phantom Galaxies
Greatest Informal Recreation
- My Pet Hooligan
- Sunflower Land
- Pixels
- Fableborne
- Axie Origins
Greatest RPG
- Blocklords
- Ember Sword
- Illuvium
- Massive Time
- Star Atlas
Greatest Shooter Recreation
- Mighty Motion Heroes
- EV.IO
- The Bornless
- Metalcore
- Deadrop
Greatest Technique Recreation
- Wildcard
- Blocklords
- Skyweaver
- Gods Unchained
- Parallel
Greatest Card Recreation
- Skyweaver
- Sorare
- Cross The Ages
- Gods Unchained
- Parallel
Greatest Multiplayer Recreation
- Deadrop
- Metalcore
- Massive Time
- Wildcard
- Parallel
Greatest Esports Recreation
- Wildcard
- Metalcore
- Deadrop
- Parallel
- EV.IO
Greatest On-Chain Recreation
- Wolf Recreation
- Gentle Towers
- Pirate Nation
- Star Atlas: SAGE Labs
- Citadel 2.0
Greatest Combating Recreation
- Champions Ascension
- AI Enviornment
- Titanborn
- Wreck League
- The King of Fighters ARENA
Greatest Sports activities Recreation
- Nitro Nation World Tour
- REVV Racing
- NFL Rivals
- Sorare
- Sparkball
