The GAM3 Awards 2024 has revealed its closing shortlist for a $5 million prize pool. Returning for its third 12 months, the annual web3 gaming occasion will, for the primary time, characteristic a bodily ceremony held within the Philippines in partnership with Yield Guild Video games (YGG).
The occasion serves because the grand finale for the YGG Play Summit, highlighting the Philippines’ vital function within the web3 gaming panorama. YGG Co-Founder Gabby Dizon acknowledged,
“The YGG Play Summit is concerning the avid gamers, in the beginning. It’s the most important web3 gaming shopper occasion of the 12 months. Because of this we’re so excited to host the 2024 GAM3 Awards right here in Manila. The actual gamers of all the most popular web3 video games might be there to vote and cheer for his or her favourite titles.”
GAM3S.GG has additionally partnered with Arbitrum, Magic Eden, Immutable, Avalanche, and Skale to reinforce this 12 months’s occasion. Since its inception in 2022, the GAM3 Awards have change into a landmark within the blockchain gaming trade, recognizing prime video games and creators. The awards have fun innovation throughout numerous genres and standards, reminiscent of artwork course and probably the most anticipated video games.
In 2023, the occasion noticed over 450,000 votes forged from 50,000 distinctive voters. The ceremony was streamed on-line, attracting over 50,000 dwell viewers and peaking at greater than 36,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch. Winners shared a prize pool of $2 million, with the web3 buying and selling card recreation Parallel taking a number of awards, together with “Sport of the 12 months.”
GAM3S.GG Co-Founder and CEO Omar Ghanem remarked,
“That is the third 12 months we run these awards, and we actually needed to do one thing particular this time. The Philippines has lengthy been one of many fundamental hubs for web3 gaming, and a number of the earliest adopters and most passionate group members are based mostly proper right here.
That’s why it solely feels proper that our first ever bodily model of the GAM3 Awards takes place on the coronary heart of Manila—the guts of web3 gaming.”
This 12 months’s awards embody all classes from the earlier version and introduce two new ones: Greatest Ecosystem and Greatest Browser Sport, bringing the full to 21 classes. The “Greatest Graphics” award returns underneath the brand new title “Greatest Artwork Route” to honor creativity and distinctive artwork types with out overemphasizing high-fidelity graphics.
The GAM3 Awards will characteristic unique trailers and bulletins from main studios, providing attendees a preview of a number of the most anticipated web3 video games in growth. These premieres have change into fan favorites, with titles like Riftstorm debuting in earlier editions.
Over 70 distinguished figures from conventional and blockchain gaming will take part, together with representatives from Amazon, Google, Samsung, Ubisoft, Animoca Manufacturers, Immutable, Arbitrum, Blockchain Sport Alliance, Base, Ronin, and Avalanche.
For many classes, the voting course of assigns 90% of the ultimate choice to the jury and 10% to the group, aside from Folks’s Alternative and Greatest Content material Creator, that are completely community-based. Shortlisted recreation studios voting for his or her favourite title determines the Video games’ Alternative award.
The nominees embody seventeen blockchain networks, highlighting the trade’s variety and innovation. The highest 5 networks within the closing shortlists are Immutable, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Solana.
The Sport of the 12 months finalists are Off The Grid, Pirate Nation, Parallel, Nyan Heroes, and Pixels. Voting begins on Oct. 15 and runs till Nov. 15 on GAM3S. GG’s platform. For the whole record of nominees, go to gam3awards.com.
This 12 months’s prize pool has elevated to $5 million, together with grants, merchandise, companies, advertising, and blockchain help from companions reminiscent of AWS, XAI, Thirdweb, Aethir, and Neighborhood Gaming. This substantial enhance highlights the occasion’s dedication to supporting the following technology of web3 video games.
The GAM3 Awards 2024 goals to be probably the most vital occasion in web3 gaming to this point. Attendees can stay up for unique content material, main bulletins, leisure performances, and celebrating the creativity defining web3 gaming. The occasion is scheduled for Nov. 22.