THE FINALISTS

DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS

Recruitment Agency of the Year
Aardvark Swift
Amiqus
Avatar Games Recruitment
Be Different
Datascope
Eleven Eleven
One Player Mission
Skillsearch

Creative / Co-development Partner of the Year
Airship Interactive
Code Wizards
Room 8 Group
SIDE
Sumo Digital
Super Spline Studios
Warp Digital
Xsolla

QA / Localisation Partner of the Year
Allcorrect
Keywords Studios
Lionbridge
LocalSoft
PTW
Testronic
TransPerfect
Universally Speaking

Studios & Publishing

Major Studio of the Year
Codemasters
Creative Assembly
Frontier Developments
Jagex
nDreams
Rebellion
Sumo Digital
Supermassive Games

Indie Studio of the Year
FuturLab
Hello Games
INTERIOR/NIGHT
Nosebleed Interactive
Payload
Purple Yonder
ustwo games
Wales Interactive

Major Publisher of the Year
Bandai Namco
Electronic Arts
Kwalee
Outright Games
SEGA
Sony
Wizards of the Coast
Xbox Game Studios

Indie Publisher of the Year
Fireshine Games
Kepler Interactive
Playstack
Secret Mode
Slitherine Software
Team17
Wired Productions
Yogscast Games

Digital & Physical

Digital Distributor / Retailer of the Year
Epic Games Store
Fanatical
Green Man Gaming
Meta Store
Microsoft Store
Nintendo eShop
Playstation Store

Physical Distributor / Retailer of the Year
Amazon
Argos
Contact Sales
Funstock
GAME
Kalypso
ShopTo

Innovation In Games

Hardware Innovation of the Year
Evercade EXP (Blaze Entertainment)
Playdate (Panic Inc)
Razer Blade 15 2022 (Razer)
Split Pad Compact (Hori)
Steam Deck (Valve)
The A500 Min (Retro Games Ltd)
VelocityOne Flight (Turtle Beach)

Visual Innovation of the Year
Card Shark (Nerial/Devolver Digital)
F1 22 (Codemasters/Electronic Arts)
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (TT Games/Warner Bros. Games)
Need For Speed Unbound (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts)
OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division)
Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
Total War: Warhammer 3 (Creative Assembly/SEGA)
Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios / SEGA)

Audio Innovation of the Year
F1 22 (Codemasters/Electronic Arts)
Far: Changing Tides (Okomotive/Frontier Foundry)
Ixion (Bulwark Studios/Kasedo Games)
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (TT Games/Warner Bros. Games)
Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders w/ Warp Digital/Funcom)
Rollerdrome (Roll7/Private Division)
Sniper Elite 5 (Rebellion)

Accessibility Innovation of the Year
As Dusk Falls (INT.NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios)
Grapple Dog (Medallion Games/Super Rare Originals)
Need For Speed Unbound (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts)
Sniper Elite 5 (Rebellion)
The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K Games)
Trivial Pursuit Live! 2 (Snap Finger Click/Ubisoft)
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? (Wales Interactive)

Narrative Innovation of the Year
A Little to the Left (Max Inferno/Secret Mode)
As Dusk Falls (INT.NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios)
Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
Desta: The Memories Between (ustwo games)
Eternal Threads (Cosmonaut Studios/Secret Mode)
GRID Legends (Codemasters/Electronic Arts)
Not for Broadcast (NotGames/tinyBuild)
The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games/Playstack)

Gameplay Innovation of the Year
Arcade Paradise (Nosebleed Interactive/Wired Productions)
Kynseed (PixelCount Studios)
Little Cities (Purple Yonder/nDreams)
PlateUp! (It’s happening/Yogscast Games)
Rollerdrome (Roll7/Private Division)
Strange Horticulture (Bad Viking/Iceberg Interactive)
The Entropy Centre (Stubby Games/Playstack)
Total War: Warhammer 3 (Creative Assembly/SEGA)

Reaching Audiences

Media Brand of the Year
Bitmap Books
Eurogamer
IGN
NME
People Make Games
Pocket Tactics
TheGamer
VGC

PR Agency of the Year
Bastion
Big Games Machine
Dead Good PR
Honest PR
Lick PR
Premier Games
Renaissance
Swipe Right

Creative Agency of the Year
Fluid
Fourth Floor Creative
ICHI Worldwide
Neonhive
TakeOFF
YRS TRULY

Campaign of the Year
Bastion for Ballantine’s x Borderlands: The Game
EA Sports for FIFA – The Women’s Football Summit
Explosive Alan for Mental Health Foundation
Fireshine Games for Core Keeper
Fourth Floor Creative for Two Point Campus
Renaissance/Wired Productions for Martha is Dead
Swipe Right and Coffee Stain Publishing for Goat Simulator: The Musical Motion Picture
Warner Bros. Games for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Event of the Year
Develop:Brighton
EGX
Insomnia Gaming Festival
London Games Festival
PGC London
Scottish Games Week
WASD

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