GAM3 Awards 2024: Final Shortlist Revealed for $5M Prize Pool

It’s that point of the yr, avid gamers! 

The extremely anticipated GAM3 Awards returns for the third yr in a row and it’s shaping as much as be even larger than ever. The annual web3 gaming celebration foremost occasion is about to succeed in new heights with extra thrilling recreation developments, extra rewards, new award classes, and for the primary time ever – a bodily ceremony alongside the livestream which had over 50,000 viewers tune in final yr.

GAM3S.GG has partnered with Yield Guild Video games (YGG), one of many world’s largest networks of web3 avid gamers, to convey the GAM3 awards ceremony bodily for the primary time. The occasion, which might be held and live-streamed instantly from the Philippines, because the grand finale for the YGG Play Summit, is a powerful testomony to the nation’s significance within the web3 gaming panorama, with most of the business’s earliest adopters and most passionate communities primarily based within the nation.

YGG Co-Founder Gabby Dizon, commented: “The YGG Play Summit is concerning the avid gamers, at first. It’s the most important web3 gaming client occasion of the yr. This is the reason we’re so excited to host the 2024 GAM3 Awards right here in Manila. The true 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 moreover partnered with Arbitrum, Magic Eden, Immutable, Avalanche, and Skale to make this yr’s occasion even larger and higher than earlier years. 

Initially launched in 2022, the GAM3 Awards have rapidly develop into a landmark occasion throughout the blockchain gaming business highlighting the highest video games and creators over the previous two years. By recognizing and celebrating excellent titles and creators, the awards spotlight innovation and excellence throughout numerous genres and standards, similar to artwork course and essentially the most anticipated video games. In 2023, the occasion noticed over 450,000 votes forged from 50,000 distinctive voters, additional showcasing the group’s position throughout the choice course of. 

The annual occasion—referred to by some as “the Grammys of Web3 Gaming”—was streamed on-line and achieved additional widespread success in 2023, with over 50,000 reside viewers, peaking at 36,000+ CCV on Twitch alone, and over 250,000 views within the first 24 hours post-broadcast. The occasion’s winners shared a prize pool of USD 2 million, with the web3 buying and selling card recreation Parallel taking residence essentially the most wins, together with “Recreation of the Yr.”

GAM3S.GG Co-Founder and CEO Omar Ghanem, commented: “That is the third yr we run these awards, and we actually wished to do one thing particular this time. The Philippines has lengthy been one of many foremost hubs for web3 gaming, and among the earliest adopters and most passionate group members are primarily based 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 yr’s awards see the return of all classes from the earlier set up and the addition of two new ones: Greatest Ecosystem and Greatest Browser Recreation – to make it 21 classes in complete. As well as, final yr’s “Greatest Graphics” award returns beneath a extra becoming title: “Greatest Artwork Route” to have a good time the creativity and distinctive artwork model of recreation titles with out excessively emphasizing high-fidelity graphics. 

As all the time, the GAM3 Awards will function unique trailers and bulletins from main studios, providing attendees a sneak peek at among the most anticipated web3 video games in improvement. These premieres have rapidly develop into fan favorites, with titles similar to Riftstorm making their debut look in earlier editions. This makes the occasion greater than only a celebration of the previous yr; it’s also an thrilling glimpse into what’s coming subsequent.

This yr’s occasion options over 70 outstanding conventional and blockchain gaming figures, with many returning jurors from earlier ceremonies. The various panel consists of representatives from powerhouses similar to Amazon, Google, Samsung, Ubisoft, Animoca Manufacturers, Immutable, Arbitrum, Blockchain Recreation Alliance, Base, Ronin, and Avalanche, in addition to content material creators and main media retailers similar to VentureBeat and Decrypt.

Very similar to earlier years, the voting course of will see the jury’s votes characterize 90% of the ultimate choice, with the group making up the remaining 10% for many classes besides Folks’s Selection and Greatest Content material Creator, that are each 100% group voting-based, and Video games’ Selection, which is predicated on shortlisted recreation studios voting for his or her favourite title recreation.

With 17 blockchain networks represented, the range and innovation showcased by the nominees spotlight the dynamic evolution of the gaming panorama. The highest 5 networks represented within the remaining shortlists are Immutable, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Solana.

The Recreation of the Yr finalist nominees are Off The Grid, Pirate Nation, Parallel, Nyan Heroes, and Pixels. For the total checklist of nominees, go to gam3awards.com. Closing voting begins October 15 and runs till November 15, instantly on GAM3S.GG’s platform on the GAM3 Awards web page.

As well as, among the many thrilling updates for the 2024 GAM3 Awards is the elevated $5 million prize pool, which consists of grants, merchandise, companies, advertising and marketing, and blockchain help from companions similar to AWS, XAI, Thirdweb, Aethir, and Neighborhood Gaming amongst others to assist finalists and winners develop even additional. This represents a considerable improve from earlier years and underscores the occasion’s dedication to supporting and fostering the following era of web3 video games. 

This yr’s GAM3 Awards is poised to be essentially the most important occasion in web3 gaming but. It is not simply an awards ceremony however a grand celebration of your complete business, showcasing the perfect video games, studios, and innovators within the house. Whether or not in-person or on-line, attendees can look ahead to an unforgettable expertise full of unique content material, main bulletins, leisure performances and a celebration of the creativity that defines web3 gaming.

The occasion additional solidifies its position because the premier occasion for web3 gaming. With a rising prize pool, a star-studded jury, thrilling new reveals, and all-round leisure worth, the 2024 GAM3 Awards is about to be a defining second on this quickly evolving business. Make sure that to vote on your favourite video games and creators right this moment and mark your calendar for November 22—it’s an occasion nobody within the web3 gaming world will wish to miss!

About GAM3S.GG

GAM3S.GG is a web3 gaming superapp with over 1M+ registered customers that curates and creates content material to highlight the highest video games and showcase opinions, guides, information, quests, annual awards, and extra. 

GAM3S.GG has constructed the #1 web3 gaming discovery platform over the previous 3 years, as they proceed to develop into the one-stop-shop for web3 gaming to assist onboard tens of millions of avid gamers, permitting them to have interaction with blockchain-powered video games in unprecedented methods and changing into the last word bookmark on each gamer’s machine. For extra data: www.gam3s.gg

About Yield Guild Video games

Yield Guild Video games (YGG) is a Web3 Guild Protocol that allows gamers and gaming guilds to seek out their group, uncover video games and stage up collectively. Its mission is to develop into the main community-based consumer acquisition platform in web3 gaming.

As a community of gaming guilds targeted on web3 video games, YGG is dedicated to offering alternatives for its members to realize success in web3 gaming by means of questing initiatives similar to Superquests and the Guild Development Program (GAP). These allow members to construct their onchain id by means of its achievement-based fame system.

From its roots within the Philippines to its international community of regional guilds and partnerships with over 100 blockchain video games and infrastructure tasks, YGG caters to an ever-expanding group of avid gamers and blockchain lovers.

About YGG Play Summit

The YGG Play Summit explores the intersection of gaming and the rising web3 ecosystem, that includes a hackathon, a convention, a recreation expo, and esports tournaments. It options alternatives for attendees to attach and supply beneficial insights into the way forward for gaming, digital possession, and the highest tasks of web3 globally.

The convention focuses on the enterprise of Web3 gaming and the way forward for the gaming business. Audio system embody founders and C-level executives from enterprise funds, crypto exchanges, protocols, and web3 wallets, alongside gaming studios, esports groups, guilds, and the gaming group.

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