The distinguished MENA Video games Business Awards 2024 are coming!
Celebrating one of the best companies and people driving the video games trade ahead within the Center East and North Africa area, nominations are NOW OPEN for the 12 award classes that span all features of the thriving MENA video games ecosystem.
Happening in the course of the Dubai GameExpo Summit reside on stage on the Dubai World Commerce Centre, these awards intention to shine a highlight on the sport builders, publishers, monetisation companies, instruments suppliers, buyers, and legends which might be enabling the magic to occur throughout MENA’s quickly rising video games market.
The GameExpo Summit powered by Pocket Gamer Connects will happen on Might 1st and 2nd alongside the bigger Dubai Esports and Video games Competition occasion in partnership with the Dubai Financial system & Tourism division to deliver an unmissable video games convention expertise to the wonderful metropolis of Dubai, within the quickest rising area of the worldwide video games trade.
Right here’s the listing of classes you’ll be able to submit your nominations for – however be fast. Nominations finish Sunday seventh April!
Dubai Video games Star
This particular award recognises a Dubai-based video games firm who has demonstrated a substantial quantity of success, affect, and influence regardless of their comparatively latest arrival throughout the trade.
Greatest Video games Startup
Any MENA video games firm that has been established for 18 months or much less, has considerably developed their enterprise, and made an influence on the trade by innovation, creativity and different initiatives – however has not essentially introduced a recreation to market but.
Greatest Monetisation Service Supplier
This accolade is for firms that assist the MENA ecosystem by the enabling of monetisation through promoting or different means, and which might be serving to video games and builders on this fast-moving enterprise to develop their viewers.
Greatest Instrument Supplier
This award is open to any MENA-based firm that’s offering profitable, devoted instruments for builders that help within the creation of video games for all platforms.
Most Progressive Recreation
Any MENA-based recreation, launched in 2023, which pushes the boundaries of the sport dynamics – whether or not by play mechanics, technical achievements, or use of expertise itself – to ship a novel expertise for gamers.
Greatest Arabic Localisation
This accolade awards firms which have supported video games during the last yr within the areas of localisation, guaranteeing that each new releases and updates go reside with as few hiccups as doable, and are localised appropriately for goal MENA markets.
Greatest Esports Service
This award recognises and celebrates probably the most impressively carried out and strategically sustained MENA esport-related expertise of final yr.
Investor of the Yr
This award showcases an funding throughout the MENA video games trade that has performed an important position within the success and progress of an organization within the area throughout 2023.
Greatest Developer
Any MENA video games firm that has launched a recreation, or efficiently grown an present recreation, in the course of the previous yr, in addition to expanded their enterprise and made an influence on the trade by innovation, creativity and different initiatives.
Greatest Writer
Celebrating a MENA firm that has assisted builders in releasing a recreation over the past yr, whether or not by publishing assist, advertising, co-development, or funding.
Greatest Web3 Gaming
Showcasing the corporate that’s bringing probably the most impactful use of Web3 expertise to the MENA recreation improvement scene.
MENA Recreation of the Yr
This award recognises the best video games expertise launched final yr primarily based on creativity, play mechanics, technological, inventive and aural achievement, innovation, viewers engagement, and each crucial and industrial success. To be eligible for this award, video games will need to have been given a full launch throughout 2023.
MENA Market Legend
This illustrious lifetime achievement award recognises an individual from the MENA area who has achieved a substantial quantity of success of their profession and has acted as a pioneer in, and made an impressive contribution to, the regional video games house.
The MENA Market Legend is a particular award, chosen instantly by the organisation committee of the MENA Video games Business Awards.
Nominations for all the above are NOW OPEN through easy on-line submission types. However hurry. Nominations finish on Sunday…
Shortlists will then be voted on by the judging panel from with the winners unveiled at a celebratory awards ceremony on Might 2 in the course of the Dubai GameExpo Summit.
With the MENA video games market anticipated to be value over $5 billion by 2025, there has by no means been a greater time to acknowledge the driving forces behind this quickly accelerating trade.
Head over to the awards web site now to submit your favorite video games, firms, instruments, and leaders for consideration. The distinguished MENA Video games Business Awards will put the area’s prime skills within the world highlight they deserve.
