The distinguished MENA Video games Trade Awards 2024 are coming!
Celebrating the very best companies and people driving the video games trade ahead within the Center East and North Africa area, nominations at the moment are open for the 13 award classes that span all features of the thriving MENA video games ecosystem.
However be fast – nominations shut Sunday seventh April!
Going down in the course of the Dubai GameExpo Summit stay on stage on the Dubai World Commerce Centre, these awards goal to shine a highlight on the sport builders, publishers, monetisation providers, instruments suppliers, traders, and legends which can 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 Could 1st and 2nd alongside the bigger Dubai Esports and Video games Pageant occasion in partnership with the Dubai Financial system & Tourism division to convey 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 checklist of classes you possibly can submit your nominations for:
Dubai Video games Star
This particular award recognises a Dubai-based video games firm who has demonstrated a substantial quantity of success, affect, and affect 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 advanced their enterprise, and made an affect on the trade by innovation, creativity and different initiatives – however has not essentially introduced a sport to market but.
Greatest Monetisation Service Supplier
This accolade is for firms that assist the MENA ecosystem by the enabling of monetisation by way of promoting or different means, and which can 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 Sport
Any MENA-based sport, 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 stay with as few hiccups as attainable, and are localised appropriately for goal MENA markets.
Greatest Esports Service
This award recognises and celebrates essentially the most impressively applied 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 function within the success and progress of an organization within the area throughout 2023.
Greatest Developer
Any MENA video games firm that has launched a sport, or efficiently grown an present sport, in the course of the previous yr, in addition to expanded their enterprise and made an affect on the trade by innovation, creativity and different initiatives.
Greatest Writer
Celebrating a MENA firm that has assisted builders in releasing a sport over the past yr, whether or not by publishing assist, advertising and marketing, co-development, or funding.
Greatest Web3 Gaming
Showcasing the corporate that’s bringing essentially the most impactful use of Web3 expertise to the MENA sport improvement scene.
MENA Sport of the Yr
This award recognises the best video games expertise launched final yr primarily based on creativity, play mechanics, technological, creative and aural achievement, innovation, viewers engagement, and each crucial and business success. To be eligible for this award, video games should 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 area.
The MENA Market Legend is a particular award, chosen immediately by the organisation committee of the MENA Video games Trade Awards.
Nominations for the entire above are NOW OPEN by way of easy on-line submission varieties. 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 Could 2 in the course of the Dubai GameExpo Summit.
With the MENA video games market anticipated to be price 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 Trade Awards will put the area’s prime skills within the international highlight they deserve.
