The outcomes are in and the Finnish Recreation Awards 2023 simply wrapped.
Regardless of cell’s reputation and profitability, its key power is accessibility, and as such the platform is commonly neglected at gaming awards worldwide… However how did cell do at tonight’s Finnish Recreation Awards? In any case, Finland is the religious residence of cell gaming so certainly there’s loads of love coming cell’s method?
The primary of the so-called “most important awards” was the all-important Small Display Recreation of the Yr award, offered by Suomen Pelikmehittajat board vice chair Joni Lappalainen and chair of the board Jussi Loukianen.
“Small display is for cell, and as everybody is aware of Finland has an enormous and lengthy historical past with cell video games,” stated Lappalainen. “I believe at present’s nominees additionally share the identical DNA and the identical footprints.”
The six nominees had been:
Phrase Buddies
Badland Social gathering
Offroad Unchained
Nerf: Superblast
Offended Birds Journey
Pako Freeway…
And…
Tree Males Video games emerged victorious with Pako Freeway, which mixes parts of the racing and countless runner genres.
Separate… However equal
Many business awards separate cell gaming into its personal class, out of competition for a few of the ceremony’s huge prizes. The Finnish video games business, nonetheless, has a larger reverence for cell gaming, as evidenced by Recreation Music Collective’s efficiency of the Offended Birds Theme Tune. As such, two of the six nominees for Small Display Recreation of the Yr – Offended Birds Journey and Pako Freeway – had been in competition for the Finnish Recreation of the Yr award, alongside Undead Horde 2: Necropolis, Voltage Excessive Society and Skabma – Snowfall.
And the winner is…
As soon as once more, it was Pako Freeway that emerged victorious, capping off a profitable evening by taking residence the award’s greatest prize. Congrats from all at PG.biz!
What does this imply for the broader business? Whereas it’s unlikely that even cell’s greatest studios can topple AAA giants in mainstream classes – but – Pako Freeway’s success reveals that it’s attainable for cell to show that it is the actual primary.
Meet the winners of tonight’s awards and extra once we head again to Helsinki for Pocket Gamer Connects in September.
