Gam3 Awards unveils 2024 winners for prime Web3 video games

The winners of the Gam3 Awards 2024 have been topped, with 21 winners revealed at a stay occasion in partnership with Yield Guild Video games (YGG).

This 12 months’s prize pool was $5 million, up from $2 million for final 12 months’s awards.

Off the Grid, a high-end battle royale recreation, received Recreation of the Yr. The organizers stated this 12 months’s winners are a celebration of how far the web3 gaming business has come.

The winners had been revealed throughout the two-hour in-person occasion in Manila and throughout all main live-streaming platforms. Every recreation, content material creator, and ecosystem managed to prime their class to face out amongst their friends based mostly on the progress revamped the previous 12 months.

The 2024 Winners 

Right here is the total record of winners:

• Recreation of the Yr: Off the Grid
• Greatest Combating Recreation: Champions Ascension
• Greatest Artwork Course: Moonfrost
• Greatest Browser: Pirate Nation
• Greatest Cellular Recreation: Fableborne
• Greatest RPG: Huge Time
• Greatest Technique Recreation: Parallel
• Greatest Motion Recreation: Off the Grid
• Greatest Informal Recreation: Pixels
• Greatest Sports activities Recreation: Sparkball
• Greatest Journey Recreation: Ravenquest
• Greatest Card Recreation: Parallel
• Greatest Shooter Recreation: Off the Grid
• Greatest Content material Creator: YellowPanther
• Greatest On-Chain Recreation: Pirate Nation
• Greatest Ecosystem: Ronin
• Video games’ Selection: Wildcard
• Greatest Esports Recreation: Parallel
• Greatest Multiplayer Recreation: Off the Grid
• Individuals’s Selection: Pixels
• Most Anticipated Recreation: MapleStory Universe

Prizes and Companions 

Among the many updates for 2024 Gam3 Awards was the elevated $5 million prize pool, which consisted of grants, merchandise, providers, advertising and marketing, and blockchain help from companions resembling AWS, XAI, Thirdweb, Aethir, and Group Gaming amongst others to assist finalists and winners develop even additional. 

This represented a considerable enhance from earlier years and underscored our occasion’s dedication to supporting and fostering the following technology of Web3 video games. Along with YGG, Gam3 additionally partnered with Arbitrum, Magic Eden, Immutable, Avalanche, and Skale to make this 12 months’s occasion even greater and higher than earlier years. 

Jury and Voting

This 12 months’s jury featured over 70 distinguished conventional and blockchain gaming figures, with many returning jurors from earlier ceremonies. The varied panel included representatives from powerhouses resembling Amazon, Google, Samsung, Ubisoft, Animoca Manufacturers, Immutable, Arbitrum, Blockchain Recreation Alliance (BGA), Base, Ronin, and Avalanche, in addition to content material creators and main media retailers resembling GamesBeat/VentureBeat. Yep, I used to be a decide for the second 12 months in a row.

Very like earlier years, the voting course of noticed the jury’s votes signify 90% of the ultimate choice, with the group making up the remaining 10% for many classes besides Individuals’s Selection and Greatest Content material Creator, which had been each 100% group voting-based, and Video games’ Selection, which relies on shortlisted recreation studios voting for his or her favourite title recreation.

Conclusion

The organizers stated this 12 months’s GAM3 Awards was essentially the most important occasion in Web3 gaming but as a celebration of all the business, showcasing the most effective video games, studios, and innovators within the house. With over 300 in-person attendees, viewers obtained to witness gameplay premiers and unique premier trailers from the most effective video games within the house.  The organizers stated that’s all a testomony to the brilliant way forward for Web3 gaming because it heads into 2025 with the occasion anticipated to return subsequent November for its fourth consecutive version.

Gam3s.gg is a Web3 gaming tremendous app with over one million registered customers that curates and creates content material to highlight the highest video games and showcase evaluations, guides, information, quests, annual awards, and extra. It has been round as a Web3 recreation discovery platform and one-stop store for 3 years.

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

As a community of gaming guilds centered on web3 video games, YGG is dedicated to offering alternatives for its members to attain success in Web3 gaming by means of questing initiatives resembling Superquests and the Guild Development Program (GAP). These allow members to construct their onchain identification by means of its achievement-based popularity system.

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

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 priceless 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 embrace founders and C-level executives from enterprise funds, crypto exchanges, protocols, and web3 wallets, alongside gaming studios, esports groups, guilds, and the gaming group.