The outcomes are in and the Finnish Sport Awards 2023 simply wrapped.
Regardless of cell’s recognition and profitability, its key power is accessibility, and as such the platform is usually neglected at gaming awards worldwide… However how did cell do at tonight’s Finnish Sport Awards? In spite of everything, Finland is the religious house of cell gaming so certainly there’s loads of love coming cell’s method?
The primary of the so-called “major awards” was the all-important Small Display Sport of the Yr award, offered by Suomen Pelikmehittajat board vice chair Joni Lappalainen and chair of the board Jussi Loukianen.
“Small display screen 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 right now’s nominees additionally share the identical DNA and the identical footprints.”
The six nominees have been:
Phrase Buddies
Badland Get together
Offroad Unchained
Nerf: Superblast
Indignant Birds Journey
Pako Freeway…
And…
Tree Males Video games emerged victorious with Pako Freeway, which mixes components 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 large prizes. The Finnish video games business, nonetheless, has a larger reverence for cell gaming, as evidenced by Sport Music Collective’s efficiency of the Indignant Birds Theme Tune. As such, two of the six nominees for Small Display Sport of the Yr – Indignant Birds Journey and Pako Freeway – have been in competition for the Finnish Sport 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 house 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 exhibits 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.
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