Wednesday 15 August 2012


European Games Award

European Games Award 2012

The 22 winners of the biggest public choice award for computer and video games are announced

Yesterday evening, the Pan-European gaming industry celebrated the European Games Award in Cologne, Germany. The biggest best games and biggest personalities of the past year were celebrated during a ceremony, as a prelude to the gamescom trade fair in Cologne.

Over 230.000 votes have been submitted and a new record has been broken in the biggest online voting for games in Europe.

Games, developers, publishers, magazines, and platforms from 15 European countries competed for this much sought-after prize. The jury has chosen the 100 best titles out of more than 400 computer- and videogames, which have been developed in the last year in Europe, but left the final choice of the favourites to the games fans. The voting was carried out in over 20 categories.

The biggest winners this year are is the Polish triple-A production “The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings“, as well as the Swedish first-person shooter “Battlefield 3“. Developer CD Projekt RED secured six awards with the second part of the “Witcher“, including “Best European Character Design” and “Best European Game Design”, also scooping the overall “Best European Game. „Battlefield 3” stood up to the competitors as the best European action, multiplayer and console game that was also accompanied by the “Best European Sound”. Wargaming.net from Belarus is the „Best European Publisher” of the last year and their announced MMO game “World of Warplanes“ has been chosen “Europe's Most Wanted Online Game“.

The “Personality Award“ was handed over to Markus Persson – the developer of “Minecraft“. His open world game won two categories: “Best European Indie Game“ and “Best European Community“. Furthermore, Goodgame Studios developed the “Best European Browser Game” with „Good Game Empire“.

The prize-winners of each category were announced and awarded during the ceremony on the sailing event location Pure-liner 1. The present winners received their European Games Award on-stage from Charles Cecil (Revolution Software), Karl Magnus (DICE), Victor Kislyi (Wargaming.net) and many more. Finally, like every year the organiser Aruba Events GmbH invited all guests to an exclusive after show party among the celebrated European Games Award winners.

Further information about the event and the winners, as well as images can be found atwww.european-games-award.com.

Full list of the European Games Award winners 2012
Best European Action Game: Battlefield 3
Best European Art Direction: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Best European Character Design: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Best European Browser Game: GoodGame Empire
Best European Multiplayer Game: Battlefield 3
Best European Sound: Battlefield 3
Best European Game: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Best European Publisher: Wargaming.net
Europe's Most Wanted Online Game: World of Warplanes
Best European Indie Game: Minecraft
Best European Adventure Game: Botanicula
Best European Community: Minecraft
Best European Console Game: Battlefield 3
Best European Gameworld: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Best European Game Design: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Best European Mobile Game: Burnout Crash!
Best European Racing Game: Driver: San Francisco
Best European Special Edition: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Best European Strategy Game: Anno 2070
Best European Studio: Blue Byte
Europe's Most Wanted Game: Assassin's Creed 3
Personality Award: Markus Persson

About the European Games Award
The European Games Award is Europe's largest consumer award regarding gaming and honors the best games, developers, publishers and platforms. Organizer Aruba Events has been organizing the annual German Developer Awards for the last seven years. The most important award for German developers, led to the conception of the European Games Award. More information on the European Games Award can be found on the Internet atwww.european-games-award.com.

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