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IMGA 2008 Awards Announced

Mobile gaming is one of the most underrated dimensions in the world of video games. But now they are gaining a lot of popularity. The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) can be called as the Oscars of the mobile games world. Now the winners of the IMGA 2008 event have been announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Treasure Arm IMGA Award Winner

Here is a list of the winners at the IMGA 2008 Awards:

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Best Casual Game Award: Treasure Arm (Tequila Mobile)

Best Licensed IP-Based Game Award: Furby Island (LemonQuest)

Excellence in 3D: ONE (Digital Legends)

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Excellence in Gameplay: Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol (Jadestone)

Grand Prix: Metal Gear Solid Mobile (Ideaworks3D)

Operators Choice Award: Metal Gear Solid Mobile (Ideaworks3D)

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People’s Choice Award: WRC (Firemint)

Maarten Noyons is the chief executive officer and founder of the IMGA. He commented, “The fourth IMGA was a big step forward for us. We have had the biggest, most widespread and richest participation since 2004, with two new awards to encourage a new level of entry. Moreover, a partnership with the GSM Association gives us a front row seat at the Mobile World Congress. Equally, the partnership with Buongiorno fuelled the ‘People’s Choice Award’ efficiently through Wap voting and game delivery to journalists worldwide.”

Dr. Mark Ollila is the director of technology and strategy and head of Games Publishing at Nokia. He says, “This year’s standard of entries has demonstrated just how far mobile games have developed over the past few years. We are naturally thrilled to have won both the ‘Excellence in Gameplay’ award for ‘Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol’ and the ‘Excellence in 3D’ award for ‘ONE’. N-Gage is committed to providing its customers with the best possible mobile games so it’s great to be recognized so early on for this. We are looking forward to delivering even enhanced and more exciting games over the next year.”

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The juries were specialists from Japan, US and Europe. They chose the winners from twenty five nominees from countries like US, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, India, UK, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Australia. However this year, the IMGA Jury has not awarded anyone the Excellence in Connectivity award.

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