The Mobile Games Awards are going down only a week from right now in Central London, however there’s nonetheless time to affix us!
There’s restricted time left to safe your ticket to affix us at this prestigious ceremony. Safe your seat at this night time of celebration and prepare to attach with the very best within the video games {industry} as we congregate to have a good time the {industry}’s successes over the previous yr! E book your ticket when you nonetheless can, availability is extremely restricted so don’t depart it till the final minute to register!
That is an occasion you completely gained’t wish to miss! This yr’s Pocket Gamer MGAs are a really particular version of those prestigious awards. For the primary time, the Mobile Games Awards Winners are determined by the {industry}. That’s proper, it’s all as much as professionals working within the cellular video games {industry} now and votes are being counted as we converse! Now we have 22 classes every with a choice of worthy finalists who’ve been voted for by {industry} professionals over the previous few weeks, and there’s been an open vote for individuals outdoors the {industry} to voice their ideas with The Pocket Gamer Individuals’s Alternative Award. We’re thrilled to have seen an unprecedented response from the general public for The Pocket Gamer Individuals’s Alternative Award, and we completely can’t wait to see who the general public crowns the winner amongst the improbable finalists which are up for this award.
Talking of particular awards, right now we’re supplying you with a little bit of perception into the MGAs’ particular lifetime achievement award. One winner is topped because the MGA Mobile Legend every year, and right now, we’re diving into what this very particular award means and the winners from years previous in anticipation of who will safe the title this yr. Carry on studying to be taught extra concerning the unbelievable {industry} veterans which have earned this title.
What’s the Mobile Legend award?
This particular lifetime achievement award recognised an individual from wherever on the earth who has achieved a substantial quantity of success of their profession and has acted as a pioneer within the cellular video games area.
The Mobile Legend is a particular award to recognise an excellent contribution to the cellular video games {industry} chosen instantly by the organisation committee of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards.
Since our inaugural Mobile Games Awards, we’ve got had 5 winners declare the title of Mobile Legends, each one in all them a famend video games {industry} pioneer inside their very own proper. These people’ careers and notable achievements excel far past what we are able to cowl on this article, however we’ve offered a quick snippet of their spectacular work that led them to their award. We can not wait to see what sport {industry} dynamo wins this prestigious award this yr!
2018 – Kristian Segerstrale (CEO of Tremendous Evil Mega Corp)
Kristian Segerstrale was the primary ever recipient of this prestigious award. A real {industry} pioneer, he’s been concerned in lots of, many profitable video games for over a decade and proved himself time and again as a fantastic predictor and investor within the subsequent large initiatives for the video games {industry}. His work started again in 2011 by means of co-founding java sport developer Macrospace, and he launched over 20 video games below that firm.
He co-founded Playfish in 2007 to take advantage of the huge modifications introduced on by free-to-play and social networks and oversaw the likes of The Sims Social, Restaurant Metropolis and Pet Society earlier than promoting the studio to EA for $400 million in 2009. He presently works as CEO of esports specialist Tremendous Evil Megacorp.
2019 – Tommy Palm (Founder and CEO of Decision Games)
Tommy Palm gained this prestigious accolade again in 2019, after twenty years of being closely concerned within the cellular video games area. He labored as a vice chairman of cellular from 1999 to 2009 and based Fabrication Games in 2009. They have been ultimately purchased by King in 2012 in a deal value thousands and thousands.
Palm is credited with taking part in a key position in King’s cellular push as they launched Sweet Crush Saga again in 2012, one of the crucial in style cellular video games on the earth to today, on iOS and Android and was dubbed the ‘Games Guru’ throughout his time at King. He based Decision Games again in 2015 and has been serving as CEO ever since on the augmented reality-focused firm, overseeing initiatives together with Bait! and Offended Birds: First Individual Slingshot. He’s additionally devoted to giving again to the {industry} by means of his non-profit Stugan, an all bills paid video games accelerator for builders to make progress on their video games and obtain mentorship from {industry} consultants.
2020 – Bernard Kim (President of Publishing, Zynga)
Bernard Kim of Zynga was introduced with this award in 2020, a celebration of one of many very first pioneers of the cellular area. He started his profession in Disney Mobile and ultimately moved to EA Mobile with the aim of bringing video games to gadgets that weren’t, on the time, “meant for gaming” in his personal phrases. He labored at EA for a decade and rose to the place of Senior Vice President, serving to the corporate from early successes on JAVA downloads by means of the transition to smartphones into the huge billion-dollar empire the enterprise is right now. He labored on gaming franchises together with Tentris, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Vegetation vs. Zombies, Star Wars, Minions and plenty of, many extra.
Again in 2016, he joined Zynga as president and helped pave the best way for the corporate’s development into one of many quickest rising public gaming firms on the earth. Their market cap had virtually tripled in 2020 from the time he joined below his management, and he’s an exemplary {industry} chief who maintains his ardour for gaming on the forefront of his management. In his personal phrases, “My one superpower is I have the ability to play three hours of video games every single day, and I’ve done that for 30-plus years.”
2021 – Chris DeWolfe (Co-founder of Plai Labs)
Co-founder and former CEO of Jam Metropolis Chris DeWolfe joined the unique membership of Mobile Legends again in 2021. His story begins together with his work in MySpace throughout the rise of the web, with DeWolfe serving to set up MySpace as one of many first and largest social media platforms of our time. Following its sale to Information Corp in 2005, he based Jam Metropolis in 2010 with some colleagues.
As we now know, Jam Metropolis exploded into one of many largest names within the {industry} to today, main 9 studios which have introduced us huge titles akin to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Thriller, Cookie Jam, Panda Pop, Disney Emoji Blitz and Household Man The Quest for Stuff, which have achieved effectively over 1.3 billion downloads. DeWolfe’s affect reaches far past the video games {industry}, being named one in all Time 100’s most influential individuals on the earth and handpicked by legend Barbara Walters as one of many 10 most fascinating individuals.
2022 – Daniel Grey (Chief Inventive Officer, ustwo video games)
Our most up-to-date MGA Mobile Legend is none apart from ustwo video games’ Chief Inventive Officer Daniel Grey. He has been with the awards-winning studio since 2013, however has spent over fifteen years in his profession creating, in his personal phrases, “meaningful games at scale” and forming ustwo video games’ exceptional, industry-leading inventive imaginative and prescient.
His profession started at Lionhead Studios’ QA work expertise programme proper after graduating college and moved into work between Lionhead, Kuju Studio and Hey Games over the subsequent few years. He made the swap over the cellular video games at a time the place cellular gaming was nonetheless extremely underestimated, being drawn in by ustwo video games’ uncommon background as a design company seeking to department out into the cellular gaming sphere. Inside a couple of months of Grey becoming a member of the corporate in 2013, ustwo achieved their best hit, Monument Valley, and Grey received to be proper there to see the prototyping course of happen. He ultimately moved right into a Head of Studio place and shifted into director duties by 2020. After a short time working the corporate, Grey shifted gears to deal with what he most prioritised spending his time on, and now works at main the inventive imaginative and prescient for the corporate as Chief Inventive Officer. You possibly can learn our interview from final yr with the legend himself for extra perception right here.
Celebrating the way forward for the video games {industry} with the Rising Star award!
Whereas the Mobile Legend award celebrates essentially the most extremely achieved trailblazers who’ve already left a long-lasting mark within the video games {industry}, we equally wish to uplift the rising stars who’ve already begun to depart a optimistic affect on the video games {industry}. Our Rising Star award was a brand new addition to the awards again in 2020 and recognises an individual from any nook of the globe who has demonstrated a substantial quantity of success, affect, and affect regardless of their comparatively latest arrival throughout the cellular video games {industry}.
Earlier winners have included Simay Dinç, the Co-Founding father of Recontact Games, Jana and Sham Al Bdour of Sakura Games and most not too long ago, Niantic’s Progress Product Supervisor Karla Reyes. We can not wait to see what spectacular {industry} newcomer takes this award this yr!
Be among the many largest names within the video games {industry} subsequent week on the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards!
There is no such thing as a place to be just like the Mobile Games Awards on the subject of connecting with the very best of the current and the way forward for the video games {industry}. Large names from all corners of the video games {industry} can be becoming a member of us in Central London subsequent week for this large night time for the video games {industry}, and also you gained’t wish to miss this phenomenal alternative to mingle with high authorities and main manufacturers within the {industry}. The present’s arising in only a week, so that is your final likelihood to safe your ticket and be part of us and the {industry}’s best at this prestigious night! There’s a really restricted variety of tickets left, so head over to our official web site and safe your spot on the present when you nonetheless can.
