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Finalists of inaugural Pocket Gamer Awards revealed, with winners to be announced during GDC.
For Immediate Release
London, UK – 8th March 2010 – Pocket Gamer is proud to announce the finalists of its inaugural PG Awards, which are bound to be regarded as the Oscars of the portable gaming world.
Selected by the entire Pocket Gamer team and split across iPhone, mobile and handheld formats, the finalists include any title either reviewed or released between 1st January to 31st December 2009 and have been divided into categories spanning a range of genres available for each format, as well as the obligatory Game of the Year category for each format.
The Pocket Gamer Awards 2010 Finalists can be viewed here:
<http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Various/Pocket+Gamer+Awards/feature.asp?c=17875>
The winners are to be announced during this year’s GDC in San Francisco with a special celebratory event co-sponsored by Scoreloop and Mplayit due to take place at the Harlot bar (46 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA94105) on Wednesday 10th March from 5.30-8.30pm.
‘’Having looked at hundreds of titles, we're delighted to have whittled the list down to the very best of 2009,” said PG editor Rob Hearn, “a year that saw iPhone grab most of the headlines, while Java hung in with some of the best mobile games the platform as seen so far. Handheld releases were also strong, with consistent publisher support for DS and renewed focus on PSP resulting in a number of unmissable titles.”
Accompanying the editorial finalists are the Pocket Gamer Readers’ Choice Awards 2010, which asks the PG audience to vote for their favourite game of the year. The formats have again been split between iPhone, mobile and handheld, with each showcasing the finest 20 titles released between 1st January to 31st December 2009, as chosen by the PG editorial team.
Voting will remain open until the end of March, at which point the counting will begin and the winners announced at the start of April.
The Pocket Gamer Readers’ Choice Awards 2010 can be viewed here:
<http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/awards.asp>
CONTACT
For more information, contact Joao Diniz Sanches ( joao@pocketgamer.co.uk)
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