'Big Time' and other Web3 games take home the gold at the inaugural GAM3 awards

The Web3 gaming awards event, the GAM3 Awards, hosted by Polkastarter Gaming, has announced 16 winners astatine a unrecorded lawsuit connected December 15. 

According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, prize winners volition stock implicit $1M worthy of prizes sponsored by companies specified arsenic Immutable X, Blockchain Game Alliance, Machinations, Ultra, Naavik, Galxe, Hacken, Venly, HackenProof, Shorooq, Elixir, Arcade, and MetaCon.

— GAM3 AWARDS | 15th Dec (@PolkastarterGG) December 15, 2022

Games were judged based connected a scope of criteria; specified arsenic halfway loop, graphics, accessibility, replayability factor, amusive elements, and wide playing experience. Although the absorption was connected playability, eligibility for awards largely depended connected whether the nominated games utilized blockchain technology, successful immoderate form. 

An planetary assemblage made up of gaming, media and web3 outlets was liable for selecting the nominees. 

Award winners included; ‘Big Time’ which won some Game of the Year and Best Adventure Game. ‘Shrapnel’, which was awarded the Most Anticipated Game, ‘Star Atlas’ which won for the Best Graphics category, and ‘Thetan Arena’ which was awarded the Best Mobile Game. The winners for different categories included; Blankos Block Party, Illuvium, Superior, MetalCore, Gods Unchained, EV.io, Brycent, League of Kingdoms and The Harvest.

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Despite the abrupt implosion of FTX and its cascading effects connected the full web3 ecosystem, the blockchain gaming niche inactive appears to beryllium thriving.

According to analytics work DappRadar,  “In October and November, gaming enactment accounted for astir fractional of each blockchain activity” tracked crossed 50 networks, "with 800,875 regular Unique Active Wallets (UAW) interacting with games’ astute contracts successful November.”

The study besides revealed that blockchain games raised implicit $320 cardinal successful November, indicating excitement and imaginable maturation of the web3 gaming industry.