The award show of the European Games Award 2011 is getting closer, as it already starts on August 13th 2011. On that date winners in over 20 categories will be awarded on the event-ship „Pure Liner 1“. Prior to this, the winners have been elected in Europe’s greatest public voting with over half a million votes cast.

But not only the active participation of enthusiastic gamers across Europe gives the award show that special European touch. Award presentations will be made in each price category by well-known persons of the gaming-industry.

From Sweden we have DICE’s Kenny Magnusson and Magnus Sjöberg coming to Cologne, presenting the price for the „Best European Action Game”. Also coming from the north, but from the stronghold of the gaming industry, Great Britain we will have Ian Pickles and Kelvin Aston. Both are senior producers at Team17, well known for the Alien Breed- and the Worms-series. Pickles and Aston present the price for the “Best European Studio”

Mario Bauman, general manager GAS from the mainsponsor of the European Games Award 2011, wargaming.net, comes from the german capital Berlin and welcomes the winner of the categorie„Most Wanted Game“ on the stage.

Adam Badowski and John Mamais from the polish developer CD Projekt RED – as managing director and head of production both important for the success of The Witcher-series – hand over the trophy for the „Best European Browser Game“ to the lucky winner.


Chris Schmitz, from the Düsseldorfer studio BlueByte and currently working on Anno 2070, will present the winner in the category „Best European Publisher“.

Sven Liebich from Hamburgs company Bigpoint and as head of art responsible for the graphical design of the games, hands over the award for the “Best European Art Direction”. Jasmin Kassner-Orthbandt is the CEO of pixeltamer.net and well known for her social gaming project ChawaChawa, wherewith gamers can playfully
support social relief projects. She will award the winner of the category „Best European Online Game“.

Best-known should also be the following names: Avni, Cevat and Faruk Yerli. They are the leading heads of the development studio Crytek and will also join the award show. Avni Yerli will furthermore held the honorific speech for the „Best European Indie Game“.

Last, but not least a true veteran will hand over the much sought-after European Games Award 2011 for the “Best European Game”. The person we are talking about is Charles Cecil, co-founder of Revolution Games and creator of games like Beneath A Steel Sky and the Broken Sword-series.

Some of the mentioned persons are not only for their laudations on board of the „Pure Liner 1“, but are also on the list of the potential award winners in various categories of the European Games Award 2011.

The EGA 2011 has startet and everyone is invited to vote for his favorite game in over 20 categories. In the past year over 400 games were released in europe and we selected more than 100 of the best games for you to be europes finest. For the first time you will be able to not just vote for retail and online games but for Add-Ons and DLCs also! Take your vote and be part of the greatest public vote in gaming history: European Game Awards 2011.

Every registered voter, automatically takes part in our lottery. The prize will beNintendo's next generation Console the Wii U!

Scout the categories!

Vote for your favorites!

The European Games Award is the first award exclusively for European video and computer game developers, which lets professionals and gamers from all over Europe participate in the voting for the best games.

The award ceremony – after having been held in Cologne (Germany) for two years – will then take place in a different European capital each year. The première of the European Games Award on August 14th 2010 took place in an extraordinary location: on the Pure Liner, an event ship, which left Niehler Harbor in Cologne and sailed along the Rhine during the award ceremony.

The European Games Award demonstrates how many important games are developed in Europe, and honors the work of the developers, publishers and all those involved in the production and marketing of games.

Here are some impressions of last years European Games Award.

We thank all guests for the great show in Cologne!

These are the winners of the first European Games Award in the 23 categories:

The European Games Award made an European-wide public voting possible for the first time. More than 12,000 Users registered at the EGA website and not only voted for the best action, sports, adventure game etc., they also also took part in the EGA-lottery. The first prize was an PS3, exclusively branded in the European Games Award Design.

With the Gamesload European Newcomer Award your team has the chance to win 2.500 € as prize money as well as a European-wide distribution deal with Gamesload if you achieve the first place.
Here are the guidelines for a successful submission to the award:

• Your game has been developed by university students, was a student’s project or was created and developed by a team of independent developers.
• Your team members are older than 16 years and have not yet worked in a professional game developer studio or as freelancer in the games industry.
• Your project is not a commissioned work for a professional developer and has not yet been released in any distributional channels.
• Your project is not encumbered with third persons’ rights, you own all rights to your project.
• Your project must at least exist in a playable version (beta version, prototype) as a whole or in parts (levels), which gives an idea of the game’s concept. You may also include trailers, videos or screenshots to complete the game’s impression
• The entry deadline for a successful submission is July 26th 2010.
• Awardees can be students, young professional developers, branch newcomers, natural persons or legal entities, it they are authorized to accept the award for its proper use.
  
• We reserve the right to cancel your submission to the award without further explanation even if all guidelines have been kept.
  
• Your project must have been developed for the PC.

If you want to submit a game or have any questions concerning the Gamesload European Newcomer Award you can contact us via email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone +49 208 – 69 82 608

What could be your reward? You can win a European-wide distribution deal for your project by Gamesload and 2.500€ prize money in cash!

The European Games Award is the first award exclusively for European video and computer game developers, which lets professionals and gamers from all over Europe participate in the voting for the best games.

The award ceremony – after having been held in Cologne (Germany) for two years – will then take place in a different European capital each year. The  European Games Award 2011 will be in an extraordinary location: on the Pure Liner, an event ship, which will leave Niehler Harbor in Cologne and will sail along the Rhine during the award ceremony.

The European Games Award wants to demonstrate how many important games have been developed in Europe, and it wants to honor the work of the developers, publishers and all those involved in the production and marketing of games.