Five Days Left To Be In With A Chance To Win A Share Of $40,000 In The IMGA 2006 Awards

Marseille, 20th September 2006 - The IMGA, the international awards for mobile game developers, is calling on budding developers to get their original and innovative concepts in before 25th September in order to win a share of the $40,000 cash prize. The award categories include the Best Interactive Experience Award, the Best Use of Connectivity, the Excellence in 3D Award, the Most Innovative Game Award and the Best Use of Flash Award, with the overall winner of the IMGA Grand Prix winning $15,000 as well as the opportunity to distribute their game to the public.

While the IMGA is aimed at gaming studios, individual developers, students and researchers, there is an added incentive for students to enter this year. Alongside the Awards, there will be a parallel set of student awards, with categories reflecting the main awards. The overall Student Award prize consists of a trip to Barcelona plus attendance at the IMGA ceremony on 14th February 2007.

Entries can be made online via www.imgawards.com by providing a detailed overview of the project with visuals. Japanese and Korean developers can now enter the Awards via their own language section on the site.

"Entering is easy with the on-line judging form available at www.imgawards.com and it took me less then 30 minutes to enter my new game concept. My entry reflects my vision on the future of mobile games, so I hope the jury will appreciate that by nominating my game, "says Toni Doublet of Mobile Gaming company EXKEE and winner of the 2004 award.

Once the submissions are in, the international jury will carefully select the most appealing, original and creative ideas that are also technically feasible on 3rd October at the Belle de Mai Media Park in Marseille. With the help of the sponsors, the nominated entrants will work up a playable version before 26th January 2007, with the winners announced at a lavish ceremony at 3GSM in Barcelona in February next year.

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About IMGA

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) is a yearly contest for the most innovative and creative mobile games in the world. The objective is to create a new and exciting set of awards to recognise the world's most talented mobile game developers, whether they are from professional studios, universities or even back bedrooms! Recent research published by media research group, Screen Digest, suggests that by 2010, there will be a global installed base of more than 2 billion games-enabled mobile handsets and the worldwide games download market will be worth US$6.4b.

www.imgawards.com

IMGA Sponsors

Since 2004 the competition has been supported by Nokia, NVIDIA, Orange and Belle de Mai Media Park Marseille. This year sees Nokia, NVIDIA and Orange remain as main sponsors and Belle de Mai as co-sponsor, with Adobe, Japan's MOVIDA Group and Texas Instruments joining as main sponsors, with AUCHAN TELECOM and the Khronos Group joining as co-sponsors. In addition IMGA has agreed more than 60 partnership agreements with publishers, studios and other companies in the wireless business.