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Italy Video Game Awards 2023 announce the finalists!

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06/23/2023 - The Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association (IIDEA), Italy's video game industry association, is pleased to announce the finalists for this year's prestigious Italian Video Game Awards 2023. The awards ceremony will be hosted by Irish game presenter, critic and streamer Aoife Wilson on July 6, 2023 at the Nana Bianca Innovation Center in Florence.

The event will be held as part of the First Playable conference, the annual international B2B gaming event in Italy. Thalita Malagò, Director General at IIDEA, said, "It is a great honor for us to host the Italian Video Game Awards every year and to help put the spotlight on the excellence of our industry. The entries are always very talented, and this year was no exception. Our industry continues to grow and thrive year after year, and we're excited to see it continue to do so."

Here are the selected finalists for the 2023 Italian Video Game Awards:

Best Italian Game

  • Batora: Lost Haven (Stormind Games)
  • Freud's Bones - The Game (Axel Fox | Fortuna Imperatore)
  • Hell is Others (Strelka Games & Yonder)
  • Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan)
  • MotoGP™22 (Milestone)
  • Ravenous Devils (Bad Vices Games)
  • Redout 2 (34BigThings)
  • Saturnalia (Santa Ragione)
  • Soulstice (Reply Game Studios)
  • tERRORbane (BitNine Studio)
  • The Rude Awakening (One O One Games)
  • Vajont (Artheria)

Best Italian Debut Game

  • Freud's Bones - The Game (Axel Fox | Fortuna Imperatore)
  • IMAGO: Beyond the Nightmares (BR-Digital)
  • tERRORbane (BitNine Studio)
  • Vajont (Artheria)
  • Venice 2089 (Safe Place Studio)

Best Innovation

  • Hell is Others (Strelka Games & Yonder)
  • Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan)
  • Saturnalia (Santa Ragione)
  • tERRORbane (BitNine Studio)
  • Vajont (Artheria)

Outstanding Italian Company

  • Nacon Studio Milan
  • Reply Game Studios
  • Ubisoft Milan

Outstanding Individual Contribution

  • Antonio Cannata (Stormind Games)
  • Valerio Di Donato (34BigThings)
  • Cristina Nava (Ubisoft Milan)

This year's jury consists of: Vikki Blake, reporter, critic, columnist and consultant; Mike Channell, associate editor of Outside Xbox; Lucy James, senior video producer at GameSpot and creative producer at Giant Bomb; Imogen Mellor, games journalist and content creator; Alexis Trust, comms manager at Chucklefish; Jake Tucker, editor-in-chief of TechRadar Gaming; and Ross Thompson, content creator and consultant & advisor in gaming, esports and influencer activation.

For all the finalists for this year's awards and information about the judging panel, visit firstplayable.it/italian-video-game-awards/.

  • Source: Press release

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