The GAM3 Awards, identified for its recognition of excellence in web3 gaming, is getting into its second yr. Set for Dec. 14, the ceremony will have fun the business’s best throughout an array of classes.

The awards ceremony is organized by GAM3S.GG, a platform that has styled itself as “the house of web3 gaming”, and Magic Eden, a community-driven NFT market, goals to showcase the continuing developments within the sector.

Contenders for this yr’s high awards embrace new web3 titles identified for his or her revolutionary gameplay and immersive experiences, providing stiff competitors to earlier winners. These embrace Huge Time, the Recreation of the 12 months 2022 winner, which just lately launched its preseason and recreation economic system, and Shrapnel, final yr’s Most Anticipated Recreation, now gearing up for its eagerly-awaited public playtest.

Final yr’s GAM3 Awards noticed over 100 web3 video games nominated throughout 16 classes, every designed to honor the most effective in web3 gaming as chosen by an knowledgeable panel and the gaming neighborhood. This yr, the occasion returns with the identical classes, introducing three new ones: Greatest Preventing Recreation, Greatest Sports activities Recreation, and Greatest On-Chain Recreation.

The video games will probably be assessed primarily based on a number of aspects, together with core loop, accessibility, replayability issue, enjoyable components, graphics, and the general gameplay expertise. Solely video games with a dwell, playable model assembly these standards will probably be eligible for nomination, barring the Most Anticipated Recreation class and the Individuals’s Alternative Award.

An knowledgeable panel, together with thought leaders and business veterans, will serve on the jury by way of a various and clear voting course of. This yr’s jury consists of new representatives from web3 gaming VCs, ecosystems, infrastructure companions, content material creators, and conventional gaming leaders. They’ll be a part of tech giants like Amazon and Google.

The jury’s choice will account for 90% of the ultimate end result, with neighborhood votes contributing the remaining 10%. Nonetheless, classes just like the Individuals’s Alternative Award and Greatest Content material Creator will rely fully on neighborhood voting, whereas the Video games’ Alternative Award will see recreation studios voting for his or her favourite recreation of the yr.

Nominations commenced on October twenty sixth through the GAM3S.GG platform and can proceed till the shortlist is introduced forward of the ultimate voting. Final yr, the awards gathered over 250,000 votes and reached an viewers of greater than 30,000 viewers through dwell streams, making it an occasion to be careful for this yr.

Winners will probably be awarded prizes totaling over $2 million, with sponsorship from main tech gamers Amazon and Google, alongside Blockchain Recreation Alliance and Magic Eden.

Disclosure: CryptoSlate’s Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright will function a choose for the second annual GAM3 Awards.