On the evening of August 20th, PocketGamer.biz held a star-studded award ceremony event - Mobile Game Awards in Cologne, Germany, and invited all the luminarist across the mobile industry, aimed to awarding all the creators, makers, movers and shakers that push mobile industry forward. Among them, the biggest award, Game Of The Year, attracted everyone’s attention, and everyone wanted to know which game could win this honor.
With the event comes to a conclusion, the full list of the winners has been disclosed continually. Among them, let us congratulate Monopoly GO for defeating strong games such as Wuthering Waves and Honkai Star Rail and winning the awards of Game Of The Year.
This award recognises the most fabulous mobile gaming experience released over the past 18 months, and mainly focuses on the content of creativity, play mechanics, technological, artistic and aural achievements. The elements of innovation, audience engagement, and both critical and commercial success are also the significant factors to be considered.
Many players who are not familiar with Monopoly GO may be surprised by this result. After all, this game is simple to play and is not suitable for all players. In addition, the games competing with it for this award are all those prestigious games, so you may find a lot of controversial content in social media.
But Monopoly Go is definitely a gigantic game with enormous potential. By virtue of simplistic gameplay and worldwide popularity, Monopoly Go harvests an overwhelming profit and the space to earn more.
The Achievements Of Monopoly GO
According to the award speech, we can see that Monopoly GO has indeed achieved very impressive results. As a new game launched by Savvy Games after the acquisition of Scopely, Monopoly GO was released in April last year and quickly became the largest casual game in the past five years.
After reaching an agreement with Stumble Guys, Monopoly GO has created the theme of crossover promotion, leading the trend of 2023. Moreover, it has notched up its first $1 billion in revenue in just seven months after launching.
On the first anniversary of the game’s release, Monopoly GO directly created an incredible $3 billion in revenue. Among them, the selling of Monopoly Go Cards serves as an important source of income. More importantly, it owns plenty of chances to make a fortune in later days.
Other Games That Have Been Awarded
In this awards ceremony, there are many other excellent games that have won different awards. For example, Wuthering Waves, mentioned above, won the award of Best Audio/Visual Accomplishment. This game is certainly finding its global stride right now, owning the revenue of more than $100 million in its first two months, and is prepared to dominate globally after achieving a stellar performance in the far east.
There is also Zynga’s Star Wars Hunters, which is launched in June this year and has embraced enormous achievements in an instance. But it is worth mentioning that it took an unbelievable six years to get access to the market.
Now let’s mainly share several highly anticipated awards and their winners:
- Best Audio/Visual Accomplishment–Wuthering Waves
- Best Storytelling–Honkai Star Rail
- Best Developer–Hoyoverse
- Best PR/Marketing Team–Wooga
- Best Publisher–Scopely
The above is about Monopoly GO winning the awards for Game Of The Year. Let us congratulate it again. Thanks for reading.
