New Canadian Video Game Awards coming this spring
The 1st Annual Canadian Videogame and Digital Arts Awards is set to take place May 5th at the Vancouver Convention Centre and will in essense kick off GDC Canada. This is definitely a good thing, as with the ELANs moving from Canada to the US, there’s definitely room for an awards show that highlights Canadian talent, be it big names in the gaming industry such as Bioware or Ubisoft Montreal, or the wealth of talent behind the scenes of film and television. A number of sponsor such as Microsoft and EA have already signed on, and the show will be presented by Reboot Communications, Greedy Productions (of ‘Electric Playground’ fame) and Seven Group.
It’s especially well timed, as over the past few years Canada has seen further investment both at the national and provincial level. The combination of talent and investment has moved the country to become the 3rd largest games producer in the world. Whether it’s Ontario courting Ubisoft or the The GoC creating the Canada Interactive Fund, the country appears to be on a major push into the digital economy.
List of award categories and more when you
From the CVAwards (that’s their twitter handle) home page:
Co-locating with GDC-Canada this year is the 1st Annual Canadian Videogame and Digital Arts Awards. This event will honour and celebrate the best and brightest in Canadian games, computer animation and visual effects. It will be a great, fun, fast paced night featuring Canadian hosts and presenters, as well as internationally renowned musical talent VideoGames Live! Canadians are masters of their craft when it comes to making games, visual effects and computer animation. They work tirelessly to build terrific entertainment, which then becomes a world class export that the entire planet consumes and is thrilled by. It is time to let everyone know where this fine work comes from!
The awards are accepting nominations until March 17th, and you can submit yours now by hitting the home page and clicking the big blue button (via Facebook Connect). Finalists will be announced a week later, when public voting for Game Of The Year begins.
Video Game
• Best Visual Arts
• Best Writing
• Best Audio
• Best Game Design
• Best Technology
• Best Console
• Best Downloadable
• Best Handheld
• Game of the Year
VFX / Animation
• Best Animated Short
• Best Animated Feature Film
• Best Animated Television (Series or one-off)
• Best Visual Effects Movie
• Best Visual Effects Television
• Best Visual Effects or Animation for Home Video
• Best In-Game Cinematic
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