AddictingGames, a popular Flash game portal, has announced plans to hold a large-scale awards show pertaining to casual games. The show will take place in 2009, with a series of voting rounds conducted on the site that will allow AddictingGames’ users to decide the final outcome (though judges will have some say).
The show will be open to any casual game on the web, but the results will likely be heavily skewed towards games on AddictingGames, since that’s where voting will actually take place. Few details have been released, but the Nickelodeon-owned site promises content spread on websites and television programs across “the entire Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group”.
While the execution is flawed (the voting will be totally biased), developers could use an incentive to create casual games that are more involved than the mind numbing junk games that litter countless sites and development platforms across the web. Alongside a compensation program that AddictingGames will be rolling out for its most popular developers, this could at least help gamers pick out the best of the crop.
Would be better if Kongregate hold it, they rock
Kongregate is amazing.
Addicting games is Viacom right??
F**k em.
Loren Feldman 1938 Media here. What the f*ck is with these gamers man! Developers . . . their happy. All that gamey stuff, all that Flashy stuff. Award show? That is a no-brainer.
Loren Feldman 1938 Media
AG might not be quite as progressive as Kongregate, but they do great things for indie flash developers. I know a lot of people who’s first “payday” for flash games comes from them.
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If addicting Games is part of MTV, isn’t this an extension of the MTV Video Music/Movie/… Awards? What is news about this???