Italian Video Game Awards
6th JULY 2023
The Italian Video Game Awards reward the best videogames published during the year and promote the cultural and artistic value of this medium.
This year’s is the eleventh edition of the awards, and it will be exclusively dedicated to Italian-made video games, a light on the best of the Italian development talent with the awards themselves decided by an international panel of respected luminaries from across the game industry. The Italian Video Game Awards 2023 ceremony will take place on 6th July at 19.00 BST/20.00 CEST, and will be streamed live on First Playable Official Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/firstplayable.
ITALIAN GAME
ITALIAN DEBUT GAME
INNOVATION
INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION
ITALIAN COMPANY
NOMINEES 2023
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 Individual Contribution
Antonio Cannata (Stormind Games)
Valerio Di Donato (34BigThings)
Cristina Nava (Ubisoft Milan)
Outstanding Italian Company
Nacon Studio Milan
Reply Game Studios
Ubisoft Milan
Jury 2023
Vikki Blake
Reporter, critic, columnist
Mike Channell
co-editor for Outside Xbox
Lucy James
Senior Video Producer at GameSpot and Creative Producer at Giant Bomb
Imogen Mellor
Games Journalist and Content Creator
Ross Thompson
Content Creator and Consultant & Advisor in Gaming, Esports and Influencer Activation
Alexis Trust
Comms Manager at Chucklefish
Jake Tucker
Editor-in-chief of TechRadar Gaming