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Recognising and supporting excellence across the breadth of the UK gaming industry, the winners of the TIGA Awards 2021 have just been announced via a virtual awards ceremony.
Leading the winners was Supermassive Games with The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope which won Game of the Year and Best Social Game. Sony came away with Best Publisher, while the Diversity Award went to Payload Studios for it’s Tentacle Zone Incubator initiative.
In announcing the winners, TIGA CEO Dr Richard Wilson said, “Congratulations to all the fantastic finalists and wonderful winners of the TIGA UK Games Industry Awards 2021. The TIGA Awards are all about recognising excellence. TIGA looks forward to working with our friends, members and supporters to promote excellence in our sector in the months and years ahead.”
The full list of winners and shortlisted candidates can be found here. Congratulations to them all.
| BEST ARCADE GAME | Narita Boy (Team 17 / Studio Koba) |
| BEST RECRUITMENT AGENCY | Aardvark Swift |
| BEST QA/LOCALISATION PROVIDER | PTW |
| BEST CASUAL GAME | Love and Pies (Trailmix) |
| HERITAGE IN GAMES AWARD | Trains Sim World 2 (Dovetail Games) |
| BEST EDUCATIONAL / SERIOUS / SIMULATION GAME | BBC Bitesize History Detectives (BBC Bitesize/Mobile Pie) |
| BEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION | Panivox |
| BEST AUDIO DESIGN | NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (Square Enix) |
| BEST ROLE PLAYING GAME | Last Stop (Variable State) |
| BEST ACTION AND ADVENTURE GAME | Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Sony Interactive Entertainment / Insomniac Games) |
| DIVERSITY AWARD | Payload Studios: Tentacle Zone Incubator |
| CREATIVITY AWARD | South of the Circle (State of Play) |
| BEST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION | The University of Portsmouth |
| BEST SOCIAL GAME | The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope (Supermassive Games) |
| BEST AUDIO SERVICES SUPPLIER | Side |
| BEST STRATEGY GAME | Total War: WARHAMMER II (Creative Assembly) |
| BEST PUBLISHER | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| BEST TAX AND ACCOUNTANCY FIRM | MMP Tax |
| OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP | Jason Falcus, COO Kwalee |
| BEST VR/AR GAME | Sniper Elite VR (Rebellion) |
| BEST ART / ANIMATION / TRAILER SUPPLIER | Atomhawk |
| BEST PUZZLE GAME | Call of the Sea (Out of the Blue Games) |
| BEST EDUCATION INITIATIVE AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT | Ubisoft |
| BEST LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDER | Stevens & Bolton LLP |
| BEST VISUAL DESIGN | Returnal (Sony Interactive Entertainment) |
| BEST SERVICES PROVIDER | Liquid Crimson |
| BEST SMALL STUDIO | XR Games |
| BEST LARGE STUDIO | Kwalee |
| OUTSTANDING EMPLOYER AWARD 2021 | Dovetail Games |
| OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL AWARD | Jake Habgood, Director of Education partnership at Sumo Group |
| GAME OF THE YEAR | The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope (Supermassive Games) |
