The Gamescom Latam Huge Competition 2025 awards kicked off right now in Sao Paulo, Brazil, beginning with a lifetime achievement award for Shu Yoshida, who championed indies at Sony’s PlayStation division throughout his a long time of labor on the firm.
Rodrigo Terra, CEO of Abram Video games, the Brazilian sport affiliation, offered the award to Yoshida, who will do a fireplace chat with me at Gamescom Latam on Thursday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Yoshida left late final yr after 31 years at Sony, the place he held jobs reminiscent of head of Sony Interactive Leisure Studios at Sony PlayStation.
The perfect sport award went to 9 Sols by Crimson Candle Video games in Taiwan.
The perfect pitch for regional sport growth went to Rogue Snail for its sport HellClock.
The perfect cell sport award went to Levil Satan by Unept.
Finest sound went to The Holy Gosh Darn, from Completely Paranormal As/Yogust
The winner for finest artwork was Naiad, growth Elwin at HiWarp.
The winner for innovation was Sol Cesto, Geraud Zucchini and Chariospirale of Goblinz Publishing in France.
The winner for finest multiplayer was Bang Bang Garrage from Monkey Bread/Spiral Up Video games in China. It was made by a two-person staff.
Finest narrative went to Neva by Nomada Studio, revealed by Devolver Digital.
Finest XR/VR went to Sugar Mess — Let’s Play Jolly Battle by JollyCo within the U.S.
The winner for finest gameplay went to Animal Properly, by Shared Reminiscence and revealed by Bigmode within the U.S. It was made by solo sport dev Billy Basso.
Finest sport for Latin America went to Grizzly Man, created by LCB Sport Studio in Argentina.
Finest sport for Brazil went to Mullet MadJack by Hammer 95 Studios and revealed by Epopeia Video games. The studio has been making video games for greater than 10 years. The sport has been wishlisted 500,000 instances and it has bought greater than 200,000 models thus far.
“Brazil is making glorious video games,” stated the winner.
