The winners of the 5th Annual International Mobile Gaming Awards(IMGA) have been announced. Held during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the IMGA is an annual contest for the best mobile games in the world. As usual, the winners of the awards across eight categories were a blend of the unusual, the eccentric and, of course, the utterly innovative.

FastFoot-Challenge of Urban Team from Germany was named Best Real World Game, Mobigame from France received the Excellence in Gameplay Award with EDGE, Real Racer of Firemint from Australia won the Excellence in Connectivity Award, while Secret Exit from Finland walked away with the Excellence in 3D Award for their title Zen Bound. Tropical Towers of Real Arcade from Finland was awarded Best Casual Game.

The People’s Choice Award, chosen via on-line voting on www.imgawards.com went to Digital Legends from Spain with the title KROLL. Rounding off the awards, a panel of Mobile Operators,representing Orange, Vodafone and T-Mobile, selected EDGE of Mobigame from France who therefore received the Operators’ Choice Award.

The Jury decided that all this year’s winning Category entries were of such a high standard that they all merited a Grand Prix. In addition, the exceptional innovation displayed in Kodo Evolved deserved an Innovation Award. As a result, this year the Jury has decided that theGrand Prix will be divided equally between the five Category winners and the winner of the Innovation Award.

Yes, yes, we are already trying to get our mitts on those games. Watch this  site, please.

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