The Festival des jeux de Cannes (Cannes Games Festival) is one of the world’s foremost gaming events. Over two days, over 170,000 people visit the Palais des festivals to catch the newest games on the market. It also holds a chess marathon.
This being Cannes, there obviously has to be an award. In this case, a panel has chosen the nominees in the race for the As d’Or award.
Nominees for 2014
The panel has chosen a total of 14 games for the 2014 edition:
– AUGUSTUS (Hurrican Edition)
– BRUXELLES 1893 (Pearl Games)
– CONCEPT (Repos Production)
– CRAZY TIME (In Ludo Veritas)
– KROSMASTER ARENA (Ankama)
– KORYO (Moonster Games)
– LES BÂTISSEURS (Bombyx)
– LES TROIS PETITS COCHONS (Purple Brain Créations)
– LEWIS & CLARK (Ludonaute)
– LOVE LETTER (Filosofia)
– MASCARADE (Repos Production)
– MICE & MYSTICS (Filosofia)
– PANIC CAFARD (Ravensburger)
– RIFF RAFF (Zoch)
The 2014 event will be held February 28 – March 4, 2014. For more information about the Cannes Games festival, visit Festival des jeux 2014.
The winners of the As d’Or award is “Concept” by Alain Rivollet & Gaëtan Beaujannot. Find more details (in French) at http://newsletter.palaisdesfestivals.com/IMG/html/jeux-news10-2014.html