Pégases 2024: categories and named games revealed

Since 2020, the Academy of Video Game Arts and Techniques organizes the annual ceremony of Pegasus, an event designed to reward the best French games released the previous year. A French-speaking version of Game Awards in short.

2024 will be the occasion of the fifth edition of the ceremony which will be held March 7 at 8 p.m. and which will be transmitted live. One month before the deadline, the list of categories and nominated games has just been revealed with a little novelty: a special international prize will be awarded to reward a “personality who left his mark on the global video game industry“.

Before revealing the list of participants to the Pegasus in each category, a small teaser of the ceremony was published:

Note: games in red are games present on Nintendo Switch, exclusively or not.

Visual excellence

• Dordogne – Focus Entertainment/UN I DON’T KNOW WHAT/UMANIMATION
• Assassin's Creed Mirage – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Bordeaux
• Songs of Sennaar – Focus Entertainment/Rundisc

Best technological innovation

• Headbangers: Rhythm Royale – Glee-cheese Studio
• Aliens: Dark Descent –Focus Entertainment/Tindalos Interactive
• Dragon Duelist –Sporty Peppers

Best student video game

• A day with Mocchi – Rubika
• INKESIS – Isart Digital
• SIKARIA: A SILENT HUNT – Isart Digital

Best sound world

• Assassin's Creed Mirage – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Bordeaux
• The Crew Motorfest – Ubisoft/Ivory Tower
• Ebbing – Don’t Nod Entertainment

Narrative excellence

• Unknown Soldiers: Brothers in Arms – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montpellier/ Old Skull Games
• The Wreck – The Pixel Hunt
• Assassin's Creed Mirage – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Bordeaux

Best mobile video game

• Unknown Soldiers: Brothers in Arms – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montpellier/ Old Skull Games
• The Wreck – The Pixel Hunt
• Mighty Quest Rogue Palace – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Mobile Paris Studio

Beyond video games

• Unknown Soldiers: Brothers in Arms – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montpellier/ Old Skull Games
• Songs of Sennaar – Focus Entertainment/Rundisc
• The Wreck – The Pixel Hunt

Best Independent Video Game

• Songs of Sennaar – Focus Entertainment/Rundisc
• Dordogne – Focus Entertainment/UN I DON’T KNOW WHAT/UMANIMATION
• Have a Nice Death –Magic Design Studios

Best Game Design

• Songs of Sennaar – Focus Entertainment/Rundisc
• Ebbing – Don’t Nod Entertainment
• The Crew Motorfest – Ubisoft/Ivory Tower

Best operating service

• The Crew Motorfest – Ubisoft/Ivory Tower
• Tales Up – Journey Studio
• Go Go Magnet – Oh Bibi

Best foreign mobile video game

• Little Nightmares – Playdigious/Alike Studio/Bandai Namco Europe
• Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition –Gameloft
• Warcraft Rumble – Activision Blizzard

Best foreign independent video game

• COCOON – Annapurna Interactive/Geometric Interactive
• Party Animals – Source Technology/Recreate Games
• Born of Bread – Plug in Digital/Dear Villagers/WildArts Studios Inc.

Best foreign video game

• Baldur's Gate 3 –Larian Studios
• COCOON – Annapurna Interactive/Geometric Interactive
• Hogwarts Legacy –Warners Bros. Discovery/Avalanche Software

Best first video game

• On Guard! –Fireplace Games
• Dordogne – Focus Entertainment/UN I DON’T KNOW WHAT/UMANIMATION
• Daisy Down the Bunburrows – Bunstack

Better Accessibility

• KarmaZoo – Pastagames
• Firebird – Ludogram
• Go Go Magnet – Oh Bibi

And that concludes this long list of nominees. What are your predictions as to the winners of this fifth edition of the Pegasus ? See you on March 7 to find out!