[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
PRESS RELEASE: Voting opens on the 12th December on this
year’s Family Game of the Year. Unlike other awards, the FGTV
sponsored awards focus on different family age groups: Infants 3+,
Juniors 7+, Teens 12+, Student 16+, Workers 18+, Parents and
Grandparents. This aims to compliment the PEGI ratings by offering
advice on which games are a good fit for each of the PEGI age
groups:
http://www.gamepeople.co.uk/familygameoftheyear_2012.htm
Family Gamer TV (
http://www.youtube.com/familygamertv) subscribers
who vote for a winner can also win themselves a variety of prizes
from the £1000 of consoles, games and peripherals. Voting
closes at the end of January and winners will be announced in the
first week of February 2013.
About Family Gamer TV -
http://www.youtube.com/familygamertv
Family Gamer TV offers video-game guidance from real families
through its fly on the wall mini-docs that track gaming in family
life. The YouTube channel was started in 2011 to connect with this
family audience and has grown to 1.2 million viewers a month.
For more information contact series producer Andy Robertson (
editor@familygamer.co.uk).
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