European Games Award

August 16, 2010: We at wooga are proud to announce: Our game Bubble Island won "Best Social Game" at the "European Games Awards".

Christopher Parschat & John Hargelid receive the European Games Award photo credit: Aruba Events and photographer: Carsten Klask

The European Games Award (http://www.european-games-award.com/) was awarded this weekend in Cologne, Germany, as part of Gamescom, the world’s largest games event with ca. 250,000 visitors per year.

Bubble Island won against strong competition such as EA Sports FIFA Superstars from EA-Playfish. The award was accepted by Bubble-Island creator Christopher Parschat (left on the photo) and Creative Producer John Hargelid (right).

In parallel we have rolled-out a completely new game mode for Bubble Island:

Level of the Week

This new game mode challenges users to get a high-score within 60 seconds.

For Bubble Island, this is the most important update to the game since it launched on February 1st, 2010. We have spent several months fine-tuning this for the best possible experience and initial user feedback is tremendous. Overall Bubble Island usage has increased already by 40% in just 3 short days!

Bubble Island is now played by 5 million users every month and they spent 1 billion minutes playing it – per month.

Here is a short video introducing the new gameplay mode: