Lara Award
The Lara Award was an award from Germany that was given annually from 2007 to 2014 for computer and video games . The organizer was initially the publisher G + J Entertainment Media , later the successor Busch Entertainment Media . Between 2010 and 2014 the prize was awarded together with the German Computer Game Prize. When the cooperation ended in 2014, the award was no longer given.
The categories
- 1. LARA Family Award - For the best game with no age limit
- 2. LARA Kids Award - For the best game from 6 years
- 3. LARA Teen Award - For the best game from the age of 12
- 4. LARA Youth Award - For the best game from 16 years of age
Special prices:
- 5th LARA Education Award
- 6th LARA Cinema Award
- 7th LARA TV Award
- 8th LARA Music Award
- 9th LARA Action Award
- 10th LARA audience award
- 11th LARA Startup Award
- 12. Lara of Honor, Lifetime Achievement Award
- 13. Lara Online Award
The 2007 award winners
The presentation of the Lara Award took place for the first time on May 9, 2007 in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich and was moderated by Nova Meierhenrich .
- Family Award: Dr. Kawashima's Brain Jogging - How Fit Is Your Brain?
- Kids Award: Anno 1701
- Teen Award: Motorstorm
- Youth Award: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Legend
- Education Award: LUKA and the mysterious silver horse
- Cinema Award: 7 Zwerge - One game is not enough ... - PC game for the movie 7 Zwerge - The forest is not enough
- TV Award: Alarm for Cobra 11 - Nitro - PC game for the television series of the same name
- Music Award: Guitar Hero II
- Startup Award: Chimera Entertainment
The 2008 award winners
The second award ceremony took place on May 15, 2008 in the Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel Munich and, as in the previous year, was moderated by Nova Meierhenrich.
- Family Award: Project Gotham Racing 4
- Kids Award: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Teen Award: The Simpsons - The Game
- Youth Award: Assassin's Creed
- Education Award: Genius: At the Center of Power - Strategy - Politics
- Kino Award: Ratatouille - PC game for the movie of the same name
- TV Award: High School Musical: Sing It!
- Music Award: SingStar - Die Toten Hosen
- Action Award: The Witcher
- Audience award: Dr. Kawashima: More brain jogging
The 2009 award winners
The third presentation of the Lara Awards took place on June 24th, 2009 in the Cologne Coloneum and was moderated by Nazan Eckes . The following winners were awarded:
- Lara of Honor, Lifetime Achievement Award, Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov
- Lara Education Award for 2wo stone: Learning - Training - Playing (Brainmonster Studios)
- Family Award: Little Big Planet ( Sony )
- Kids Award: Edna breaks out ( Daedalic )
- Teen Award: The Black Eye: Drakensang ( dtp entertainment )
- Youth Award: Mirrors Edge ( Electronic Arts )
- Action Award: Fallout 3 ( Ubisoft )
- Online Award: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King ( Activision Blizzard )
- Kino Award: DWK5 - Behind the Horizon (The Games Company)
- TV Award: Germany's Next Top Model 2009 ( SevenOne Intermedia )
- Music Award: Guitar Hero World Tour (Activision Blizzard)
- E-Sportsman of the Year: Turtle Entertainment
The 2010 award winners
The fourth Lara Award was presented on June 30, 2010 in Cologne at the Staathaus am Rheinpark . As in the previous year, the event was moderated by Nazan Eckes.
- Family Award: Scribblenauts
- Kids Award: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Teen Award: Final Fantasy XIII
- Youth Award: Heavy Rain
- Education Award: Winterfest - The educational game
- Action Award: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Audience Award: Red Dead Redemption
- Startup Award: addmore games UG
- Lara of Honor, Lifetime Achievement Award Nolan Bushnell , Founder of Atari
- Online Award: Farmerama
- Innovation of the Year: NVIDIA 3D Vision
- Dealer of the year: Müller Ltd. & Co.KG
- Publisher of the Year: Electronic Arts
- Special Award: rondomedia Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH ( astragon Software )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LARA celebrates a glamorous premiere. In: GamesMarkt . May 10, 2007, accessed August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ LARA Night: Glamorous night of stars and radiant winners. Presentation of the LARA - The German Games Award - with a gala on May 15th, 2008 in the Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel Munich. In: Ganz-muenchen.de. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ LARA 2009: Next level with many stars and brilliant winners. In: GamesMarkt . June 25, 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Oliver Hartmann: Special LARA Awards 2009: Stars, starlets and shining winners (special). In: Spieletipps.de . June 25, 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
- ^ Nicole Lange: LARA Award 2010. In: derwesten.de . July 1, 2010, accessed August 22, 2019 .