Nordic Game Awards 2026

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Award results and concrete highlights: people's choice from ~200 expo games goes to Lootbound (tactical roguelike), Midnight Walk wins Best Art for handmade clay stop-motion visuals, Lego Voyagers takes Best Fun for Everyone, The County earns Best Debut, Split Fiction wins Best Game Design, and Arc Raiders claims both Best Technology and Nordic Game of the Year for its reactive multiplayer systems. The show lists juries, sponsors (AMD, Dathost, PixelTV) and on-stage reactions — clear winners and why they won.

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1. 0:00Welcome to Nordic Game Awards 2026
2. 3:03Host introduction
3. 6:17Awards ceremony overview
4. 7:23People's Choice Award
5. 14:12Best Art winner
6. 19:43Best Fun for Everyone winner
7. 24:16Best Technology by AMD winner
8. 29:05Ukrainian game industry resilience
9. 35:38Best Debut winner
10. 40:01Best Audio winner
11. 44:41Ari Pulkkinen tribute
12. 52:53Best Game Design winner
13. 57:59Nordic Game of the Year 2026
14. 1:03:27Closing remarks

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