Paris, March 4th, 2015 – Gameloft, a leading publisher of digital and social games, confirms the success of its hit racing game Asphalt 8: Airborne by winning in the Best Mobile Game App category at the 2015 GSMA Global Mobile Awards. With more than 120 million downloads, the latest installment in the successful Asphalt series, Asphalt 8: Airborne features more than 90 licensed dream cars to race in 13 exotic locations.
Over 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics and other industry experts from around the world took part in the voting process to determine the winners. The prize was awarded in Barcelona during the GSMA Global Mobile Awards at the Mobile World Congress 2015.
“We’re thrilled to have received this honor. This proves yet again the huge popularity of the series which we’ve been working on for the past 10 years with just as much passion as ever,” states Gonzague DE VALLOIS, SVP Sales & Marketing at Gameloft. “This Global Mobile Award definitively crowns Asphalt as not only the benchmark for all fans of arcade racing games on smartphones and tablets, but also as one of the top entertainment experiences in the world.”
After an amazing year in 2014, which saw Asphalt 8: Airborne winning three 2014 Pocket Gamer Awards, along with being Gamelab’s Best Game for smartphones/tablets, Korea Game Awards’ Most Popular Game, it has frequently been considered as one of the best games for mobile devices on several websites. The critically acclaimed racing game will no doubt take the same road in 2015!
Asphalt 8: Airborne will continue its race to the top by continuing to add new content in the future, starting with the upcoming update! This update, which will be available shortly on various app stores, will introduce, among other exciting content, one of the fans’ most requested features: visually modify your cars with thousands of decal combinations to choose from!