The Pocket Gamer Podcast Episode 101 - Pocket Gamer Awards nominations, Silver Palace, and Donald Glover's PUBG
On cheekiness and seriousness
What's your favourite mobile game adaptation of all time? And have you nominated your favourites over at the Pocket Gamer Awards yet? It's all about the possible entries in this year's PGAs across a variety of categories in this episode of the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast!
Iwan and Will are all about highlighting the Pocket Gamer Awards this year, because nominations are now open and will close on November 15th. You can nominate your favourite mobile games across different categories, including Best Character, Best Game We're Still Playing, Best Community, Best Webshop, Best Game Update and Best In-Game Collab.
Iwan kicks things off with the Most Anticipated Game category, in which Will suggests Warhammer Survivors while Iwan puts Silver Palace up for offer. Obviously, this category doesn't need to fall into the eligibility period of a game having launched between the 1st of October 2025 and 30th September 2026, so it's all up in the air.
They do bring up a very interesting point, which is that there's currently no category for Best Sound for the PGAs! That's definitely something we ought to consider for the 14th edition next year.
That brings the conversation over to the Best In-Game Collab, in which we've had some pretty odd ones over the past few months, including WWE Champions x Cowboy Bebop. There are notable ones too, like Monopoly Go! x K-pop Demon Hunters. Then there's also Best Mobile Port, which reminds Iwan of the mixed reactions for Boltgun Boom. But for Dave the Diver, Iwan and Will both agree that it's one of the greats.
As for the new categories, there's Best Mobile Webshop and Best Mobile Game Character, and while Will thinks GingerBrave is a true icon, Iwan wouldn't be surprised if Valko from Love and Deepspace makes a comeback.
Moving on from the awards, the PUBG live-action series is definitely something to talk about, as Will and Iwan share their thoughts on the upcoming Netflix show. This brings references to Golden Axe, Free Fire, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Street Fighter, and so much more - but at the end of the day, we can only hope this new PUBG adaptation will show us all a good time!
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