MELBOURNE – Monday 11 May, 2009 – Time’s running out for any Australian or New Zealand based game developers wanting to enter their new games titles in the 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM awards ‘Interactive / Video Games’ category.

“The ATOM Awards are all about recognising and celebrating excellence in productions that are created for the screen – be it the movie, television, PC, games console or even mobile phone screen. Last year we introduced categories to recognise excellence in interactive video games and were thrilled with the response from game developers and students alike,” commented Amber Nelson, ATOM Awards Spokesperson.

“Games have become such a fantastic part of the creative outlet that we call ‘media’, that we really wanted to celebrate games technology as part of the ATOM Awards program.”

“So, we’re putting out the call to all those fabulous games developers we have out there to enter their productions in the 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards. After all, you’ve got to be in it, to win it,” she added.

There are two key interactive video games categories in the ATOM Awards program – ‘Best Interactive Video Game’, which is open to both game developers and students and ‘Best Tertiary Interactive Video Game’, which is only open to tertiary student created works.

“The ATOM Awards program is designed to acknowledge the work that our current and future talent is contributing to the big screen, across a wide range of media and we are looking forward to another mind-blowing display of creativity again this year,” Ms Nelson concluded.

Entries for the 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards will close at 12pm on Monday 15 June, 2009.

Awards will be presented to the most outstanding entrants at the 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards Gala Presentation, held in the Plaza Ballroom at the Regent Theatre on Friday 23 October, 2009.

The judging panels for the 2009 Enhance TV ATOM Awards will include a number of film and multimedia industry specialists as well as a number of judges representing a ‘sample’ of the target audience in certain sections – for example teachers and children in the Best Children’s Television Series and Primary School categories.

For more information or to enter the 2009 Enhance TV ATOM Awards please visit www.atomawards.org