Perforce Takes Home Games Industry Excellence Award for Third Consecutive Year

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28 Jul, 2016, 13:00 GMT

The SCM Leader Wins Award for Best Production Tool at one of Europe's Leading Game Development Conferences

WOKINGHAM, United Kingdom, July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Perforce, the game development industry's preferred version control and collaboration solution, recently accepted the award for Best Production Tool at the annual Develop conference and exhibition in Brighton, U.K. Perforce also extends congratulations to several of its customers who also took home awards at the event. Develop, one of Europe's leading game development conferences attracted over 1800 developers from small indie shops to global game studios.

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Perforce customers took home awards in 10 of the 21 categories this year including:

  • New Games IP Mobile
    Space Ape Games, "Rival Kingdoms"
  • Use of a License or IP
    CD Projekt RED, "The Witcher III: Wild Hunt"
  • Visual Arts
    CD Projekt RED, "The Witcher III: Wild Hunt"
  • Audio Accomplishment
    The Chinese Room, "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture"
  • Engine
    Epic Games, Unreal Engine 4
  • Audio
    CD Projekt RED with Side
    "The Witcher III: Wild Hunt"
  • Visual & Development
    D3T "The Witcher III: Wild Hunt" (PS4)
  • Indie Studio
    CD Projekt RED
  • In-House Studio
    Rocksteady
  • Studio of the Year
    CD Projekt RED

The Develop Industry Excellence Awards program recognizes the top creators and innovators in the games development industry across the UK and Europe. Organized by Develop, the popular gaming industry magazine, the prestigious awards are the only peer-voted prizes in the region.

"We are honored to play an instrumental role in game development at our customers' studios. Developers and artists alike put Perforce to the test tens of millions of times per day on their path to greatness. We aim to optimize our customers' interactions with Perforce software minimizing down time while maximizing performance and scalability," said Perforce CEO Janet Dryer.

The industry consistently chooses Perforce to enable speed and control over game development and large projects that include multiple file types of all sizes. Perforce version control software mitigates risk by giving developers complete control over permissions, validation triggers, and file locking.

About Perforce
Perforce Software helps companies build complex products more collaboratively and securely. Its highly scalable source code management (SCM) and collaboration platform, Perforce Helix, enables global teams to collaborate on any type or size of file. It supports both centralized and distributed (DVCS) workflows while safeguarding intellectual property with advanced behavioral analytics. Perforce is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including adidas, Samsung, NVIDIA, Intuit, Pixar, Salesforce, EA, Ubisoft, and VMware. The company has offices in the US, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com

Media Contacts
Global
Colleen Kulhanek
Perforce Software
Ph: +1 510-473-3069
Mob: +1 651-307-9486
ckulhanek@perforce.com

US
Michael Thomas
Edelman
Ph: +1 206-664-7834
Mob: +1 2016-883-3314
michael.thomas@edelman.com

UK
Maxine Ambrose/Nicola Males
Ambrose Communications
Ph: +44 1491 412944
perforce@ambrosecomms.co.uk

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