Karlsruhe, 6.12.2012– Last night, the magazine Human Resources Manager held its first HR Excellence Awards in Berlin. The image video of Karlsruhe-based company Gameforge ( www.corporate.gameforge.com) was awarded the HR Excellence Award for Best Employer Video (Bestes Arbeitgebervideo) in the Tools for Recruiting and Employer Branding ( Instrumente des Recruitings und des Employer Brandings) category.

The evening honoured small and medium-sized businesses as well as corporate groups, in 30 different categories. The awards are issued to the most successful and innovative human resource management projects– from recruiting campaigns to staff development and employee retention.

The Gameforge image video was nominated and distinguished for its creativity, range, authenticity and clear message.“It is a great honour for Gameforge to receive this award, in light of the accomplished jury behind it. We hoped that our HR film would inspire applications from creative talent and we have very much achieved this goal since the video’s release”, Heiko Schinköthe, Vice President of Human Resources, said on occasion of the awards ceremony.”

The image video is available on Gameforge’s YouTube-Channel and on the Homepage.

About Gameforge

With an impressive portfolio of 20 titles and over 380 million registered players, Gameforge is one of the leading providers of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in the western hemisphere. Based in Karlsruhe, the internationally active group of companies offer their games in more than 50 languages. Their portfolio contains client based games such as AION, TERA, Metin2 (Europe’s most successful MMOG), 4Story, Runes of Magic, Elsword, Wizard101 and RaiderZ. They also offer browser based online games such as the classic OGame, the award-winning Ikariam and mobile games. The company employs around 600 employees at its locations in Karlsruhe and Berlin.

Contact

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Tanja Weerts

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Albert-Nestler-Str. 8· 76131 Karlsruhe· Germany

Tel +49 (0)721-354 808 0

Fax +49 (0)721-354 808 152

Mail tanja.weerts@gameforge.com

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