This afternoon at the CTIA trade show, attendees were treated to something new--an award ceremony devoted exclusively to mobile games. The First Annual Best of Wireless Gaming Awards, or the "Mobies," were handed out at the event in Atlanta.

　　Mobile game news and review site Wireless Gaming Review (WGR) organized and produced the event, whittling a field of 120 finalists down to 20 winners.

　　Games came from almost a dozen countries, including Japan, India, Finland, France, Germany, the US, and the UK. The judging panel was a mix of games critics, industry insiders, and game design professionals.

　　WGR cofounder and Mobies judge Matthew Bellows said in a statement, “Mobile game programmers, artists, and producers have done amazing things with incredibly limited resources. It’s high time that their efforts were celebrated at a ceremony like this."

　　The full list of Mobies winners is as follows. For mobile newbies, the Lightweight categories cover games that check in at under 256K and can be downloaded from a carrier's game deck, while the Unlimited categories are for larger games targeted for running on MS Smartphone and Symbian operating systems or for the N-Gage.

　　Lightweight

　　Action: Nightmare Creatures, Gameloft

　　Adventure: EverQuest: Hero's Call, Sony Online Entertainment

　　Puzzle/Board: Bejeweled Multiplayer, JAMDAT Mobile

　　Platform: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Gameloft

　　Strategy: Lemonade Tycoon, JAMDAT Mobile

　　Sports: JAMDAT Bowling 2, JAMDAT Mobile

　　Unlimited

　　Action: Spy Hunter, Fathammer

　　Adventure: Pandemonium, Ideaworks3D

　　Puzzle: Slurp, JAMDAT Mobile

　　Platform: Rayman 3, Gameloft

　　Strategy: Lemonade Tycoon (Smartphone), JAMDAT Mobile

　　Sports: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Ideaworks3D

　　Best Lightweight Game

　　Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Gameloft

　　Best Unlimited Game

　　Spy Hunter, Fathammer

　　Best Mobile Game of 2003

　　Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Ideaworks3D

　　WGR (which is in the process of being acquired by CNET Networks) has posted additional information on the event and is also covering CTIA from the perspective of its editors, who are roaming the show floor.