The review chair, professor Raine Koskimaa, handed in Friday the Best Paper Award to Simo Järvelä who accepted the prize for paper “Digital Games as Experiment Stimulus”, co-authored by Simo Järvelä, Inger Ekman, J. Matias Kivikangas, and Niklas Ravaja. The conference committee commended the paper for interdisciplinary scholarship that combines solid understanding of games and game studies with the challenging field of psycho-physiological research.