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Surely the 2012 edition of the BAFTA Game Awards were cleaned up by Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V: Skryim, Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 3 and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3?
Nope.
In fact, after receiving a number of nominees for this year’s awards ceremony, none of them received a single final nod, while titles like Portal 2, Battlefield 3 and Batman: Arkham City swept up most of the awards at the show.
You can read through the full list of nominees over here, and compare them to the final list of BAFTA Game Awards winners below:
The nominees for the videogame segment of this year’s BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards have been announced in a mighty list of categories spanning ‘Action,’ ‘Artistic Achievement,’ ‘Debut Game’ and many, many more.
Included in the lists are mainstay award winners such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3, Batman: Arkham City, LA Noire, Bastion, Battlefield 3 and others, but the question is, which game are you rooting for?
This ultra-prestigious award ceremony will take place on March 16th, with a live-stream happening on the BAFTA games website, but for now, here is the full, massive list of nominees for 2012’s BAFTA Game Awards:
Mass Effect and Heavy Rain were two titles that came out tops at the British Academy Video Games Awards (BAFTA) recently held in London.
Heavy Rain walked away with three BAFTAs, for Original Music, Technical Innovation and Story. Mass Effect was crowned Best Game, applauded for being a “combined achievement of technology, art, design [and] audio… a beautiful complete gaming experience.”
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the full list of nominations for this year’s videogame portion of the academy’s awards ceremony.
With Red Dead Redemption not being considered for a BAFTA game award this year (Rockstar declined the opportunity to be nominated), victory opportunities have been opened up for other worthy games including Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Bioshock 2, God of War III and Call of Duty: Black Ops in the ‘Action’ category.
Fifteen other categories will also feature on the night to honour numerous great games from 2010.
The winners of the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards were honoured late last week Friday, and as expected, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves received its fair share of nods during the evening, taking home four awards, but it was Batman: Arkham Asylum that ultimately took home the top prize: Best Game.
Also of note, legendary videogame designer Shigeru Miyamoto was present at the event to receive his BAFTA fellowship award (and, as an aside, mentioned that work on Pikmin 3 for the Wii is well underway… interesting).
You can read through the full list of nominations for this year’s GAME British Academy Video Games Awards over here, and see all of the winners in all of the categories below:
Shigeru Miyamoto, the Nintendo game designer best known for his creation of Mario Bros, will receive the Academy’s Fellowship at this year’s GAME British Academy Video Game Awards (BAFTA).
Miyamoto is currently the General Manager of Nintendo, Analysis and Development, although he is also referred to as the “father of modern video games” and the Steven Spielberg of the gaming world. Not surprising given his creation of Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Nintendogs, Wii Music and the aforementioned Mario Bros.
The nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards have been announced, with 40 different games being recognised altogether representing “some of the most popular, innovative and cutting-edge creativity in today’s gaming industry.”
Of those 40 games, Uncharted 2 leads the number of nominations with nine nods, followed closely by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with eight, and Batman: Arkham Asylum with seven.
This year’s awards will also include a publicly-voted category called the GAME Award of 2009, and comprises games such as Assassin’s Creed II, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. You can have your say and vote on your favourite game in this category over here.
The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards will take place on Friday, the 19th of March at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The Awards will be streamed live for the first time at www.bafta.org and www.baftagameaward.com.
The full list of nominations for this year’s awards follows below:
The BAFTA Video Game Awards were held last night, where top games and achievements within the games industry were recognised with awards ranging from ‘Best Game’ and best ‘Gameplay,’ to best ‘Original Score’ and best ‘Technical Achievement.’
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare received the most awards of the night, most likely pleasing Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard no end.
Super Mario Galaxy, Fably II and Left 4 Dead also received recognition for their efforts during the ceremony.
Have a look below at the full list of categories and winners.
The legendary founder of the legendary Atari (in its initial form in the 70’s), as well as the man behind Pong, Nolan Bushnell is to receive the prestigious Fellowship award from BAFTA at this year’s British Academy Video Game Awards in March. Bushnell said:
“I am humbled to be selected for this honour from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
“The British people are not only great game players but have historically been some of the best game creators. The pub culture and country house drawing room environments have been instrumental in spawning games and game players through the centuries.
“I am very grateful to receive an award from the people with a history of creating and embracing this type of entertainment.”
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards are going continue to acknowledge excellence in the video game industry after a delay in proceedings.
Every year, BAFTA awards are handed out to films, video games and television programmes that have achieved in terms of quality. Last year, the BAFTA judges had to use pre-release code to judge the winners in the video game category to get their full impressions in time for the October event, which is no good. This year’s event has been canceled because the judges felt they didn’t have enough time to play through the selection of games. As a result, the BAFTA awards ceremony will be held on March 10th 2009, at the London Hilton on Park Lane, with the nominations for the event to be announced on February 10th, 2009.
One new feature of the awards process is that nominees are encouraged to submit short-films, detailing the development of the game in a ‘behind-the-scenes.’ These films are then to be posted on the BAFTA website as well as distributed to gaming websites to help promote the games up for consideration for an award.
Chairman of the Academy’s Games committee, Ray Maguire said “We are keen to see the new filmed support material be developed by each nominee, as this is the sort of initiative that helps the wider world understand that the creation and development of video games is an art form, often with teams of hundreds of people and budgets on a par with feature films.”
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