Siobhan Reddy (Media Molecule) to redeive BAFTA at 2021 BAFTA Games Awards

Siobhan Reddy will be honoured with the prestigious Fellowship at the BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 25 March 2021, hosted by presenter and journalist Elle Osili-Wood.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced today that Siobhan Reddy, Studio Director at Media Molecule, will be presented with the Fellowship at the British Academy Games Awards on Thursday 25 March 2021. The Fellowship is BAFTA’s highest accolade bestowed upon an individual, spotlighting Siobhan’s creative contribution to the industry.

BAFTA Games Awards 1 week left to vote 2021 nominees are: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Call of Duty: Warzone, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us 2 and VALORANT

Six nominees for the all-new EE Game of the Year Award are announced ahead of the British Academy Games Awards on Thursday 25th March 2021.

Brought to fans by EE, the UK’s number one network for gaming, the new award is the only category to be voted for by the global community of games fans. The shortlist was decided by a panel of games experts who were tasked with nominating six games that have resonated most with players around the world – capturing our imaginations and keeping us entertained and connected over the past year.

However, the jury panel have handed over control, with the decision now in the hands of the public.

This is the last week that the public can vote, with voting for EE Game of the Year open until 12:00pm on Monday 22nd March 2021 at ee.co.uk/BaftaGames.

BAFTA young game designer 2020 winners announced

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced the four winners of the 10th nationwide BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) competition. This year’s winners, selected by a jury of industry experts, were revealed at the first-ever digital ceremony, hosted by presenter Aoife Wilson.

BAFTA YGD discovers, showcases and supports Britain’s young games talent by providing access to some of the most creative minds in the industry, through a year-round programme of mentorship, workshops and networking. Further information can be found here.

BAFTA Winners Announced: 2020 British Academy Games Awards in full

• Outer Wilds wins Best Game, Game Design and Original Property
• Three BAFTAs also for Disco Elysium: Debut Game, Narrative and Music
• Observation wins British Game
• Untitled Goose Game wins Family Game
• Martti Suosalo (Control) wins Performer in a Supporting Role
• Gonzalo Martin (Life is Strange 2, episodes 2-5) wins Performer in a Leading Role
• Call of Duty: Mobile wins the public vote for EE Mobile Game of the Year

At tonight’s British Academy Games Awards, Outer Wilds, the action-adventure mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop, won Best Game, Game Design and Original Property.

Also winning three BAFTAs was the open-world, role playing detective game Disco Elysium, for Debut Game, Narrative and Music.

BAFTA Games Awards - all the winners and more

• God of War wins five BAFTAs
• Two BAFTAs each for Return of the Obra Dinn and Nintendo Labo
• Fortnite wins Evolving Game
• Old School Runescape wins EE Mobile Game of the Year

London, 4 April 2019: BAFTA has announced the winners of tonight’s British Academy Games Awards, which celebrated the very best in games of the past year. The ceremony was hosted by Dara O’Briain at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

BAFTA British Academy Games awards nominations announced

The British Academy Games Awards is BAFTA’s annual celebration of the very best in games of the past 12 months. The nominations announced today highlight an outstanding level of creative excellence from a broad range of UK and international development teams. The Awards take place on Thursday 4 April 2019.

The highlights of today’s nominations are:
• 10 nominations for God of War, the action adventure game and the eighth instalment in the series.
• Six nominations each for Red Dead Redemption 2, Return of the Obra Dinn and Florence.
• Five nominations for Celeste, including Game Beyond Entertainment. The game’s narrative encourages players to overcome struggles, persevere and achieve their goals with compassion, and aims to bring a greater understanding of mental illness.
• Other nominations in Game Beyond Entertainment are 11-11: Memories Retold, Florence, Life is Strange 2, My Child Lebensborn and Nintendo Labo.

Voting opened on Tuesday 12 March for the EE Mobile Game of the Year, the only award voted for by the public. The shortlist is Brawl Stars, Clash Royale, Fortnite, Old School Runescape, Pokémon Go and Roblox. Vote now at ee.co.uk/BAFTAgames.

The Spectrum Retreat releases for Nintendo Switch on September 13th

BAFTA Young Game Designer winner, Dan Smith, and publisher, Ripstone Games, are proud to bring its acclaimed sci-fi puzzler The Spectrum Retreat to the Nintendo Switch eShop on September 13th, where it will cost £9.99 €12.99 $12.99. The Spectrum Retreat will be available in Europe and North America, with a release in Germany and Russia to follow later in 2018.

The Spectrum Retreat is the brainchild of Dan Smith, who won the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award in 2016 for his first-person puzzler prototype when he was only 18 years old. Since then, Ripstone’s internal development team has partnered with Smith to evolve his award-winning prototype into a trippy, art deco-inspired sci-fi adventure.

BAFTA announced Dr Jo Twist OBE as Chair of Games Committee

Jo Twist is a long-standing member of the BAFTA Games Committee and has also served on the Learning & New Talent Committee. She has actively supported the BAFTA Breakthrough Brits and BAFTA Young Game Designers new talent initiatives, and sat on the organisation’s task force examining sexual harassment and bullying in the film, games and television industries.

Twist takes up her role during a period of expansion, as BAFTA grows its games membership in the UK and North America, and seeks to promote the craft of game creation, and the cultural importance of games, to a global audience.

BAFTA Award Winner Dan Smith Launching The Spectrum Retreat this July - Pc PS4 XOne

BAFTA Young Game Designer winner, Dan Smith, and publisher, Ripstone Games, are proud to share the release date for The Spectrum Retreat for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

The upcoming first-person narrative puzzler will come to PlayStation 4 from July 10th. The game will launch globally for Xbox One and PC on July 13th with Nintendo Switch following later this summer. In The Spectrum Retreat players must explore the pristine and uncanny hotel, The Penrose, solving a series of ingenious colour-coded puzzles, all the while uncovering the reasons behind their seemingly never-ending stay. To celebrate the news, Ripstone Games has produced an all-new launch trailer, showing never seen before footage. The Spectrum Retreat will launch for £9.99 €12.99 $12.99.*

How to watch The British Academy Games Awards with Dara O'Briain

The British Academy Games Awards take place tomorrow at Troxy, London, where host Dara O’Briain and an array of stellar presenters will be celebrating the very best in games of the past year.

For those who cannot attend in person, for the first time, the British Academy Games Awards will be streamed live on all major platforms including BAFTA’s Twitch, Twitter (@BAFTAGames), YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, Steam,

Through a new partnership with IGN, the awards will also be streamed to an additional 12 platforms including PlutoTV, Amazon Fire, AppleTV, Roku, PS4, Xbox, Mixer, Twitter and Facebook.

Tune in from 17.30 for red carpet arrivals and from 19.00 for the ceremony.

2016 Game BAFTA - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture leads the way...

The nominations for the British Academy Games Awards in 2016 have been announced.

EVERYBODY’S GONE TO THE RAPTURE LEADS WITH 10 NOMINATIONS
HER STORY AND THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT RECEIVE SEVEN
BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT, LIFE IS STRANGE AND ROCKET LEAGUE ALL RECEIVE FIVE NOMINATIONS EACH

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the nominations for the British Academy Games Awards in 2016. A total of 44 games have been recognised across 17 categories, showcasing the very best games of the past 12 months and highlighting an outstanding level of creative excellence from a broad range of UK and international development teams.

BAFTA Young Game Designer awards 2015 - Minecraft to receive first ever BAFTA YGD Hero Award

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced the finalists in a nation-wide game design competition for 10-18 year-olds.

The 40 young hopefuls, who were selected by a jury of industry experts, will attend a special awards ceremony at BAFTA’s headquarters, 195 Piccadilly in London, on Saturday 25 July, where the winners will be revealed.

2011 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards BAFTA Heavy Rain, Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Civilization V honoured at UK game awards

HEAVY RAIN won three awards at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards at the London Hilton, hosted by Dara O’Briain. The film noir-style thriller took home the BAFTAs for Original Music, Technical Innovation and Story.

No BAFTA for Red Dead Redemption as 'huffy' RockStar pull game from awards...

RockStar have pulled their smash hit video game of 2011 Red Dead Redemption from this year's video game BAFTA awards.

Miyamoto awarded BAFTA Academy Fellowship in the Video Games Sector

Shigeru Miyamoto's career began in 1977, when he was hired by a family friend - Hiroshi Yamauchi, then president of Nintendo - as a staff artist. Yamauchi selected Miyamoto to re-work the company's unsuccessful arcade machine Radar Scope and, after working on a range of new options, Miyamoto eventually settled on the characters and composition which became one of the first running-and-jumping "platform" games, Donkey Kong.

2010 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards results - here's the winners....

UK British Academy Video Games Awards 2010 - the winners
Action

Assassin’s Creed II
Sebastien Puel, Patrice Desilets
Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Development Team
Rocksteady Studios/Eidos

British Academy video game Award nominations 2010

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves leads with 9 BAFTA nominationsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 garners 8 nominationsBatman: Arkham Asylum follows with 7 and Assassin's Creed II with 6

The Academy announce the nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. This year 40 different games have been recognized and together they represent some of the most popular, innovative and cutting-edge creativity in today’s gaming industry.

Masaya Matsuura to deliver BAFTA Vision Statement at GameCity Squared

GameCity Squared, the fourth iteration of the world's best loved video game culture festival is proud to announce that the father of rhythm-action, Masaya Matsuura will be delivering this year's BAFTA Vision Statement at the festival on Saturday 31st October.

Following in the footsteps of Lorne Lanning, Keita Takahashi and Alex Evans, Matsuura-san promises to deliver an extraordinary keynote in the heart of the city that will dissect the state of the music game genre and give some personal insights into the future of video games.

"The Vision Statement is a unique platform for the most interesting, provocative developers in the World to deliver their thoughts and manifestos independent of any PR constraint. We're beside ourselves with excitement that Matsuura-san has agreed to deliver the address this year", said GameCity director Iain Simons.

He'll be in good company - with full details yet to be announced, a radical set of new venues and a free to attend programme, GameCity Squared promises to be the most audacious GameCity yet.

GameCity runs from 27 - 31 October, 2009. www.gamecity.org

Video Game 'Section 8' to feature original music by BAFTA winning Jason Graves

BAFTA award-winning composer Jason Graves (www.jasongraves.com) has created an original music score for the intense first-person shooter SECTION 8 developed by TimeGate Studios. Renowned for his cinematic and prolific orchestral music on video games such as Dead Space and the Star Trek franchise, Graves delivers a powerful and anthemic score for SECTION 8 featuring vintage synth and guitar elements blended with orchestra to portray the futuristic, sci-fi setting of the game. SECTION 8 is being released by SouthPeak Games for Xbox 360 and PC on September 1st, 2009.

"SECTION 8 was a great opportunity to combine my three musical passions: orchestra, electronics/synths and guitars," said composer Jason Graves. "It was so much fun playing guitar and tweaking my analog synths. I treated them as additional members of the orchestra, sometimes taking the spotlight and other times adding textural background."

SECTION 8 gives players unprecedented strategic control over the battlefield, employing tactical assets and on-demand vehicle deliveries to dynamically alter the flow of combat. Set at the crossroads of a growing insurrection among its colonies, Earth dispatches the elite 8th Armored Infantry to turn the tide. Utilizing advanced powered armor suits, these brave volunteers are the only ones crazy enough to smash through enemy defenses and drop directly into the battlefield from 15,000 feet, earning them the nickname "Section 8."

"The music focuses on the two primary locations of the game," added Graves. "One is more orchestral in nature and the other has a hybrid rock edge to it. TimeGate gave me a lot of freedom to try different things - it was refreshing to experiment with such a diverse sound palette."

For more information about the game please visit www.JoinSection8.com.

Sid Meier’s Civilization - Revolution wins ‘Best Strategy Game’ award at 2009 Video Game BAFTAs

2K Games is happy to announce the success of Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution in the Best Strategy Game category at yesterday’s 2009 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony in London. Producer Barry Caudill from Civilization Revolution developer Firaxis was present to accept the award.

This achievement is testament to years of dedicated effort at Firaxis and 2K, and demonstrates that classic strategy gaming is as relevant today as it ever was – if not more so. The latest current-gen console incarnation of the traditionally PC-based Civilization series, Civilization Revolution beat off stiff competition from other noted strategy titles, including Advance Wars: Dark Conflict and Command And Conquer: Red Alert 3.