The Academy has today announced the nominations for the GAME BAFTAs. In total there’s 44 different games up for nomination, with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood topping the lot with seven nominations.

[boxout]Black Ops is in there too, and it’s nice to see Heavy Rain up for artistic achievement, although with LIMBO up for the same award our money’s on the little black and white dude.

In a rather shameless lack of better ideas, here’s the entire list nicely formatted.  It took me a while, so if you ‘borrow’ the list, at least give us a nod.  Thanks!

Action

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• BioShock 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• God of War III
• Halo: Reach

Artistic Achievement

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• LIMBO
• Mass Effect 2

Best Game

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• FIFA 11
• Heavy Rain
• LIMBO
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Family

• Dance Central
• Kinect Adventures
• Kinect Sports
• Kinectimals
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Toy Story 3

Gameplay

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• LIMBO
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Handheld

• Cut the Rope
• God of War: Ghost of Sparta
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Professor Layton and the Lost Future
• Sonic Colours
• Super Scribblenauts

Multiplayer

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo: Reach
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Original Music

• Alan Wake
• Fable III
• Heavy Rain
• James Bond 007: Bloodstone
• Mass Effect 2
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Social Network Game

• Bejeweled Blitz
• Farmerama
• FIFA Superstars
• My Empire
• Zoo Mumba
• Zuma Blitz

Sports

• F1 2010
• FIFA 11
• Football Manager 2011
• Gran Turismo 5
• International Cricket 2010
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

Story

• Alan Wake
• BioShock 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Heavy Rain
• Mass Effect 2

Strategy

• Civilization V
• Fallout: New Vegas
• FIFA Manager 11
• Napoleon Total War
• Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
• Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Technical Innovation

• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo: Reach
• Heavy Rain
• Kinectimals
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Use of Audio

• Alan Wake
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• DJ Hero 2
• LIMBO

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

• Mush
• Sculpty
• Twang

GAME Award of 2010

(The only award to be voted for by the public)

• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Dance Central
• FIFA 11
• Halo Reach
• Heavy Rain
• Limbo
• Mass Effect 2
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Red Dead Redemption
• Super Mario Galaxy 2

Any thoughts?  Happy to see some great handheld games in there – it’s been a fabulous year for portables with Ghost of Sparta, Cut The Rope etc.

The awards will take place on Wednesday the 16th of March at the London Hilton on Park Lane.  Swanky.  They’ll be streamed live for the first time at http://go.ign.com/baftamicrosite and at http://www.baftagameaward.com