The BAFTA Games Awards were held last night, dishing out another bunch of accolades for the year that was 2018. You won’t be surprised to hear some of the big winners, as God of War mopped up five awards, including Best Game, there were two awards each for Return of the Obra Dinn and Nintendo Labo, and Fortnite was considered the best Evolving Game.
Let’s see who won what:
- ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT – RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN – Lucas Pope,3909
- AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT – GOD OF WAR – Mike Niederquell, Todd Piperi, Leilani Ramirez – Santa Monica Studio
- BEST GAME – GOD OF WAR – Cory Barlog, Yumi Yang, Shannon Studstill – Santa Monica Studio
- BRITISH GAME – FORZA HORIZON 4  – Playground Games
- DEBUT GAME – YOKU’S ISLAND EXPRESS – Villa Gorilla
- EVOLVING GAME – FORTNITE – Epic Games
- FAMILY – NINTENDO LABO – Nintendo
- GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT – MY CHILD LEBENSBORN – Sarepta Studio AS, Teknopilot AS
- GAME DESIGN – RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN – Lucas Pope
- GAME INNOVATION – NINTENDO LABO – Nintendo
- MOBILE GAME – FLORENCE – Mountains, Annapurna InteractiveMULTIPLAYER – A WAY OUT – Hazelight/
- MUSIC – GOD OF WAR – Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro – Santa Monica Studio
- NARRATIVE – GOD OF WAR – Cory Barlog, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert – Santa Monica Studio
- ORIGINAL PROPERTY – INTO THE BREACH – Subset Games
- PERFORMER – JEREMY DAVIES as The Stranger in God of War
- EE MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR (voted for by the public) – OLD SCHOOL RUNESCAPE – Jagex
If you really want to watch the whole ceremony, hosted as usual by Dara Ó Briain, you can do so here:
Source: Press release
camdaz
I’ve never played a God of War game but I’ll be giving the latest a go when/if it’s one of the PS+ monthly games.
On the BBC news at 10 last night they said the British games industry is going from strength to strength and is worth more than the film and music industry combined. Great news.
MrYd
They spelled Red Dead Redemption 2 wrong!
Although I’ll accept it winning for music, just because it’s Bear McCreary.
JR.
I think (prior to release) we all thought RDR2 would sweep the awards. But having played it, I totally understand why it isn’t… It’s a technical marvel but my god is it boring as hell.
RDR was so good. I think R* should stop taking themselves so seriously and inject a little fun back into their games.
Not that anyone cares what I think ?
Tuffcub
So what you’re saying is.. our score was about right. Despite the huge amount of shit we got for not giving it 10/10
Well whodathunk :)
Tony Cawley
@tuffcub I’ve just looked up the tsa review, it got 10/10 from tsa.
Am I being super thick here again?