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Thu, Feb 16, 2012 | 15:20 GMT

BAFTA 2012: Arkham City, LA Noire, UC3 lead nominations

Batman: Arkham City and LA Noire lead the way for the 2012 BAFTA Game Awards with eight nominations each.

The Rocksteady and Team Bondi epics go up against one another for the Best Game award alongside, FIFA 12, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Portal 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Also up for nods are Uncharted 3 and LittleBigPlanet 2 with six nods, while Portal 2 and Skyrim gain five nominations. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is up for four awards, with Dark Souls gaining two nods.

In the Performer Award, it’ll be the well-known faces of Stephen Fry (LBP2′s narrator) and Stephen Merchant (Portal 2′s Wheatley) going up against the likes of Nolan North (Uncharted 3′s Drake), Aaron Stanton (LA Noire’s Cole Phelps) and Mark Hamil (Arkham City’s Joker), with Togo Igawa (Shogun 2′s Dipolomat, Advisor and Military General) rounding off the list.

Get the full list of nominations below.

Action
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations
• Batman: Arkham City
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Portal 2
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Artistic Achievement
• Batman: Arkham City
• L.A. Noire
• LitteBigPlanet 2
• Raymans Origins
• The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Audio Achievement
• Batman: Arkham City
• Battlefield 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• Dead Space 2
• The Nightjar
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Best Game
• Batman: Arkham City
• FIFA 2012
• L.A. Noire
• Portal 2
• The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Debut Game
• Bastion
• Eufloria
• Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
• L.A. Noire
• Monstermind
• RIFT

Design
• Batman: Arkham City
• L.A. Noire
• LittleBigPlanet 2
• Portal 2
• Super Mario 3D Land
• The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim

Family
• Dance Central 2
• Kinect Sports 2
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
• LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
• LittleBigPlanet 2
• Mario Kart 7

Game Innovation
• Bastion
• Child of Eden
• From Dust
• L.A. Noire
• LittleBigPlanet 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Mobile & Handheld
• Dead Space iOS
• Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint
• Peggle
• Quarrel
• Super Mario 3D Land
• The Nightjar

Online – Browser
• Gardens of Time
• I Am Playr
• Monstermind
• Resistance 3
• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
• The Sims Social

Online-Multiplayer
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
• Battlefield 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• Dark Souls
• Gears of War 3
• LittleBigPlanet 2

Original Music
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
• Batman: Arkham City
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• L.A. Noire
• The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Performer
• Aaron Stanton (Cole Phelps) – L.A. Noire
• Mark Hamill (The Joker) – Batman: Arkham City
• Nolan North (Nathan Drake) – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
• Stephen Fry (Narrator) – LittleBigPlanet 2
• Stephen Merchant (Wheatley) – Portal 2
• Togo Igawa (Dipolomat, Advisor and Military General) – Total War: SHOGUN 2

Sports/Fitness
• Dance Central 2
• DiRT 3
• F1 2011
• FIFA 2012
• Kinect Sports 2
• Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012

Story
• Batman: Arkham City
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• L.A. Noire
• Portal 2
• The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Strategy
• Dark Souls
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Football Manager 2012
• From Dust
• Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
• Total War: SHOGUN 2

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
• Dreamweaver
• Joust!
• Tick Tock Toys

GAME Award of 2011
(The only award to be voted for by the public)
• Batman: Arkham City
• Battlefield 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• FIFA 2012
• L.A Noire
• Minecraft
• Portal 2
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception