Category Archives: BAFTA 2009

It’s over! Here’s who won, courtesy of the Times. Thanks, GoNintendo.

THE BAFTA WINNERS

ACTION & ADVENTURE
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
LittleBigPlanet (PS3)

BEST GAME
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

CASUAL
Boom Blox (Wii)

GAMEPLAY
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

HANDHELD
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS)

MULTIPLAYER
Left 4 Dead (PC, Xbox 360)

ORIGINAL SCORE
Dead Space (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

SPORTS
Race Driver: GRID (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

STORY AND CHARACTER
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

STRATEGY
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (DS, PS3, Xbox 360)

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Spore (Mac/PC)

USE OF AUDIO
Dead Space (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

THE BAFTA FELLOWSHIP
To Nolan Bushnell, creator of Pong and founder of Atari

BAFTA ONES TO WATCH AWARD
Boro-Toro

Here. The press release with all the awards results is being released at 10.30pm GMT.

Looks as though Call of Duty 4′s winning everything. Giant shocks there.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Update: You could watch this instead, if you wanted to drive yourself mad. Thanks, tonynibbles.

Infinity Ward comms boss Rob Bowling’s confirmed he’s going to be in London for the BAFTAs on Tuesday.

Call of Duty 4′s up for eight awards, including Best Game, so it’s not outside the realms of possibility that you might see a lot of Rob on the main stage.

We’ll have all the news from the awards on Tuesday night.

According to this GI report, Atari legend Nolan Bushnell’s to received a BAFTA Fellowship.

The industry legend will be awarded at the British Academy Video Game Awards on March 10 at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

“I am humbled to be selected for this honour from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts,” said Bushnell

“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.”

Congrats, Nolan. Good luck with the movie.

BAFTA just confirmed its next games awards show, to take place at the Park Lane Hilton on March 10 next year.

Sony bigwig and awards chairman Ray Maguire said, “After extensive industry consultation, it was agreed that March would be the best time for the Awards, enabling the industry to enter all the major releases of the year.”

There are 13 awards categories: Action & Adventure, Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Casual, Gameplay, Multiplayer, Original Score, Sports, Strategy, Story & Character, Technical Achievement, Use of Audio and a new Handheld category which includes games for mobiles phones, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS and Nintendo GBA.

There was no ceremony this year, due to the fact that the last one, by and large, was a bit rubbish.

Press release after the link.

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