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A video featuring Irrational’s Ken Levine’s dveloper Q&A filmed March 5 at BAFTA has been posted by 2K Games. In it, Levine talks “From Shodan, to Big Daddy, to Elizabeth: The Evolution of AI Companions” with Simon Parkin. It also features an audience Q&A. Watch it below. BioShock Infinite released March 26 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360

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Sam Clay donned a suit and hit up the BAFTA Awards last night, speaking with a range of award-winning industry figures including thatgamecompany’s Robin Hunicke. Here’s what some of the

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The British Academy Games Awards happened this evening, and Journey took home five awards. That’s not all: we’ll be posting video updates throughout the night, courtesy of Sam Clay.

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Valve founder Gabe Newell is to receive a BAFTA fellowship at its British Academy Games Awards ceremony on March 5th.

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The British Academnt Games Awards have announced its nominees for this year’s award ceremony, and Thatgamecompany’s critically-acclaimed Journey is leading the pack with eight nominations. We’ve got the full list of nominees here.

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A video from the Games Question Time event, held by BAFTA and GamesIndustry International last week, shows presenter Jonathan Ross discussing the evolution of video games culture.
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Eidos life president, Ian Livingstone, feels that mid-tier console studios could soon be a thing of the past as triple-A games grow larger, and consumers become more interested in mobile and broswer-based games.

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BAFTA’s announced it’s to reward the Special Award to Mojang’s Markus ‘Notch’ Persson at the BAFTA Video Game Awards next week.

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BAFTA’s gone up with its annual yearly video games lecture, this time given by BioWare doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk. The pair talk for half an hour before opening up to a half-hour Q&A, chaired by Eurogamer’s Johnny Minkley. The full thing’s over on BAFTA’s site, but there’s a small preview below.

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Speaking to Spong, iOS developer Ste Pickford has claimed the UK BAFTAs are not suited to the task of awarding excellence in the field of development, saying the entry fee alone “seems designed to discourage smaller games from becoming involved.”

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BAFTA’s announced the list of games nominated within this year’s list of games categories in the Children’s BAFTAs. For best game, the choice is between Kirby’s Epic Yarn, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, LittleBigPlanet 2 and Pokemon Black & White. In the Kids Choice award, nominations are between Angry Birds Rio, Cut the Rope, FIFA 11, Just Dance 2, Kinect Sports, Michael Jackson: The Experience, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Professor Layton and the Lost Future, The Sims 3, Wii Party. Size Five Games’ Privates is also up for a nomination in the Learning – Secondary category.

The ceremony happens on November 27.

BAFTA has added new categories to its game awards: Debut Game, Online – Browser, Online – Multiplayer and Performer. The Debut award will be handed to a studio releasing its first game during the same year the award is given, and the performance award will be handed to either voice or motion work. The Online browser award is self explanatory, and Online multiplayer can apply to any game which has online multiplayer capabilities. The BAFTAs take place on Friday, March 16, and nominations open on February 16. Thanks, GI.biz.

BAFTA’s just announced that it’s bringing its video games arm to the US.

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Fresh from his BAFTA Fellowship Award last night, Peter Molyneux spoke with IGN about the honor, and how he would like up and coming talent to receive more focus.

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The British game BAFTAs were awarded tonight, and hosted by Dara O’Briain. Lots of people won. Peter Molyneux accepted his BAFTA Fellowship award. It was all very lovely.

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BAFTA’s just confirmed that Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux is to recieve the BAFTA Fellowship award at this year’s Gaming BAFTAs.

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BAFTA’s announced the full list of nominations for this year’s game awards, with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood leading the charge with seven.

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Shigeru Miyamoto took the stage at the BAFTA awards tonight to accept the Fellowship Award.

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Uncharted 2 walked off with Best Action Game at the BAFTA awards this evening, beating out Assassin’s Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Modern Warefare 2, inFamous, and Left 4 Dead 2.

It also took the awards for Use of Audio, Original Score and Story. It’s up for nine awards tonight.

The running list of winners is below the break and you can watch it live through here.

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You probably can’t remember things too well. Good thing we can, otherwise we wouldn’t have remembered to remember to tell you that the Gaming BAFTAs take place later tonight.

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