The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (or BAFTA to its friends) has announced the nominees for its British Academy Games Awards. Feast your peepers on the following.
The dreamy indie effort Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has scooped up a massive ten chances to win, while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is in with a shot for six awards. Check out all the categories and their nominations below.
Artistic Achievement
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate — Ubisoft
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Audio Achievement
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Star Wars Battlefront
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Best Game
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Fallout 4
- Life is Strange
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Rocket League
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
British Game
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Her Story
- Prison Architect
- Tearaway Unfolded
- Until Dawn
Debut Game
- Her Story
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Mini Metro
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Prune
Family
- Disney Infinity 3.0: Play Without Limit
- FIFA 16
- Guitar Hero: Live
- Lego Dimensions
- Super Mario Maker
- Rocket League
Game Design
- Bloodborne
- Grow Home
- Her Story
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Rocket League
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Game Innovation
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Her Story
- Life is Strange
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Splatoon
- Until Dawn
Mobile & Handheld
- Alphabear
- Fallout Shelter
- Her Story
- Lara Croft Go
- Prune
- The Room Three
Multiplayer
- Destiny: The Taken King
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Rocket League
- Splatoon
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- World of Warships
Story
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
- Her Story
- Life is Strange
- Undertale
- Until Dawn
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The annual awards show will take place on April 7 at Tobacco Dock, London, hosted by comedian and gamer Dara O’Briain. It’ll also be streamed on Twitch so that you can watch from the comfort of your own home.
Ewan Moore is a journalist at UNILAD Gaming who still quite hasn’t gotten out of his mid 00’s emo phase. After graduating from the University of Portsmouth in 2015 with a BA in Journalism & Media Studies (thanks for asking), he went on to do some freelance words for various places, including Kotaku, Den of Geek, and TheSixthAxis, before landing a full time gig at UNILAD in 2016.