Last week, the Ballroom at Mayfair’s Hilton Hotel was the venue for the Video Game BAFTA’s sponserd by GAME. There was an atmosphere filled with excitement and anticipation. Dara O’Brien presented the evening and was joined by celebrities such as the legendary Robert Llewellyn, Jason Bradbury, the boys from Blue, Danny Wallace to name but a few.
My personal favourite of 2010, ‘Heavy Rain‘ walked away with 3 awards – Best Technical Innovation, Best Original Music and Best Story. Despite winning three awards of the evening, they were just pipped to the post for Best Game by ‘Mass Effect 2‘. Unsurprisingly, the Best Family Game went to ‘Kinect Sports‘. Kinect, was certainly one of the big winners in 2010 and was certainly a well deserved winner of this category.
The Fellowship Award went to the game designing legend, Peter Molyneux OBE. As one of the most highly regarded and best-known names in the industry, he co-founded Bullfrog Productions back in 1987. He’s the man behind titles such as the Fable series, Populous, Dungeon Keeper and Theme Park and thise games combined have sold around 15 million worldwide
Video Games Awards Winners in 2011
Action
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Gaëlec Simard, Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal
Artistic Achievement
God of War III
Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Cecil Kim, Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio
Best Game
Mass Effect 2
Development Team, Electronic Arts/BioWare
Family
Kinect Sports
Development Team, Microsoft Games Studios/Rare
Gameplay
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka – Nintendo/Nintendo
Handheld
Cut the Rope
Efim Voinov, Semyon Voinov – Chillingo/Zeptolab
Multiplayer
BAFTA maskNeed for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Development Team, Electronic Arts/Criterion Games
Original Music
Heavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson – Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe
Social Network Game
My Empire
Development Team, Playfish/Playfish
Sports
F1 2010
Development Team, Codemasters/Codemasters Birmingham
Story
Heavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson, Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe
Strategy
Civilization V
Jon Shafer, Dorian Newcomb, Brian Wade – 2K Games/Firaxis
Technical Innovation
Heavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson – Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe
Use of Audio
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb – Electronic Arts/DICE
BAFTA Ones To Watch Award
Twang!
Jocce Marklund, Annette Nielsen, Linus Nordgren, Marcus Heder, Thomas Finlay (That Game Studio)
The GAME Award 2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Development Team, Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch