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BAFTA has announced the nominees for this year's British Academy Games Awards, and both Control and Death Stranding are leading the charge with a record-breaking 11 nominations each.
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BAFTA has announced the nominees for this year's British Academy Games Awards, and both Control and Death Stranding are leading the charge with a record-breaking 11 nominations each.
ZA/UM's debut title Disco Elysium has been nominated for seven awards including the coveted Best Game prize, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Life is Strange 2, and Outer Wilds have netted five nods apiece.
Indie darlings Knights and Bikes and Untitled Goose Game have also done well, securing nominations in four categories, while preposterously peculiar puzzler Wattam has picked up three nominations.
Other nominees include Luigi's Mansion 2, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Metro Exodus, and A Plague Tale: Innocence, which are in the running the take home the inaugural awards in new categories like Animation and Technical Achievement.
The British Academy is also preparing to recognize the work of voice performances for the first time at its 2020 ceremony, which will see the introduction of the Performer in a Leading Role and Performer in a Supporting Role categories.
You can find a select list of nominees below, or head on over to the official BAFTA website for the full rundown.
Best Game
Control -- Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysium -- ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Luigi's Mansion 3 -- Next Level Games/Nintendo
Outer Wilds -- Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice -- FromSoftware/Activision
Untitled Goose Game -- House House/Panic
Debut Game
Ape Out -- Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch, Bennett Foddy/Devolver Digital
Death Stranding -- Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Disco Elysium -- ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Katana Zero -- Askiisoft/Devolver Digital
Knights and Bikes -- Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents
Manifold Garden -- William Chyr Studio/William Chyr Studio
Evolving Game
Apex Legends -- Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Destiny 2 -- Bungie/Bungie
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers -- Square Enix/Square Enix
Fortnite -- Epic Games/Epic Games
No Man's Sky: Beyond -- Hello Games/Hello Games
Path of Exile -- Grinding Gear Games/Grinding Gear Games
Game Design
Baba Is You -- Hempuli Oy/Hempuli Oy
Control -- Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysium -- ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Outer Wilds -- Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice -- FromSoftware/Activision
Wattam -- Funomena/Annapurna Interactive
Narrative
Control -- Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysium -- ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Life is Strange 2 -- Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix
Outer Wilds -- Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
The Outer Worlds -- Obsidian Entertainment/ Private Division
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order -- Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Performer in a Leading Role
Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in Gears 5
Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in Control
Logan Marshall-Green as David in Telling Lies
Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz in Life is Strange 2
Barry Sloane as Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Norman Reedus as Sam in Death Stranding
Technical Achievement
A Plague Tale: Innocence -- Asobo Studio/ Focus Home Interactive
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare -- Infinity Ward/Activision
Control -- Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding -- Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Metro Exodus -- 4A Games/Deep Silver
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice -- FromSoftware/Activision
EE Mobile Game of the Year (voted for by the public)
Assemble With Care -- Ustwo/Ustwo
Call of Duty: Mobile -- Timi Studios/Activision
Dead Man's Phone -- Electric Noir Studios
Pokemon Go -- The Pokémon Company, Niantic/Nintendo
Tangle Tower -- SFB Games/SFB Games
What the Golf? -- Triband/Triband
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