What are you doing this Friday night? If you need the TV on in the background while getting in some level grinding or if you just need a break from video games (doubtful but even the best of us need a game-free evening), check out the annual UK video game award show from the GAME British Academy!
It will be streamed online at this link at 9pm GMT. The genres and nominees include the following:
Action – Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Batman: Arkham City, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Deux Ex: Human Revolution, Portal 2, and Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception.
Artistic Achievement – Batman: Arkham City, L.A. Noise, LittleBigPlanet2, Rayman Origins, The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
Audio Achievement – Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Dead Space 2, The Nightjar, and Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception.
Best Game – Batman: Arkham City, FIFA 2012, L.A. Noire, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Debut Game – Bastion, Eufloria, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, L.A. Noire, Monstermind, and RIFT.
Design – Batman: Arkham City, L.A. Noise, LittleBigPlanet 2, Portal 2, Super Mario 3D Land, and The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim.
Family – Dance Central 2, Kinect Sports 2, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Mario Kart 7.
Game Innovation – Bastion, Child of Eden, From Dust, L.A. Noire, LittleBigPlanet 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Mobile & Handheld – Dead Space iOS, Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint, Peggle HD, Quarrel, Super Mario 3D Land, and The Nightjar.
Online – Browser – Gardens of Time, I am Playr, Monstermind, Global Resistance, Skylanders: Spyro’s Universe, and The Sims Social.
Online Multiplayer – Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Dark Souls, Gears of War 3, and LittleBigPlanet 2.
Original Music – Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Batman: Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, L.A. Noire, The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim, and Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception.
Performer – Aaron Staton from L.A. Noire, Mark Hamill from Batman: Arkham City, Nolan North from Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception, Stephen Fry from LittleBigPlanet 2, Stephen Merchant from Portal 2, and Todo Igawa from Total War: SHOGUN 2.
Sports/Fitness – Dance Central 2, DiRT 3, F1 2011, FIFA 2012, Kinect Sports 2, and Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012.
Story – Batman: Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, L.A. Noire, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim, and Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception.
Strategy – Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Football Manager 2012, From Dust, Ghost Recon Shadow Wars, and Total War: SHOGUN 2.
BAFTA Ones to Watch Award – Joust, Dreamweaver, and Tick Tock Toys.
GAME Award of 2011 – Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, FIFA 2012, L.A. Noire, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Minecraft, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. (The GAME Award of 2011 will be voted for and chosen by the public, so get in your vote soon!)
How many awards will Skyrim walk away with this time?
The Annual Interactive Achievement Awards named The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim winner of five awards – Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Story, Role-Playing/MMO Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering, and Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction. The award ceremony also saw big wins for Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception and Portal 2. Skyrim, Drake’s Deception, and Portal 2 received acclaim at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards as well. Portal 2 did particularly well, coming away with Best PC Game, Best Multiplayer, Best Performance by a Human Male (for Stephen Merchant as Wheatley), Best Performance by a Human Female (for Ellen McLain as GLaDOS), and Best DLC.
KitGuru says: Since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is so highly regarded and winner of Game of the Year by both Spike’s Video Game Awards and the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, we fully expect the British Academy Video Game Awards to bestow multiple awards (including GAME Award of 2011) to this masterpiece.
