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Bafta awards: Video games battle for glory | Bafta awards: Video games battle for glory |
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Batman: Arkham Knight has won best British game at 2016's British Academy Games Award. | Batman: Arkham Knight has won best British game at 2016's British Academy Games Award. |
However, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is tipped for the top prize having secured 10 nominations across nine categories. | |
The indie title has already won awards for best music and audio achievement. | The indie title has already won awards for best music and audio achievement. |
John Carmack - the creator of Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake - is also being honoured at the ceremony with a Bafta fellowship. | |
Mr Carmack now works at Facebook's Oculus virtual reality division. He told the BBC there was a "very good chance" VR titles would dominate 2017's awards. | Mr Carmack now works at Facebook's Oculus virtual reality division. He told the BBC there was a "very good chance" VR titles would dominate 2017's awards. |
"Award shows like this will tend to be kind of bellwethers about where things are going," he explained. | "Award shows like this will tend to be kind of bellwethers about where things are going," he explained. |
"[The games] won't dominate the market for some time yet, but they will be the exciting things that people are talking about." | "[The games] won't dominate the market for some time yet, but they will be the exciting things that people are talking about." |
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Her Story won best debut game and game innovation. | |
The unusual title - in which players must try to solve a murder by sifting through an archive of video clips showing a woman being questioned by the police - was developed by Sam Barlow. | |
The British 37-year-old said he had deliberately tried to do something "experimental" focusing on an actor's performance to see if the idea would appeal. | |
Another award-winner with unusual gameplay was Sundown. | |
Its developer - Mild Beast Games - has created a top-down stealth title in which characters are invisible until they are revealed by a light source. | |
Guns in the game shoot bursts of light rather than bullets. | |
The title took the the ones to watch prize for the Los Angeles-based developer. | |
The titles nominated for best game are: | The titles nominated for best game are: |
Last year's best game winner was Bungie's Destiny despite the fact it did not win any of the other categories it was nominated in. | Last year's best game winner was Bungie's Destiny despite the fact it did not win any of the other categories it was nominated in. |
More to follow | More to follow |