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Fallout 4 wins best game at Baftas | |
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Fallout 4 has won the best game of the year at 2016's British Academy Games Awards. | |
It marks the first time its US-based developer Bethesda has won the prize. It did not win in any other category. | |
British indie titles Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Her Story both won three awards. | |
John Carmack - the creator of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Quake - was also honoured with a Bafta fellowship. | |
He 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." |
Interview archive | Interview archive |
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture won in the game innovation, music and performer categories. | |
It is set in a fictitious Shropshire village in the 1980s and involves the player trying to find out what happened to the inhabitants who have disappeared. | |
The pace of the game is slow and the studio behind it said it wanted the title to have a distinctive English character. | |
"It was really important to us that it wasn't a chisel-jawed American hero going around fighting zombies," The Chinese Room's co-founder Jessica Curry told the BBC. | |
"It's kind of like the Archers," she added, referring to the BBC Radio 4 soap opera. | |
Her Story also won three awards: best debut game; best mobile and handheld title; and game innovation. | |
The game - 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. | 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 distinctive 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. | 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. | 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 title took the the ones to watch prize for the Los Angeles-based developer. |
Rise of eSports | |
Smite won the AMD eSports Audience Award - a new category that is voted for by the public. | |
The battle arena title is unusual for presenting its action from a third-party perspective behind each of the 71 gods the players can choose from. | |
This and other competitive multiplayer titles have become a popular spectator sport. | |
On Wednesday, it was announced that a new eGames international gaming tournament would make its debut in Rio during this summer's Olympic Games. | |
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 |