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| Fallout 4 wins best game at Bafta awards | Fallout 4 wins best game at Bafta awards |
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| Fallout 4 has won the best game of the year at 2016's British Academy Games Awards. | 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. | 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. | British indie titles Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Her Story both won three awards. |
| London-based Rocksteady Studios walked away with best British game for Batman: Arkham Asylum, its third and final game in the series. | London-based Rocksteady Studios walked away with best British game for Batman: Arkham Asylum, its third and final game in the series. |
| John Carmack - the creator of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake - was also honoured with a Bafta fellowship, the academy's highest honour. | John Carmack - the creator of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake - was also honoured with a Bafta fellowship, the academy's highest honour. |
| He now works at Facebook's Oculus virtual reality division. | |
| Mr Carmack told the BBC there was a "very good chance" VR titles would dominate 2017's ceremony. | |
| "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." |
| Roaming the Wasteland | Roaming the Wasteland |
| Fallout 4 is an action-focused role-playing game set in Boston following a nuclear war. It contains hundreds of hours of storyline to explore. | Fallout 4 is an action-focused role-playing game set in Boston following a nuclear war. It contains hundreds of hours of storyline to explore. |
| Like last year's winner - Destiny - it had not won a prize in any of the other categories before taking the top award. | Like last year's winner - Destiny - it had not won a prize in any of the other categories before taking the top award. |
| The studio's European managing director said he had not expected the result, and recalled that although Fallout is now one of gaming's biggest franchises, it too started out small. | The studio's European managing director said he had not expected the result, and recalled that although Fallout is now one of gaming's biggest franchises, it too started out small. |
| "I'm genuinely humbled to receive this on behalf of Todd Howard and Bethesda Game Studios," said Sean Brennan. | "I'm genuinely humbled to receive this on behalf of Todd Howard and Bethesda Game Studios," said Sean Brennan. |
| "You don't have to have the multi-million dollar budgets to make great games - I've seen a huge amount of evidence for that tonight." | "You don't have to have the multi-million dollar budgets to make great games - I've seen a huge amount of evidence for that tonight." |
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| Everybody's Gone to the Rapture had been tipped for the top prize after being nominated 10 times across nine categories. | Everybody's Gone to the Rapture had been tipped for the top prize after being nominated 10 times across nine categories. |
| It won three of them: game innovation, music and performer. | It won three of them: game innovation, music and performer. |
| The game 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 game 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. |
| Its pace is slow and the studio behind it said it wanted the title to have a distinctive English character. | Its pace 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 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. | "It's kind of like the Archers," she added, referring to the BBC Radio 4 soap opera. |
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| Her Story also won three awards: best debut game, best mobile and handheld title, and game innovation. | 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 a video archive of a woman being questioned by police - was developed by Sam Barlow. | The game - in which players must try to solve a murder by sifting through a video archive of a woman being questioned by police - was developed by Sam Barlow. |
| The British 37-year-old said he had deliberately tried to do something "experimental" by 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" by focusing on an actor's performance to see if the idea would appeal. |
| Another award-winner with distinctive gameplay was Sundown. | 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. | |
| Analysis: Adam Rosser, presenter of Radio 5 live's Game On | Analysis: Adam Rosser, presenter of Radio 5 live's Game On |
| Was Fallout 4 taking the best game Bafta the oddest result of the night? | Was Fallout 4 taking the best game Bafta the oddest result of the night? |
| Arguably, but you have to bear in mind that while a panel of judges produced the shortlist, the top prize was determined by the wider Bafta membership taking a vote. | |
| That wasn't the case for the other categories, which were chosen by individual judging panels. | That wasn't the case for the other categories, which were chosen by individual judging panels. |
| The Fallout series has been nominated six times and this is its first win. So, while this post-apocalyptic retro-future holds the attentions of its fans, it seems it didn't grab the "experts" to the same degree. | The Fallout series has been nominated six times and this is its first win. So, while this post-apocalyptic retro-future holds the attentions of its fans, it seems it didn't grab the "experts" to the same degree. |
| Are the games too big? | Are the games too big? |
| If they are that might account for the lack of success the Witcher 3 had this year. Like Fallout that game presented an enormous world; rich in content and incident. | If they are that might account for the lack of success the Witcher 3 had this year. Like Fallout that game presented an enormous world; rich in content and incident. |
| That said neither game pushed the development of narrative nor involved the kinds of innovative approaches that the awards seem to favour. | |
| Smaller games, built by smaller studios are, at least at the moment, much more likely to carry home the laurels. | Smaller games, built by smaller studios are, at least at the moment, much more likely to carry home the laurels. |
| Rise of eSports | Rise of eSports |
| Smite won the AMD eSports Audience Award - a new category that is voted for by the public. | 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. | 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. | 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. | On Wednesday, it was announced that a new eGames international gaming tournament would make its debut in Rio during this summer's Olympic Games. |