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.

However, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is tipped for the top prize having secured 10 nominations.

The indie title has already won awards for best music and audio achievement.

John Carmack - the creator of Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake - will also be honoured at the ceremony with a Bafta fellowship, the academy's highest honour.

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.

"[The games] won't dominate the market for some time yet, but they will be the exciting things that people are talking about."

Her Story won best debut game.

The unusual title - in which players must sift through an archive of video clips showing a woman being interviewed by the police in order to solve a crime - was developed by Sam Barlow.

The British 37-year-old said he had deliberately tried to do something "experimental" to see if his idea would appeal.

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.

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