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 across nine categories.

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.

"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."

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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:

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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