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Destiny Takes Best Game at BAFTAs + Winners List

by on March 13, 2015
 

Bungie’s Destiny was the surprise winner at the British Acadamy Game Awards last night, taking home the award for Best Game and beating out heavyweight competition such as Alien: Isolation, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mario Kart 8.

The ceremony which celebrates the best gaming achievements of the past year was held at Tobacco Docks in London, hosted by Rufus Hound with celebrity presenters including Dynamo, Alex Brooker, Ian Livingstone OBE and Chet Faliszek. The night’s big winner was Monument Valley, taking home two awards. Alien: Isolation was the most nominated game, up for six awards but only managed to win one. A full list of winners can be found below.

 

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
ASSASSIN’S CREED UNITY Mohamed Gambouz, Patrick Limoges, Jean-Sebastien Guay – Ubisoft/Ubisoft
FAR CRY 4 Jean-Alexis Doyon, David Wilkinson, Scott Mitchell– Ubisoft/Ubisoft
HOHOKUM Development Team – Honeyslug/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
*LUMINO CITY Development Team – State of Play Games/State of Play Games 
MONUMENT VALLEY Development Team – ustwo Games/ustwo Studio
VALIANT HEARTS Paul Tumelaire, Ghislain Avrillon, Laurent Labouille – Ubisoft/Ubisoft

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
*ALIEN: ISOLATION Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
THE BANNER SAGA Austin Wintory, Michael Theiler, Peret Von Sturmer – Stoic/Versus Evil
CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE Development Team – Sledgehammer Games/Activision
DISNEY FANTASIA: MUSIC EVOLVED Development Team – Disney Interactive Studios and Harmonix Music Systems/Disney Interactive Studios
MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
THE SAILOR’S DREAM Development Team – Simogo/Simogo

BEST GAME
ALIEN: ISOLATION Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
*DESTINY Development Team – Bungie/Activision
DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION Development Team – BioWare/Electronic Arts
MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR Development Team – Monolith Productions/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
MONUMENT VALLEY Development Team – ustwo Games/ustwo Studio

BRITISH GAME
80 DAYS Joseph Humfrey, Jon Ingold, Meg Jayanth – Inkle/Inkle, Profile Books
ALIEN: ISOLATION Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
FORZA HORIZON 2 Development Team – Playground Games/Microsoft Studios
GEOMETRY WARS 3: DIMENSIONS Development Team – Lucid Games/Sierra
LUMINO CITY Development Team – State of Play Games/State of Play Games
*MONUMENT VALLEY Development Team – ustwo Games/ustwo Studio

DEBUT GAME
THE BANNER SAGA John Watson, Alex Thomas, Arnie Jorgensen – Stoic/Versus Evil
COUNTERSPY Development Team – Dynamighty/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
HITMAN GO Daniel Lutz – Square Enix Montréal/Square Enix
*NEVER ALONE (KISIMA INGITCHUNA) Development Team – Upper One Games/E-Line Media
SHOVEL KNIGHT Development Team – Yacht Club Games/Yacht Club Games
THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER Adrian Chmielarz, Andrzej Poznanski, Michal Kosieradzki – The Astronauts/The Astronauts, Nordic Games

FAMILY
THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME Jon Burton, Mike Taylor, Phill Ring – TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
LITTLEBIGPLANET 3 Pete Smith, Paul Porter, Darius Sadeghian – Sumo Digital and XDev Studio Europe/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
*MINECRAFT: CONSOLE EDITIONS Development Team – Mojang/4J Studios/Microsoft Studios
SKYLANDERS TRAP TEAM Development Team – Toys for Bob, Vicarious Visions/Activision
TWELVE A DOZEN Development Team – Bossa Studios/Bossa Studios

GAME DESIGN
ALIEN: ISOLATION Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
DESTINY Development Team – Bungie/Activision
FAR CRY 4 Patrik Methe, Hugo Desmeules, Andrea Zanini – Ubisoft/Ubisoft
HEARTHSTONE: HEROES OF WARCRAFT Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
*MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR Development Team – Monolith Productions/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
THREES Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlwend, Jimmy Hinson – Sirvo/Sirvo

GAME INNOVATION
80 DAYS Joseph Humfrey, Jon Ingold – Inkle/Inkle, Profile Books
ALIEN: ISOLATION Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
LUMINO CITY Development Team – State of Play Games/State of Play Games
MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR Development Team – Monolith Productions/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
TITANFALL Steve Fukuda, Richard Baker, Vince Zampella – Respawn/Electronic Arts
*THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER Development Team – The Astronauts/The Astronauts, Nordic Games

MOBILE &; HANDHELD
80 DAYS Joseph Humfrey, Jon Ingold, Meg Jayanth – Inkle/Inkle, Profile Books
HEARTHSTONE: HEROES OF WARCRAFT Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
HITMAN GO Daniel Lutz – Square Enix Montréal/Square Enix
*MONUMENT VALLEY Development Team – ustwo Games/ustwo Studio
THREES Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlwend, Jimmy Hinson – Sirvo/Sirvo
THE WALKING DEAD: SEASON 2 Development Team – Telltale Games/Telltale Games

MULTIPLAYER
CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE Development Team – Sledgehammer Games/Activision
DESTINY Development Team – Bungie/Activision
*HEARTHSTONE: HEROES OF WARCRAFT Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
MINECRAFT: CONSOLE EDITIONS Development Team – Mojang/4J Studios/Microsoft Studios
TITANFALL Steve Fukuda, Richard Baker, Vince Zampella – Respawn/Electronic Arts

MUSIC
ALIEN: ISOLATION Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
THE BANNER SAGA Austin Wintory – Stoic/Versus Evil
DISNEY FANTASIA: MUSIC EVOLVED Development Team – Disney Interactive Studios and Harmonix Music Systems/Disney Interactive Studios
*FAR CRY 4 Cliff Martinez, Tony Gronick, Jerome Angelot – Ubisoft/Ubisoft
MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR Garry Schyman, Nathan Griggs – Monolith Productions/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
THE SAILOR’S DREAM Development Team – Simogo/Simogo

ORIGINAL PROPERTY
KALIMBA Development Team – Press Play/Microsoft Studios
MONUMENT VALLEY Development Team – Ustwo Games/Ustwo Studio
SUNSET OVERDRIVE Development Team – Insomniac/Microsoft Studios
TITANFALL Steve Fukuda, Richard Baker, Vince Zampella – Respawn/Electronic Arts
*VALIANT HEARTS Yoan Fanise, Paul Tumelaire, Simon Choquet – Ubisoft/Ubisoft
THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER Adrian Chmielarz, Andrzei Poznanski, Michel Kosieradzki – The Astronauts/The Astronauts, Nordic Games

PERFORMER
ADAM HARRINGTON Bigby Wolf in The Wolf Among Us
*ASHLEY JOHNSON Ellie in The Last of Us: Left Behind
KEVIN SPACEY Jonathan Irons in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
LOGAN CUNNINGHAM Transistor in Transistor
MELISSA HUTCHISON Clementine in The Walking Dead: Season 2
TROY BAKER Pagan Min in Far Cry 4

PERSISTENT GAME
DESTINY Development Team – Bungie/Activision
EVE ONLINE – PHOEBE Development Team – CCP Games/CCP Games
*LEAGUE OF LEGENDS Development Team – Riot Games/Riot Games
RUNESCAPE Development Team – Jagex/Jagex
WORLD OF TANKS Development Team – Wargaming.net/Wargaming.net
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: WARLORDS OF DRAENOR Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

SPORT
FIFA 15 Development Team – EA Sports/Electronic Arts
FOOTBALL MANAGER 2015 Development Team – Sports Interactive/SEGA
FORZA HORIZON 2 Development Team – Playground Games/Microsoft Studios
MADDEN NFL 15 Development Team – EA Sports/Electronic Arts
*OLLIOLLI John Ribbins, Simon Bennett, Tom Hegarty – Roll7/Roll7
TRIALS FUSION Kim Lahti, Antti Ilvessuo, Karri Kiviluoma – Ubisoft/Ubisoft

STORY 
80 DAYS Joseph Humfrey, Jon Ingold, Meg Jayanth – Inkle/Inkle, Profile Books
BROKEN AGE Tim Schafer – Double Fine Productions/Double Fine Productions
FAR CRY 4 Mark Thompson, Lucien Soulban, Li Kuo – Ubisoft/Ubisoft
*THE LAST OF US: LEFT BEHIND Neil Druckmann – Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
NEVER ALONE (KISIMA INGITCHUNA) Development Team – Upper One Games/E-Line Media
THE WOLF AMONG US Development Team – Telltale Games/Telltale Games

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
CHAMBARA Kevin Wong, Catherine Fox, Alec Faulkner, Esteban Fajardo, Thomas Hoffmann – Overly Kinetic
SAGITTARIUS Vivek Deshpande, Anand Navaneetha Raja, Ashik Sharief, Shashank Chavan, Karthireyan Dhandapani – Too Mainstream
DON’T WALK: RUN Niall Taylor, Joseph Grainger, Oliver Reynolds – Duffy, Sean Barron, Alan Taylor – Torque