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2011 Winners & Nominees

15 February 11

The full list of winners and nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards on Wednesday 16 March 2011.

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Academy Fellowship

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Peter Molyneux

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Action

BAFTA maskAssassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Gaëlec Simard
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb
Electronic Arts/DICE

BioShock 2
Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon
2K Games/2K Marin

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Development Team
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

God of War III
Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Steve Caterson
Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio

Halo: Reach
Marcus Lehton, Joe Tung, Alex Cutting
Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

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Artistic Achievement

BAFTA maskGod of War III
Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Cecil Kim
Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Mohamed Gambouz
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Colin Whitney, Brian Anderson, Dominique Drozdz
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Heavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

LIMBO
Arnt Jensen, Morten Bramsen
Xbox Live Arcade & Playdead/Playdead Games

Mass Effect 2
Development Team
Electronic Arts/BioWare

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Best Game

BAFTA maskMass Effect 2
Development Team
Electronic Arts/BioWare

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Vincent Pontbriand
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

FIFA 11
Kaz Makita, David Rutter, Gavin Paterson
Electronic Arts/ Electronic Arts Canada

Heavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

LIMBO
Arnt Jensen, Dino Patti, Mads Wibroe
Xbox Live Arcade & Playdead/Playdead Games

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo/Nintendo

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Family

BAFTA maskKinect Sports
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Rare

Dance Central
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios & MTV Games/MTV & Harmonix

Kinect Adventures
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Good Science Studio

Kinectimals
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Frontier Developments Ltd

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Development Team
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/TT Games

Toy Story 3
John Blackburn, Jonathan Warner, Jeff Bunker
Disney Interactive Studios/Avalanche Software

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Gameplay

BAFTA maskSuper Mario Galaxy 2
Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo/Nintendo

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Patrick Plourde
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

God of War III
Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Adam Puhl
Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Santa Monica Studio

Heavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

LIMBO
Arnt Jensen, Jeppe Carlsen, Peter Buchardt
Xbox Live Arcade & Playdead/Playdead Games

Mass Effect 2
Development Team
Electronic Arts/BioWare

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Handheld

BAFTA maskCut the Rope
Efim Voinov, Semyon Voinov
Chillingo/Zeptolab

God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/Ready at Dawn & SCE Santa Monica Studio

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Development Team
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/TT Games

Professor Layton and the Lost Future
Akihiro Hino
Nintendo/Level 5 Games

Sonic Colours
Development Team
SEGA/Sonic Team

Super Scribblenauts
Joseph M Tringali, Marius Fahlbusch, Jeremiah Slaczka
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/5th Cell

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Multiplayer

BAFTA maskNeed for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Development Team
Electronic Arts/Criterion Games

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Yann le Guyader
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb
Electronic Arts/DICE

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Mark Gordon, Dan Bunting, David Vonderhaar
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Halo: Reach
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Development Team
Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

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Original Music

BAFTA maskHeavy Rain
Normand Corbeil
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

Alan Wake
Petri Alanko
Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy

Fable III
Russell Shaw
Microsoft Games Studios/Lionhead Studios

James Bond 007: Bloodstone
Richard Jacques
Activision Blizzard UK/ Bizarre Creations

Mass Effect 2
Jack Wall
Electronic Arts/BioWare

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Koji Kondo
Nintendo/Nintendo

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Social Network Game

BAFTA maskMy Empire
Development Team
Playfish/Playfish

Bejeweled Blitz
Jon David, Heather Hazen, Jason Kapalka
Popcap Games/Popcap Games

Farmerama
Tobias Reisberger, Jan-Michel Saaksmeier, Marten Schröder
Bigpoint/Bigpoint

FIFA Superstars
Development Team
EA Sports/Playfish

Zoo Mumba
Tobias Reisberger, Eduard Röhrich, Jan-Michel Saaksmeier
Bigpoint GMBH/Bigpoint GMBH

Zuma Blitz
Isaac Aubrey, Jon David, Jason Kapalka
PopCap Games/PopCap Games

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Sports

BAFTA maskF1 2010
Development Team
Codemasters/Codemasters Birmingham

FIFA 11
Development Team
Electronic Arts/ Electronic Arts Canada

Football Manager 2011
Development Team
SEGA/Sports Interactive

Gran Turismo 5
Development Team
Sony Computer Entertainment/Polyphony Digital Inc

International Cricket 2010
Development Team
Codemasters/Trickstar Games

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Shingo Takatsuka, Naoya Hatsumi, Jon Murphy
Konami/Winning Eleven Productions

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Story

BAFTA maskHeavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

Alan Wake
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy

BioShock 2
Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon
2K Games/2K Marin

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Dave Anthony, Craig Houston
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Fallout: New Vegas
John Gonzalez, Eric Fenstermaker, Travis Stout
Bethesda Softworks/Obsidian Entertainment

Mass Effect 2
Development Team
Electronic Arts/BioWare

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Strategy

BAFTA maskCivilization V
Jon Shafer, Dorian Newcomb, Brian Wade
2K Games/Firaxis

Fallout: New Vegas
Josh Sawyer, Frank Kowalkowski, Justin Reynard
Bethesda Softworks/Obsidian Entertainment

FIFA Manager 11
Development Team
EA Sports/Bright Future

Napoleon Total War
Development Team
SEGA/Creative Assembly

Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
George Fan, Matt Lee Johnston, Ty Roberts
PopCap Games/PopCap Games

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
Development Team
Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

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Technical Innovation

BAFTA maskHeavy Rain
David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Stéphane Girard, Stephane Assadourian
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dominique Drozdz Drozdz
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Halo: Reach
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Kinectimals
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Frontier Developments Ltd

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka
Nintendo/Nintendo

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Use of Audio

BAFTA maskBattlefield: Bad Company: 2
Patrick Bach, David Goldfarb
Electronic Arts/DICE/05.03.10

Alan Wake
Development Team
Microsoft Games Studios/Remedy/14.05.10

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Mathieu Jeanson
Ubisoft Entertainment/Ubisoft Montreal/19.11.10

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Brian Tuey, Chris Cowell
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch/ 09.11.10

DJ Hero 2
Development Team
Activision Blizzard UK LTD/Freestylegames/22.10.10

LIMBO
Martin Stig Andersen
Xbox Live Arcade & Playdead/Playdead Games/21.07.10

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BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

BAFTA maskTwang!
Jocce Marklund, Annette Nielsen, Linus Nordgren, Marcus Heder, Thomas Finlay
(That Game Studio)

Mush
Henry Hoffman, Ahmed Zaman, Matthew Dennis, Katherine Killick, Greg O’Brien
(Angry Mango)

Sculpty
Druhin Mukherjee, Fabien Roussot, James Long, Fraser Littlejohn, Ronan Suess
(Team Tickle)

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GAME Award of 2010

BAFTA maskCall of Duty: Black Ops
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd/Treyarch

Dance Central
Microsoft Games Studios & MTV Games/MTV & Harmonix

FIFA 11
Electronic Arts/ Electronic Arts Canada

Halo Reach
Microsoft Games Studios/Bungie

Heavy Rain
Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream & XDev Studio Europe

Limbo
Xbox Live Arcade & Playdead/Playdead Games

Mass Effect 2
Electronic Arts/BioWare

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Electronic Arts/Criterion Games

Red Dead Redemption
Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Nintendo/Nintendo



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The 2011 Awards in pictures...

Dara returns to host the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards for the third year in a row. After a brief warm up, the ceremony begins: first up is the Action category. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Host: Dara Ó Briain The Hollyoaks actress and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 voice artist teams up with Ben 'The Stig' Collins to present the first award of the evening. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Action presenters: Gemma Atkinson and Ben Collins The historical stealth action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal takes the prize for Action game. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Action winner: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood The newest Blue Peter cohort and CBBC man Barney Harwood steps up to present the Family award. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Family presenter: Barney Harwood The recent XBox title, developed by British Developers Rare, based in Leicestershire, wins the Family award. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Family winner: Kinect Sports Llewellyn, who recently reprised his role as Kryten in classic comedy Red Dwarf, introduces the Technical Innovation award. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie Technical Innovation presenter: Robert Llewellyn Heavy Rain takes Technical innovation - its developer Quantic Dream supplies motion capture services to the film and video game industries. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Technical Innovation winner: Heavy Rain The EastEnders co-stars announce the winners of a new category, Social Network Game. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Social Network Game presenters: Himesh Patel and Charlie G Hawkins The city-building game is playable via Facebook and has a Greco-Roman theme - it takes the inaugural Social Network Game BAFTA. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Social Network Game winner: My Empire Watchdog’s Matt Allwright and games designer Jon Hare (Sensible Soccer) present the award for Use of Audio. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Use of Audio presenters: Matt Allwright and Jon Hare Since its release, almost 6 million copies of Bad Company 2 have been sold worldwide. Its producers accept the award for Use of Audio. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Use of Audio winner: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 The England rugby union star announces the Handheld award winner. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Handheld presenter: Delon Armitage Cut the Rope wins Handheld. Nine days after its release, the game had been purchased one million times. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Handheld winner: Cut the Rope The Zone presenter and GAME Group UK’s managing director reveal who the public have voted as the best game of 2010. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) GAME award presenters: Michael Underwood and Martyn Gibbs The latest instalment in the Call of Duty series wins the public vote. It earned $650 million in its first five days of sale - with $360 million on launch day alone. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) GAME award winner: Call of Duty: Black Ops The award-winning games composer and sound designer announces the winner of Original Music. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Original Music presenter: Joris de Man A visibly moved Normand Corbeil, the composer of Heavy Rain's haunting score, accepts the award for Original Soundtrack. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Original Music winner: Heavy Rain The comedian and MSN's games columnist presents the BAFTA for Strategy. (Pic: BAFTA/Brian Ritchie) Strategy presenter: Iain Lee

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