Press Releases

• Unpacking is crowned the 2022 winner of the EE Game of the Year Award – the only award to be voted for by the public 
• The BAFTA Games Awards were hosted at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London by TV & Radio Presenter, Elle Osili-Wood, and live streamed on BAFTA’s social channels with viewers from around the world tuning in 
• The 2022 nominees were: Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Deathloop, It Takes Two, Metroid Dread, The Forgotten City and Unpacking
• Stephanie Ijoma, Games Consultant and Founder of NNESAGA presented the EE Game of the Year Award to Unpacking

Attendees confirmed for the prestigious BAFTA Games Awards, taking place this Thursday, 7 April in London

Watch upcoming Games Sessions as nominees from Performer in a Leading Role and Best British categories and others take you behind the scenes ahead of BAFTA Games Awards

Six nominated games from upcoming 2022 BAFTA Games Awards to be played by 12 women from Black Twitch UK, who will compete in a series of head-to-head challenges live on Twitch one week ahead of ceremony

View the full list of nominations

BAFTA has announced the nominations in the final two categories of this year’s British Academy Games Awards: Performer in a Leading Role and Performer in a Supporting Role.

• BAFTA Games Awards partners with EE, the UK’s number one network for gaming, to announce the return of the EE Game of the Year Award – the only award to be voted for by the public
• The 2022 nominees are: Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Deathloop, It Takes Two, Metroid Dread, The Forgotten City and Unpacking
• The community of games fans can now vote for the EE Game of the Year Award at: https://ee.co.uk/why-ee/baftagames
• Nominations for all other categories will be announced on Thursday 3rd March with the winners announced at the BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 7th April 2022

• Asa Butterfield, Trixie Mattel, Abubakar Salim, Austin Creed, Hideo Kojima, LEAHviathan, Troy Baker and Austin Wintory were among the presenters
• The Last Of Us Part II won the publicly voted EE Game of The Year Award
• Siobhan Reddy honoured with the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship Award

Hades wins five BAFTAs: Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Game Design, Narrative, and Performer in a Supporting Role for Logan Cunningham

Animal Crossing, Sackboy: A Big Adventure and The Last of Us Part II win two BAFTAs each

Laura Bailey wins Performer in a Leading Role for The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part II wins the EE Game of the Year

Siobhan Reddy will be honoured with the prestigious Fellowship at the BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 25 March 2021, hosted by presenter and journalist Elle Osili-Wood