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BAFTA has announced the nominations for the 2021 British Academy Games Awards.

• BAFTA Games Awards partners with EE, the UK’s number one network for gaming, to unlock the new EE Game of the Year Award – the only category to be voted for by the public
• The 2021 nominees are: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Call of Duty: Warzone, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us 2 and VALORANT
• Global community of games fans can now vote for the EE Game of the Year Award at ee.co.uk/BAFTAGames
• Nominations for all other categories will be announced Tuesday 2nd March 2021, with the winners announced at the BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 25th March 2021

• EE partners with British Academy Games Awards for the third year and introduces an all-new publicly voted category to the Awards: the new EE Game of the Year Award
• The UK’s number one network for gaming will give fans at home the opportunity to have their say and vote for their favourite game 
• The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 23rd February 2021, when voting will open to the public, with the award announced at the virtual ceremony on 25th March 2021
• Nominations for all other categories at the BAFTA Games Awards will be announced Tuesday 2nd March 

• Entry opens with pilot for BFI Diversity Standards & bullying, harassment and racism guidance in the British Game category 
• Awards eligibility is not affected in this pilot year 
• Entrants in the British Game category will be asked to provide information on their companies’ production practices - including policy and procedure on bullying, harassment and racism in the workplace - as part of pilot
• BAFTA Games Awards to take place in March 2021, date tbc

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