BAFTA Games Awards 2024 Nominations Announced

11 out of the 12 nominees within the efficiency classes obtain their first BAFTA nomination, together with Sam Lake for Alan Wake 2; Amelia Tyler, Andrew Wincott, Neil Newbon, Samantha Béart (a 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough) and Tracey Wiles for Baldur’s Gate 3; Ralph Ineson for Closing Fantasy 14; Cameron Monaghan and Debra Wilson for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor; and Tony Todd and Yuri Lowenthal for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

Chatting with IGN, Emma Baehr, Government Director of Awards & Content material at BAFTA, and Tara Saunders, Chair of the BAFTA Games Committee, stated the BAFTA Games Awards are actually extra essential than ever, given the mass layoffs and studio closures which have blighted the online game business in current instances.

“Persons are clearly going by means of a extremely troublesome time proper now, and I am certain a few of in the present day’s nominees will probably be amongst them,” Saunders stated. “Creativity will at all times exist and shine by means of and it is BAFTA’s job to showcase and be sure that we make a celebration of that. It is much more essential when issues are laborious truly, that you simply make a celebration of that, you be sure that truly the builders are acknowledged. What it does is also simply showcase to the following future era that truly, no matter troublesome instances, nice content material will get made and showcased and celebrated.”

The complete checklist of the classes and nominees for the BAFTA Games Awards 2023 will be discovered beneath.

ANIMATION

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Entertawinment Plc./Epic Games
• HI-FI RUSH Growth Crew – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks
• HOGWARTS LEGACY Growth Crew – Avalanche Software program/Warner Bros. Games
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 Growth Crew – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure
• STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR Nathan Dunlap, David Nam, Thomas Cannell – Respawn Leisure/Digital Arts
• SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Leisure Plc./Epic Games
• BALDUR’S GATE 3 Growth Crew – Larian Studio/Larian Studio
• COCOON Growth Crew – Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive
• DIABLO IV Growth Crew – Blizzard Leisure/Blizzard Leisure
• FINAL FANTASY XVI Hiroshi Minagawa, Kazuya Takahashi, Naoki Kurihara – SQUARE ENIX – Artistic Enterprise Unit III/SQUARE ENIX
• HI-FI RUSH Growth Crew – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Leisure Plc./Epic Games
• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE III Matt Grimm, Eric Wedemeyer, Robbie Elias – Sledgehammer
• Games/Activision
• HI-FI RUSH Growth Crew – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 Growth Crew – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure
• STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR Growth Crew – Respawn Leisure/Digital Arts

BEST GAME

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Leisure Plc./Epic Games
• BALDUR’S GATE 3 Growth Crew – Larian Studio/Larian Studio
• DAVE THE DIVER Growth Crew – MINTROCKET/MINTROCKET
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 Growth Crew – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure
• SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

BRITISH GAME

• CASSETTE BEASTS Growth Crew – Bytten Studio/Uncooked Fury
• DEAD ISLAND 2 Growth Crew – Dambuster Studios/PLAION
• DISNEY ILLUSION ISLAND Growth Crew – Dlala Studios/Disney
• FOOTBALL MANAGER 2024 Growth Crew – Sports activities Interactive/SEGA Europe
• VIEWFINDER Growth Crew – Unhappy Owl Studios/Thunderful Publishing
• WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: REALMS OF RUIN Growth Crew – Frontier Developments/Frontier Developments

DEBUT GAME

• COCOON Growth Crew – Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive
• DAVE THE DIVER Growth Crew – MINTROCKET/MINTROCKET
• DREDGE Growth Crew – Black Salt Games/Team17 Digital
• STRAY GODS: THE ROLEPLAYING MUSICAL Growth Crew – Summerfall Studios/Humble Games
• VENBA Abhijeeth Swaminathan, Sam Elkana, Shahrin Khan – Visai Games/Visai Games
• VIEWFINDER Growth Crew – Unhappy Owl Studios/Thunderful Publishing

EVOLVING GAME

• CYBERPUNK 2077 Growth Crew – CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT RED
• FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE Growth Crew – Artistic Enterprise Unit III/Sq. Enix
• FORTNITE Growth Crew – Epic Games/Epic Games
• FORZA HORIZON 5 Growth Crew – Playground Games/Xbox Sport Studios
• GENSHIN IMPACT Growth Crew – HoYoverse/HoYoverse
• NO MAN’S SKY Growth Crew – Whats up Games/Whats up Games

FAMILY

• COCOON Growth Crew – Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive
• DAVE THE DIVER Growth Crew – MINTROCKET/MINTROCKET
• DISNEY ILLUSION ISLAND Growth Crew – Dlala Studios/Disney
• HI-FI RUSH Growth Crew – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks
• HOGWARTS LEGACY Growth Crew – Avalanche Software program/Warner Bros. Games
• SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT

• CHANTS OF SENNAAR Julien Moya, Thomas Panuel – Rundisc/Focus Leisure
• GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH Growth Crew – KO_OP/KO_OP
• TCHIA Phil Crifo, Marilou Lopez-Aguilera, Thoanë Thomadra – Awaceb/Kepler Interactive
• TERRA NIL Growth Crew – Free Lives/Devolver Digital
• THIRSTY SUITORS Growth Crew – Outerloop Games/Annapurna Interactive
• VENBA Abhijeeth Swaminathan, Sam Elkana, Shahrin Khan – Visai Games/Visai Games

GAME DESIGN

• COCOON Growth Crew – Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive
• DAVE THE DIVER Growth Crew – MINTROCKET/MINTROCKET
• DREDGE Joel Mason, Alex Ritchie, Nadia Thorn – Black Salt Games/Team17 Digital
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 Growth Crew – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure
• VIEWFINDER Growth Crew – Unhappy Owl Studios/Thunderful Publishing

MULTIPLAYER

• BALDUR’S GATE 3 Growth Crew – Larian Studio/Larian Studio
• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE III Growth Crew – Sledgehammer Games/Activision
• DIABLO IV Growth Crew – Blizzard Leisure/Blizzard Leisure
• FORZA MOTORSPORT Growth Crew – Flip 10 Studios/Xbox Sport Studios
• PARTY ANIMALS Growth Crew – Recreate Games/Supply Expertise
• SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

MUSIC

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Leisure Plc./Epic Games
• ASSASSIN’S CREED MIRAGE Growth Crew – Ubisoft/Ubisoft
• BALDUR’S GATE 3 Borislav Slavov – Larian Studio/Larian Studio
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 John Paesano, Scott Hanau, Keith Leary – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure
• STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR Gordy Haab, Stephen Barton – Respawn Leisure/Digital Arts

NARRATIVE

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Leisure Plc./Epic Games
• BALDUR’S GATE 3 Growth Crew – Larian Studio/Larian Studio
• DREDGE Joel Mason, Alex Ritchie, Nadia Thorne – Black Salt Games/Team17 Digital
• FINAL FANTASY XVI Kazutoyo Maehiro, Michael-Christopher Koji Fox – SQUARE ENIX – Artistic Enterprise Unit III/SQUARE ENIX
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR Stig Asmussen, Aaron Contreras, Dori Arazi – Respawn Leisure/Digital Arts

NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• CHANTS OF SENNAAR Julien Moya, Thomas Panuel – Rundisc/Focus Leisure
• DAVE THE DIVER Growth Crew – MINTROCKET/MINTROCKET
• DREDGE Growth Crew – Black Salt Games/Team17 Digital
• HI-FI RUSH Growth Crew – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks
• JUSANT Growth Crew – DON'T NOD/DON'T NOD
• VIEWFINDER Growth Crew – Unhappy Owl Studios/Thunderful Publishing

PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE

• AMELIA TYLER as Narrator in Baldur’s Gate 3
• CAMERON MONAGHAN as Cal Kestis in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• NADJI JETER as Miles Morales in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• NEIL NEWBON as Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3
• SAMANTHA BÉART as Karlach in Baldur’s Gate 3
• YURI LOWENTHAL as Peter Parker in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• ANDREW WINCOTT as Raphael in Baldur’s Gate 3
• DEBRA WILSON as Cere Junda in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• RALPH INESON as Cidolfus “Cid” Telamon in Closing Fantasy XVI
• SAM LAKE as Alex Casey in Alan Wake 2
• TONY TODD as Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• TRACY WILES as Jaheira in Baldur’s Gate 3

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

• ALAN WAKE 2 Growth Crew – Treatment Leisure Plc./Epic Games
• FINAL FANTASY XVI Ryota Suzuki, Yasuhiro Yanamoto, Kei Honda – SQUARE ENIX – Artistic Enterprise Unit III/SQUARE ENIX
• HORIZON CALL OF THE MOUNTAIN Growth Crew – Guerrilla and Firesprite/Sony Interactive Leisure
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Growth Crew – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 Growth Crew – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure
• STARFIELD Growth Crew – Bethesda Sport Studios/Bethesda Softworks

EE PLAYERS’ CHOICE (voted for by the public)

• BALDUR’S GATE 3 Larian Studio/Larian Studio
• CYBERPUNK 2077 CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT RED
• FORTNITE Epic Games/Epic Games
• THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• LETHAL COMPANY Zeekerss/Zeekerss
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Leisure

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