13th British Academy Games Awards

13th British Academy Games Awards
Date	6 April 2017
Location	Tobacco Dock
Hosted by	Danny Wallace
Best Game	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Most awards	Inside (4)
Most nominations	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (8)
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The 13th British Academy Video Game Awards awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, is an award ceremony that was held on 6 April 2017 at Tobacco Dock. The ceremony honoured achievement in video gaming in 2016 and was hosted by Danny Wallace.

Nominees[]

The nominees for the 13th British Academy Video Games Awards were announced on 9 March 2017.^[1] Uncharted 4: A Thief's End received the most nominations with eight in total; Inside received the second most with seven nominations, followed by Firewatch with six and Overcooked, Overwatch, The Witness and The Last Guardian with four each.^[2]^[3]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 6 April 2017.^[1]

Awards[]

Artistic Achievement Inside – Playdead/Playdead Abzû – Giant Squid/505 Games Dishonored 2 – Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks The Last Guardian – Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Unravel – Coldwood Interactive/Electronic Arts	Game Innovation That Dragon, Cancer – Numinous Games/Numinous Games Batman: Arkham VR – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Firewatch – Campo Santo/Panic Pokémon Go – Niantic/Niantic Unseen Diplomacy – Triangular Pixels/Triangular Pixels The Witness – Thekla, Inc./Thekla, Inc.
Audio Achievement The Last Guardian – Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Battlefield 1 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts Doom – id Software/Bethesda Softworks Inside – Playdead/Playdead Rez Infinite – United Game Artists/Enhance Games Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment	Mobile Pokémon Go – Niantic/Niantic The Banner Saga 2 – Stoic/Versus Evil Dawn of Titans – NaturalMotion/Zynga Deus Ex Go – Square Enix Montreal/Square Enix Pokémon Sun and Moon – Game Freak/The Pokémon Company Reigns – Nerial/Devolver Digital
Best Game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Firewatch – Campo Santo/Panic Inside – Playdead/Playdead Overwatch – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment Stardew Valley – ConcernedApe/Chucklefish Titanfall 2 – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts	Multiplayer Overwatch – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment Battlefield 1 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts Forza Horizon 3 – Playground Games/Microsoft Studios Overcooked – Ghost Town Games/Team17 Titanfall 2 – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts Tom Clancy's The Division – Ubisoft Massive/Ubisoft
British Game Overcooked – Ghost Town Games/Team17 Batman: Arkham VR – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Forza Horizon 3 – Playground Games/Microsoft Studios No Man's Sky – Hello Games/Hello Games Planet Coaster – Frontier Developments/Frontier Developments Virginia – Variable State/505 Games	Music Virginia – Lyndon Holland Abzû – Austin Wintory Doom – Mick Gordon, Chris Hite, Chad Mossholder Inside – Martin Stig Andersen, SØS Gunver Ryberg The Last Guardian – Takeshi Furukawa Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Henry Jackman, Jonathan Mayer, Scott Hanau
Debut Game Firewatch – Campo Santo/Panic Overcooked – Ghost Town Games/Team17 Oxenfree – Night School Studio/Night School Studio That Dragon, Cancer – Numinous Games/Numinous Games Virginia – Variable State/505 Games The Witness – Thekla, Inc./Thekla, Inc.	Narrative Inside – Playdead/Playdead Dishonored 2 – Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks Firewatch – Campo Santo/Panic Mafia III – Hangar 13/2K Games Oxenfree – Night School Studio/Night School Studio Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Evolving Game Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Destiny: Rise of Iron – Bungie/Activision Elite Dangerous: Horizons – Frontier Developments/Frontier Developments Eve Online – CCP Games/CCP Games Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Square Enix/Square Enix Hitman – IO Interactive/Square Enix	Original Property Inside – Playdead/Playdead Firewatch – Campo Santo/Panic The Last Guardian – Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Overwatch – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment Unravel – Coldwood Interactive/Electronic Arts The Witness – Thekla, Inc./Thekla, Inc.
Family Overcooked – Ghost Town Games/Team17 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Mike Taylor, Jamie Eden and James Norton, TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment The Playroom VR – Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Pokémon Go – Niantic/Niantic Ratchet and Clank – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Toca Hair Salon 3 – Toca Boca/Toca	Performer *Cissy Jones – Firewatch* as Delilah** Alex Hernandez – Mafia III as Lincoln Clay Emily Rose – Uncharted 4: A Thief's End as Elena Fisher Navid Negahban – 1979 Revolution: Black Friday as Hajj Agha Nolan North – Uncharted 4: A Thief's End as Nathan Drake Troy Baker – Uncharted 4: A Thief's End as Sam Drake
Game Design Inside - Playdead/Playdead Battlefield 1 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts Dishonored 2 - Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks Overwatch - Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment Titanfall 2 - Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts The Witness - Thekla, Inc./Thekla, Inc.

BAFTA Special Award[]

Brenda Romero

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award[]

Among the Stones - Lukasz Gomula, Alberto Taiuti, James Wood, Roberton Macken, Kevin McKenna, Rory Sweeney
Pentagrab - Andrew Fullarton, Thomas Slade, Nick Kondylis, Cari Watterton, Dale Smith
Rebound - Kieran Gallagher, Isaac Pringle, Mark Tempini, Andrew Graham, Alexander MacDiarmid, Vladislav Veselinov, Craig Russell, Alexandra Donaldson

AMD eSports Audience Award[]

Clash Royale
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
League of Legends
Overwatch
Street Fighter V

Games with multiple nominations and wins[]

Nominations[]

Nominations	Game
8	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
7	Inside
6	Firewatch
5	Overwatch
4	Overcooked
	The Last Guardian
	The Witness
3	Battlefield 1
	Dishonored 2
	Pokémon Go
	Titanfall 2
	Virginia
2	Abzû
	Batman: Arkham VR
	Doom
	Forza Horizon 3
	Mafia III
	Oxenfree
	That Dragon, Cancer
	Unravel

Wins[]

Wins	Game
4	Inside
2	Firewatch
2	Overcooked

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Erica Webber, Jordan (9 March 2017). "Bafta games awards 2017: Inside and Uncharted 4 lead the way". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2017. {{cite web}}:
↑ "NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED: BRITISH ACADEMY GAMES AWARDS" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017. {{cite web}}:
↑ "Nominations List for the British Academy Games Awards in 2017 (Plain Text)". www.bafta.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12. {{cite web}}:

External links[]

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[Guardian-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Erica Webber, Jordan (9 March 2017). "Bafta games awards 2017: Inside and Uncharted 4 lead the way". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2017. {{cite web}}:

[2] "NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED: BRITISH ACADEMY GAMES AWARDS" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017. {{cite web}}:

[3] "Nominations List for the British Academy Games Awards in 2017 (Plain Text)". www.bafta.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12. {{cite web}}:

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