{"id":10113,"date":"2011-02-16T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bafta-video-game-awards-2011-nominees-announced-public-voting-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10113-bafta-video-game-awards-2011-nominees-announced-public-voting-opens","title":{"rendered":"BAFTA Video Game Awards 2011 nominees announced, public voting opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rather prestigious The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. 44 different games have been recognized and together they represent some of the most popular, innovative and cutting-edge creativity in today&rsquo;s gaming industry.<\/p>\n<p>Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood leads with seven BAFTA nominations. Call of Duty: Black Ops and Heavy Rain each garner six nominations. Mass Effect 2 follows with five, LIMBO and Super Mario Galaxy 2 with four.<\/p>\n<p>Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops are both nominated for Action, Artistic Achievement, Multiplayer, Technical Innovation, and Use of Audio.&nbsp; In addition, Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood is nominated for Best Game and Gameplay, and Call of Duty:&nbsp; Black Ops got the nod for Story. Heavy Rain and Mass Effect 2 received nominations for Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Gameplay, Original Music, Story and Heavy Rain got its 6th nod for Technical Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>LIMBO is nominated for Artistic Achievement and Use of Audio. Super Mario Galaxy 2 received nominations for Technical Innovation and Original Music, and both games are also nominated for Best Game and Gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>This year&rsquo;s Awards will also include the publicly-voted category &ndash; the GAME Award of 2010. The shortlist was compiled by a panel of gaming journalists and enthusiasts, and comprises of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dance Central, FIFA 11, Halo: Reach, Heavy Rain, LIMBO, Mass Effect 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Voting is now live at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baftagameaward.com.\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BAFTA Game Award website\">BAFTA Game Award website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards will take place on Wednesday 16 March at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The Awards will be streamed live for the first time at http:\/\/go.ign.com\/baftamicrosite, as well as at www.bafta.org and www.baftagameaward.com.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of BAFTA nominations follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Game<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FIFA 11<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Electronic Arts\/ Electronic Arts Canada<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/> David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson<br \/> Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LIMBO<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Xbox Live Arcade\/Playdead Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mass Effect 2<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Electronic Arts\/BioWare<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/span><br \/> Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka: Nintendo\/Nintendo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Battlefield: Bad Company 2<\/span><br \/>Alan Kertz, Kristoffer Bergqvist: Electronic Arts\/DICE<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BioShock 2<\/span><br \/>Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon: 2K Games\/2K Marin<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/>Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dom Drozdz: Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God of War III<\/span><br \/>Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Steve Caterson: Sony Computer Entertainment\/SCE Santa Monica Studio<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Halo: Reach<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Bungie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Civilization V<\/span><br \/>Jon Shafer, Dorian Newcomb, Brian Wade<br \/>2K Games\/Firaxis<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fallout: New Vegas<\/span><br \/>Josh Sawyer, Frank Kowalkowski, Justin Reynard<br \/>Bethesda Softworks\/Obsidian Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FIFA Manager 11<\/span><br \/>Development Team: EA Sports\/Bright Future<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Napoleon Total War<\/span><br \/>Development Team: SEGA\/Creative Assembly<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Plants vs. Zombies XBLA<\/span><br \/>George Fan, Matt Lee Johnston, Ty Roberts<br \/>PopCap Games\/PopCap Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Blizzard Entertainment\/Blizzard Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">F1 2010<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Codemasters\/Codemasters Birmingham<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FIFA 11<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Electronic Arts\/ Electronic Arts Canada<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Football Manager 2011<\/span><br \/>Development Team: SEGA\/Sports Interactive<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gran Turismo 5<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Sony Computer Entertainment\/Polyphony Digital Inc<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">International Cricket 2010<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Codemasters\/Trickstar Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pro Evolution Soccer 2011<\/span><br \/>Shingo Takatsuka, Naoya Hatsumi, Jon Murphy<br \/>Konami\/Winning Eleven Productions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gameplay<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God of War III<\/span><br \/>Stig Asmussen, Todd Papy, Adam Puhl<br \/>Sony Computer Entertainment\/SCE Santa Monica Studio<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/>David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson<br \/>Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LIMBO<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Xbox Live Arcade\/Playdead Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mass Effect 2<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Electronic Arts\/BioWare<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/span><br \/>Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka<br \/>Nintendo\/Nintendo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multiplayer<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Battlefield: Bad Company 2<\/span><br \/>Alan Kertz, Kristoffer Bergqvist<br \/>Electronic Arts\/DICE<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/>Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dom Drozdz<br \/>Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Halo: Reach<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Bungie<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Electronic Arts\/Criterion Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Blizzard Entertainment\/Blizzard Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artistic Achievement<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/> Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dom Drozdz: Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God of War III<\/span><br \/> Stig Asmussen, Ken Feldman, Cecil Kim: Sony Computer Entertainment\/SCE Santa Monica Studio<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/> David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson: Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LIMBO<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Xbox Live Arcade\/Playdead Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mass Effect 2<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Electronic Arts\/BioWare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alan Wake<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Remedy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BioShock 2<\/span><br \/>Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon<br \/>2K Games\/2K Marin<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/>Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dom Drozdz<br \/>Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fallout: New Vegas<\/span><br \/>John Gonzalez, Eric Fenstermaker, Travis Stout<br \/>Bethesda Softworks\/Obsidian Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/>David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson<br \/>Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mass Effect 2<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Electronic Arts\/BioWare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/> Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/>Adam Rosas, Scott Bean, Dom Drozdz<br \/>Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Halo: Reach<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Bungie<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/>David Cage, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Scott Johnson<br \/>Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kinectimals<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Frontier Developments Ltd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/span><br \/>Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka<br \/>Nintendo\/Nintendo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use of Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alan Wake<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Remedy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Brotherhood<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Ubisoft Entertainment\/Ubisoft Montreal<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Battlefield: Bad Company: 2<\/span><br \/>Stefan Strandberg<br \/>Electronic Arts\/DICE<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/>Development Team<br \/>Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DJ Hero 2<\/span><br \/>Development Team<br \/>Activision Blizzard UK LTD\/Freestylegames<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LIMBO<\/span><br \/>Development Team<br \/>Xbox Live Arcade\/Playdead Games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Music<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alan Wake<\/span><br \/>Petri Alanko<br \/>Microsoft Games Studios\/Remedy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fable III<\/span><br \/>Russell Shaw<br \/>Microsoft Games Studios\/Lionhead Studios<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/>Normand Corbeil<br \/>Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">James Bond 007: Bloodstone<\/span><br \/>Richard Jacques<br \/>Activision Blizzard UK\/ Bizarre Creations<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mass Effect 2<\/span><br \/>Jack Wall<br \/>Electronic Arts\/BioWare<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/span><br \/> Koji Kondo<br \/> Nintendo\/Nintendo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dance Central<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios &amp; MTV Games\/MTV &amp; Harmonix<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kinect Adventures<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Good Science Studio<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kinect Sports<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Rare<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kinectimals<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Microsoft Games Studios\/Frontier Developments Ltd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment\/TT Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Toy Story 3<\/span><br \/>John Blackburn, Jonathan Warner, Jeff Bunker<br \/>Disney Interactive Studios\/Avalanche Software<\/p>\n<p><strong>Handheld<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cut the Rope<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Chillingo\/Zeptolab<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God of War: Ghost of Sparta<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Sony Computer Entertainment\/Ready at Dawn &amp; SCE Santa Monica Studio<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span>Development Team: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment\/TT Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Professor Layton and the Lost Future<\/span><br \/>Akihiro Hino<br \/>Nintendo\/Level 5 Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sonic Colours<\/span><br \/>Development Team: SEGA\/Sonic Team<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Scribblenauts<\/span><br \/>Joseph M Tringali, Marius Fahlbusch, Jeremiah Slaczka<br \/>Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment\/5th Cell<\/p>\n<p><strong>GAME Award of 2010<\/strong> (The only award to be voted for by the public)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/span><br \/>Activision Blizzard UK Ltd\/Treyarch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dance Central<\/span><br \/>Microsoft Games Studios &amp; MTV Games\/MTV &amp; Harmonix<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FIFA 11<\/span><br \/>Electronic Arts\/ Electronic Arts Canada<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Halo Reach<\/span><br \/>Microsoft Games Studios\/Bungie<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heavy Rain<\/span><br \/>Sony Computer Entertainment\/Quantic Dream &amp; XDev Studio Europe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Limbo<\/span><br \/>Xbox Live Arcade\/Playdead Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mass Effect 2<\/span><br \/>Electronic Arts\/BioWare<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit<\/span><br \/>Electronic Arts\/Criterion Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Red Dead Redemption<\/span><br \/>Rockstar Games\/Rockstar San Diego<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/span><br \/>Nintendo\/Nintendo<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAFTA Ones to Watch Award<\/strong> (in association with Dare to Be Digital)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mush<\/span><br \/>Henry Hoffman, Ahmed Zaman, Matthew Dennis, Katherine Killick, Greg O&rsquo;Brien<br \/>(Angry Mango)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sculpty<\/span><br \/>Druhin Mukherjee, Fabien Roussot, James Long, Fraser Littlejohn, Ronan Suess<br \/>(Team Tickle)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Twang<\/span><br \/> Jocce Marklund, Annette Nielsen, Linus Nordgren, Marcus Heder, Thomas Finlay<br \/> (That Game Studio)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Network Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bejeweled Blitz<br \/>Jon David, Heather Hazen, Jason Kapalka<br \/>Popcap Games\/Popcap Games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Farmerama<\/span><br \/>Tobias Reisberger, Jan-Michel Saaksmeier, Marten Schr&ouml;der<br \/>Bigpoint\/Bigpoint<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FIFA Superstars<\/span><br \/>Development Team: EA Sports\/Playfish<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My Empire<\/span><br \/>Development Team: Playfish\/Playfish<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zoo Mumba<\/span><br \/>Tobias Reisberger, Eduard R&ouml;hrich, Jan-Michel Saaksmeier<br \/>Bigpoint GMBH\/Bigpoint GMBH<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zuma Blitz<\/span><br \/>Isaac Aubrey, Jon David, Jason Kapalka<br \/>PopCap Games\/PopCap Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAFTA reveals their nominations for the best games of 2010, public invited to vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}