{"id":124594,"date":"2022-04-08T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124594"},"modified":"2022-04-08T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:53:54","slug":"2022-bafta-games-awards-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124594-2022-bafta-games-awards-winners-announced","title":{"rendered":"2022 BAFTA Games Awards winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosted its 18th Video Game Awards show in London yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony was also streamed on Twitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lOezF7i4mB0&amp;ab_channel=BAFTA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Housemarque&#8217;s PS5 exclusive &#8220;Returnal&#8221; took home awards in four categories, namely Best Game, Best Music, Audio Achievement, and Performer in a Leading Role (Jane Perry).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It Takes Two&#8221; won the Multiplayer and Original Property awards, while &#8220;Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart&#8221; won in the Animation and Technical Achievement categories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inscryption&#8221; came out on top in Game Design, and &#8220;Forza Horizon 5&#8221; was named the best British Game.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the complete list of nominees and winners for each category <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafta.org\/games\/awards\/2022-nominations-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Animation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Ratchet &amp; Clank: Rift Apart<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Insomniac Games \/ Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Artistic Achievement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>The Artful Escape<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Beethoven &amp; Dinosaur \/ Annapurna Interactive<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Audio Achievement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Returnal<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Housemarque \/ Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Best Game\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Returnal<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Housemarque \/ Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>British Game<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Forza Horizon 5<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Playground Games \/ Xbox Game Studios<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Debut Game<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>TOEM\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Something We Made<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Evolving Game<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>No Man\u2019s Sky<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Hello Games<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Family<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Chicory: A Colorful Tale<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine \/ Finji<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Game Beyond Entertainment<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Before Your Eyes<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 GoodbyeWorld Games \/ Skybound Games<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Game Design<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Inscryption<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Daniel Mullins Games \/ Devolver Digital<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Multiplayer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>It Takes Two<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Hazelight Studios \/ Electronic\u00a0 Arts<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Returnal<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Housemarque \/ Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Narrative<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Unpacking\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Annie VanderMeer \u2013 Witch Beam \/ Humble Games<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Original Property<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>It Takes Two<\/strong> \u2013 Hazelight Studios \/ Electronic\u00a0 Arts<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Performer in a Leading Role<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jane Perry<\/strong> as Selene Vassos,\u00a0<em>Returnal<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Performer in a Supporting Role<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Kimberly Brock<\/strong> as Hollis Forsythe,\u00a0<em>Psychonauts 2<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Technical Achievement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Ratchet &amp; Clank: Rift Apart<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Insomniac Games \/ Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>EE Game of the Year (Public Vote)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Unpacking\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Witch Beam \/ Humble Games<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124584-top-5-single-player-games-for-console-and-pc\">Top 5 single-player games for console and PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are all the British Academy&#8217;s 2022 Games Awards winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124597,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,11681,4],"tags":[25994,25996,25995],"class_list":["post-124594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-2022-game-awards","tag-british-academy-game-awards","tag-british-academy-of-film-and-television-arts-bafta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124594","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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}