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Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare captured three awards at last night’s GAME British academy video game awards. The Infinity Ward-developed shooter secured the Gameplay, Story and Character and the GAME Award, which is voted for by the public. Other big winners included Nintendo, which won the Best Game …
Read More »BAFTA can make games mainstream
BAFTA has pledged to make video games a more accepted art form amongst the general public – and help make unfair reportage of the industry a thing of the past. The body has teamed up with UK retail to offer special trade marketing materials for BAFTA-nominated games that, it has …
Read More »Grant opens Dare to be Digital to international entrants
Scottish government 'welcoming motivated and talented people from overseas'
Read More »Havok celebrates domination of BAFTA games shortlist
Popular tools and tech power 27 nominations
Read More »Infinity Ward, Rockstar, Lionhead and Media Molecule lead BAFTA nominations
Call of Duty 4, Fable II, LittleBigPlanet and GTA IV all in line for multiple awards
Read More »Call of Duty 4 leads BAFTA shortlist
BAFTA has this morning unveiled the shortlist for its 2009 video game awards – with Call of Duty 4 leading the shortlist. The Activision Blizzard FPS gets seven nominations. GTA IV gets six nominations, while Fable II and LittleBigPlanet get five each. The winners will be named on March 10th, …
Read More »Dare to be Digital calls for new talent
International game design competition begins search for BAFTA finalists
Read More »Developers get into March’s Game BAFTAs at a reduced rate
Special prices for tickets open to those in the UK's creative industries
Read More »Nolan Bushnell to receive Academy Fellowship
Nolan Bushnell, the man behind Pong who is often credited as the original pioneer of arcade and home video gaming, will receive the Fellowship at this year’s Game British Academy Video Games Awards. The original Atari founder said: I am humbled to be selected for this honour from the British …
Read More »Dare to be Digital invites public submissions
BAFTA-connected design competition expands its format
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