12th British Academy Games Awards

12th British Academy Video Games Awards
Date	7 April 2016
Location	Tobacco Dock, London
Hosted by	Dara Ó Briain
Best Game	Fallout 4
Most awards	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Her Story, Rocket League (3)
Most nominations	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (10)

The 12th British Academy Video Game Awards awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, is an award ceremony that was held on 7 April 2016 at Tobacco Dock in London. The ceremony honoured achievement in video gaming in 2015 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 12th British Academy Video Games Awards were announced on 10 March 2016.^[1]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 7 April 2016.^[1]

Awards

Winners are shown first in bold.^[2]

Artistic Achievement Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt	Mobile & Handheld Her Story – Sam Barlow Alphabear – Spry Fox Fallout Shelter – Bethesda Game Studios and Behaviour Interactive/Bethesda Softworks Lara Croft Go – Square Enix Montréal/Square Enix Prune – Joel McDonald and Kyle Preston The Room Three – Fireproof Games/Fireproof Studios
Audio Achievement Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment Star Wars Battlefront – EA DICE/Electronic Arts The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt	Multiplayer Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie/Activision Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Matt Hammill, Jamie Tucker, Adam Winkels Splatoon – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft World of Warships – Lesta Studio/Wargaming
Best Game Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt	Music Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Halo 5: Guardians – Kazuma Jinnouchi, Nobuko Toda and Peter Cobbin Ori and the Blind Forest – Gareth Coker
British Game Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story – Sam Barlow Prison Architect – Introversion Software/Introversion Software Tearaway Unfolded – Tarsier Studios and Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment	Original Property Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story – Sam Barlow Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios Splatoon – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
Debut Game Her Story – Sam Barlow Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – Ben Kane, Brian Fetter and Allen Pestaluky Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Matt Hammill, Jamie Tucker, Adam Winkels Mini Metro – Dinosaur Polo Club/Dinosaur Polo Club and Playism Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios Prune – Joel McDonald and Kyle Preston	Performer Merle Dandridge – Everybody's Gone to the Rapture as Kate Collins Ashly Burch – Life Is Strange as Chloe Price Doug Cockle – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as Geralt of Rivia Oliver Dimsdale – Everybody's Gone to the Rapture as Stephen Appleton Mark Hamill – Batman: Arkham Knight as The Joker Masasa Moyo – Broken Age: Act 2 as Vella
Family Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Disney Infinity 3.0 – John Blackburn, John Vignocchi and Bob Lowe FIFA 16 – EA Canada/EA Sports Guitar Hero Live – FreeStyleGames/Activision Lego Dimensions – John Burton, James McLoughlin and Nick Ricks Super Mario Maker – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo	Persistent Game Prison Architect – Introversion Software/Introversion Software Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie/Activision Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Square Enix/Square Enix Guitar Hero Live – FreeStyleGames/Activision Lego Dimensions – John Burton, James McLoughlin and Dave Dootson The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt
Game Design Bloodborne – FromSoftware/Sony Computer Entertainment Grow Home – Ubisoft Reflections/Ubisoft Her Story – Sam Barlow Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Matt Hammill, Jamie Tucker, Adam Winkels Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt	Sport Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Dirt Rally – Codemasters/Codemasters FIFA 16 – EA Canada/EA Sports Football Manager 2016 – Sports Interactive/Sega Forza Motorsport 6 – Ryan Cooper, Bill Giese and Dave Gierok Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – PES Productions/Konami
Game Innovation Her Story – Sam Barlow Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment Splatoon – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment	Story Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story – Sam Barlow Undertale – Toby Fox Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt

BAFTA Fellowship Award

• John Carmack^[3]

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award

• Sundown – Steven Li, Aaron Hong, Mclean Goldwhite, Theodore Park, Kenny Regan, Cynthia Cantrell, Gracie May and Jade Kim^[2]

AMD eSports Audience Award

• Smite^[2]

Games with multiple nominations and wins

Nominations Nominations Game 10 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 7 Her Story The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5 Batman: Arkham Knight Life Is Strange Rocket League 4 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Ori and the Blind Forest Until Dawn 3 Assassin's Creed Syndicate Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Splatoon 2 Destiny: The Taken King Fallout 4 FIFA 16 Guitar Hero Live Lego Dimensions Prison Architect Prune

Wins Awards Game 3 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Her Story Rocket League

References

1. Skrebels, Joe (10 March 2016). "BAFTA Games Awards 2016 Nominees Revealed". IGN. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
2. "Games in 2015". BAFTA Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
3. Makuch, Eddie (24 March 2016). "Doom, Quake Programmer John Carmack Getting BAFTA High Honor". GameSpot. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

External links

• 12th BAFTA Video Games Awards page