British Academy Video Games Award for Best Game | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 2004 |
Website | www |
The British Academy Video Games Award for Best Game is an award presented annually at the British Academy Games Awards. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is honouring "the best game of the year, across all genres and platforms". [1] The 1st British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony was held in 2004, with Infinity Ward and Activision's game Call of Duty receiving the award. [2] The award was originally known as Game of the Year – The Year's Best Game for the 2004 ceremony.
Since its inception, the award has been given to eighteen games. As developers, Valve and Naughty Dog have received the most awards in this category, with two wins, while Sony Interactive Entertainment are the most awarded publishers in this category, with five wins. Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development division were nominated on six occasions, more than any other developer; and Sony are the most nominated publisher, with sixteen nominations.
The most recent winner of the award is Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Studios, which received it at the 20th British Academy Games Awards.
In the following table, the years are listed as per BAFTA convention, and generally correspond to the year of game release in the United Kingdom.
Indicates the winner |
Developer | Nominations | Wins |
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Nintendo | 11 | 1 |
EA Vancouver [lower-alpha 1] | 5 | 0 |
Ubisoft Montreal | 5 | 0 |
Naughty Dog | 4 | 2 |
Valve Corporation | 4 | 2 |
BioWare | 3 | 1 |
Infinity Ward | 3 | 1 |
Santa Monica Studio | 4 | 1 |
Harmonix | 3 | 0 |
Rockstar North | 3 | 0 |
Arkane Studios | 2 | 1 |
Bungie | 2 | 1 |
FromSoftware | 2 | 0 |
Remedy Entertainment | 2 | 0 |
Rocksteady Studios | 2 | 1 |
Insomniac Games | 3 | 0 |
IO Interactive | 2 | 0 |
Playdead | 2 | 0 |
Publisher | Nominations | Wins |
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Sony Interactive Entertainment | 17 | 5 |
Electronic Arts | 12 | 1 |
Nintendo | 13 | 1 |
Ubisoft | 7 | 1 |
Activision | 6 | 2 |
Bethesda Softworks | 5 | 2 |
Xbox Game Studios | 5 | 0 |
Valve Corporation | 4 | 2 |
Eidos Interactive | 3 | 1 |
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | 3 | 1 |
Annapurna Interactive | 3 | 2 |
3909 | 2 | 0 |
Devolver Digital | 2 | 0 |
Konami | 2 | 0 |
Panic | 2 | 0 |
Sega | 2 | 0 |
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