Call of Duty 4 Wins Big at BAFTAs
The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards (BAFTAs) are over and the biggest winner was Call of Duty 4. The awards took place at the London Hilton on Park Lane, and were hosted by games aficionado Dara O’Briain. At this gala event some of last year’s biggest games were honored in various categories, while Atari founder Nolan Bushnell was given the BAFTA FELLOWSHIP Award for his contributions to the industry over his long and interesting career.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the biggest winner of this year’s BAFTA video game awards, picking up top honors in the Action & Adventure, Gameplay, Story and Character categories - along with the only category voted on by players - the GAME Award of 2008. Dead Space also did pretty well, landing awards for Original Score and Use of Audio, while Super Mario Galaxy won the Best Game award this year.
A full list of the categories, nominees and this year’s winners can be found after the break (winners highlighted in bold).
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Rumor: Fable III at GDC
Will Peter Molyneux be revealing Fable III or some other secret game project at the Game Developers Conference later this month? Perhaps he’s being cheeky, but Molyneux said at the BAFTA awards ceremony that those curious about what Lionhead is currently working on will want to pay close attention to what he does or says at GDC.
“Naming a particular game before it’s out is a difficult thing. And I’ll tell you why, because in two weeks I’m about to fly out to America for the Gamers’ Development Conference and that’s the time when you start to see what’s really coming up,” said Molyneux to the BBC.
British radio and television personality Jonathan Ross also threw some gasoline on the fire by saying that he was doing some voice work for Fable III via twitter.
Maybe this will be like a fake out make out where Molyneux tells us about the ship in a bottle he’s been working on for the last three months. Stay tuned. Check out our Fable II games page to see just how good the last game in the popular RPG series rated.
thanks, www.vg247.com.
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Nolan Bushnell to Receive BAFTA Fellowship
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, best described as the UK’s version of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is an organization “dedicated to the recognition and promotion of excellence in the fields of the moving image”. What makes BAFTA unique is that it fully recognizes video games as a part of the entertainment industry. This year, BAFTA announced that it will be honoring video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell with a fellowship at this year’s GAME British Academy Video Games Awards.
Bushnell first made a name for himself back in 1972 when he co-founded a little game company known as Atari and started the video game revolution with Pong. While Pong wasn’t the first video game marketed to the public, it was the first to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets. One urban legend is that the sheer number of people playing Pong was so high that it actually caused a coin shortage in the US, with additional coins being minted to meet demand.
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