The British Academy Games Awards are given out each Spring in a wide variety of different categories that celebrate all of the different disciplines in video game design. The nominees have been announced and the awards will be given out on April 7th.
Take a look below for a list of the nominees. (And because I love to make predictions and being proven wrong… I predicted the winner in BOLD.)
AMD eSports Audience Award in 2016
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft
League Of Legends
Dota 2
Smite
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3
Artistic Achievement in 2016
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Ori and the Blind Forest
Batman: Arkham Knight
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Audio Achievement in 2016
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Batman: Arkham Knight
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Star Wars Battlefront
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Best Game in 2016
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Life is Strange
Rocket League
Fallout 4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
British Game in 2016
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Batman: Arkham Knight
Prison Architec
Tearaway Unfolded
Until Dawn
Her Story
Debut Game in 2016
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Her Story
Prune
Ori and the Blind Forest
Mini Metro
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Family in 2016
Disney Infinity 3.0: Play Without Limits
Guitar Hero: Live
Super Mario Maker
Rocket League
FIFA 16
LEGO Dimensions
Game Design in 2016
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Rocket League
Grow Home
Bloodborne
Her Story
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Game Innovation in 2016
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Her Story
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Life is Strange
Until Dawn
Splatoon
Mobile & Handheld in 2016
Prune
Fallout Shelter
Lara Croft GO
Alphabear
Her Story
The Room Three
Multiplayer in 2016
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Destiny: The Taken King
World of Warships
Rocket League
Splatoon
Music in 2016
Batman: Arkham Knight
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Halo V: Guardians
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Ori and the Blind Forest
Fallout 4
Original Property in 2016
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Ori and the Blind Forest
Life is Strange
Splatoon
Her Story
Until Dawn
Performer in 2016
Oliver Dimsdale, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (Stephen Appleton)
Merle Dandridge, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (Kate Collins)
Mark Hamill, Batman: Arkham Knight (The Joker)
Ashly Burch, Life is Strange (Chloe Price)
Masasa Moyo, Broken Age: Act 2 (Vella)
Doug Cockle, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Witcher)
Persistent Game in 2016
Destiny: The Taken King
Final Fantasy XIV Online
LEGO Dimensions
Guitar Hero: Live
Prison Architect
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Sport in 2016
Forza Motorsport 6
DiRT Rally
Football Manager
FIFA 16
Rocket League
PES 2016
Story in 2016
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Life is Strange
Until Dawn
Undertale
Her Story
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
