Tom Richardson
BBC Newsbeat
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Amongst Astro Bot’s haul used to be the highest prize of the evening – absolute best sport
Astro Bot has swept this 12 months’s Bafta Video games Awards, profitable 5 awards in general – together with the highest prize of absolute best sport.
The 3-d platformer, starring the PlayStation mascot personality, additionally received absolute best animation, audio success, circle of relatives sport and sport design.
Its director Nicolas Doucet devoted the most productive sport gong to builders who had “encouraged others to sign up for the trade”.
In the meantime, Nonetheless Wakes the Deep – a horror sport set on a Scottish oil rig within the Seventies – took house 3 of the evening’s trophies.
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It used to be a powerful night time general for Sony as its different huge 2024 hit, Helldivers 2, picked up two awards for absolute best multiplayer and song.
The squad-based shooter used to be a marvel hit when it used to be launched, and its makers needed to race to spice up server capability to satisfy early call for.
Accepting the multiplayer award, Johan Pilestedt, leader inventive officer at developer Arrowhead, stated avid gamers had reached out to him to mention Helldivers 2 had reconnected them with gamer pals from 10 to fifteen years in the past.
“That is such an honour,” he informed the target market at Queen Elizabeth Corridor on London’s South Financial institution.
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Thank Goodness You are Right here! used to be named absolute best British Recreation
Thank Goodness You are Right here! – a comedy caricature sport made via two pals from Yorkshire – received the award for absolute best British sport.
It’s set within the fictional northern the town of Barnsworth, closely encouraged via builders Will Todd and James Carbutt’s house the town of Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
The quirky identify options voice performances from the pair, in addition to actor Matt Berry.
Accepting the prize, the 2 pals stated: “We are hoping this conjures up you to inform your individual tale on your personal voice with out compromise.”
The Bafta Video games Awards, which introduced 21 years in the past, have earned a name as inflicting primary upsets.
In 2023, Vampire Survivors, a sport made via a tiny British group, beat Sony’s big-budget blockbuster God of Conflict: Ragnarok to bag the most productive sport prize.
Many had tipped Balatro – the poker-inspired card sport made via an nameless, lone developer referred to as LocalThunk – to pip Astro Bot to the award this 12 months.
It did, then again, win absolute best debut.
Actor Ben Starr, accepting the award at the developer’s behalf, approached the degree in makeup and a jester’s hat – an outfit encouraged via the sport’s personality Jimbo.
Within the speech, he joked that developer LocalThunk used to be “in reality wealthy now” and suggested the target market to “play extra impartial video games… they’re the lifeblood of this trade”.
Mythical composer Yoko Shimomura accredited the Bafta fellowship in popularity of her contribution to gaming.
Possibly absolute best recognized for her paintings at the Kingdom Hearts collection, from Jap writer Sq. Enix, she recalled how she had “felt like giving up” on her paintings repeatedly.
“The truth I’m status right here in any respect is not any due to my very own efforts, however to the individuals who have supported me,” she stated in her acceptance speech.
“I think if the song I’ve made has resonated with one particular person and touched their hearts in a method, it used to be value it.”
Nonetheless Wakes the Deep swept the lead and supporting efficiency classes, and used to be additionally named absolute best new highbrow belongings.
Actor Abubakar Salim, recognized for performances in Murderer’s Creed and HBO’s Area of the Dragon, gave an emotional speech as he accrued the video games past leisure award.
A willing gamer, he arrange his personal building corporate and its debut free up, Stories of Kenzera: Zau, used to be encouraged via the grief he felt on the lack of his father.
In the meantime, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, which went into the rite with 11 nominations, went house with only one award: technical success.
Bafta Video games Awards 2025 – the winners in complete:
Animation: Astro Bot
Creative success: Neva
Audio success: Astro Bot
Bafta fellowship: Yoko Shimomura (composer)
Perfect sport: Astro Bot
British Recreation: Thank Goodness You are Right here!
Debut sport: Balatro
Evolving sport: Vampire Survivors
Circle of relatives sport: Astro Bot
Recreation past leisure: Stories of Kenzera: ZAU
Recreation design: Astro Bot
Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
Track: Helldivers 2
Narrative: Metaphor: ReFantazio
New highbrow belongings: Nonetheless Wakes the Deep
Main efficiency: Alec Newman as Caz in Nonetheless Wakes the Deep
Perfect supporting actor: Karen Dunbar as Finlay in Nonetheless Wakes the Deep
Technical success: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
