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The BAFTA Game Awards agree: Vampire Survivors is 2022’s best game
The BAFTA Games Awards were held last night – an annual show where a jury of developers throw weighty man-head statues at the crowd, celebrating the best games of any given year. The 2023 BAFTAs celebrated the best of 2022 with a mixed bag of games, awarding big blockbusters alongside popular indies, but the jury agrees with RPS on one front: Vampire Survivors is the best game of 2022. Good BAFTAs.
BAFTA Winners Include GOTY Award For Vampire Survivors
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, aka BAFTA, has announced its winners for its 2023 Game Awards. Games such as God of War Ragnarok, Vampire Survivors, and Tunic are all walking away with awards.
Vampire Survivors was able to secure the win for the Best Game, beating out other titles such as Cult of the Lamb, Stray, and Elden Ring. Other games, such as God of War Ragnorok, left the show with six awards in categories such as Animation and Audio Achievement. Meanwhile, Elden Ring earned its team a pair of rewards for Multiplayer Game and Original Property.
Late last year in December, during The Game Awards, Elden Ring won Game of The Year, Best Game Direction, and a handful of other awards. In comparison, God of War Ragnorok won awards such as Best Narrative, Best Music and Score, and a few others.
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Shuhei Yoshida to be awarded a BAFTA Fellowship on March 30
Shehei Yoshida, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, and current head of Sony’s Independent Developer Initiative, will recieve a BAFTA fellowship on March 30.
The fellowship is the highest honour the awards body can give out, with former winners including Hideo Kojima, Tom Schafer, and John Carmack.
The awards is being given to Yoshida for being “a champion of independent developers”, according to the official press release. It also points to his social media presence, corporate endeavors, and his work nuturing and uplifting indie games over the years.