
“No one guessed this would go on for a year,” said Vince Zampella, head of Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment.

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The awards broadcast began with a series of filmed interviews with game developers discussing the challenges of remote working in a highly collaborative medium. It was a night of reflection about a difficult year for the industry. Photograph: Rocky Darko/BAFTA/REX/Shutterstock In a strong night for veteran UK studios, Rare won the award for evolving game for its innovative multiplayer pirate adventure, Sea of Thieves.Įlle Osili-Wood hosts the 2021 Bafta games awards. The wildly ambitious Dreams by Guildford-based Media Molecule, which allows players to construct their own games, animations and music, won in technical achievement, and studio director Siobhan Reddy was awarded the Bafta Fellowship.

The best British game award was taken by SackBoy: A Big Adventure by Sumo Digital, which also won in the family category. The night was expected to be dominated by high-profile sequel The Last of Us Part II, which in the end took three awards: animation, acting in a lead role, which was won by Laura Bailey for her performance as Abby, and the EE best game of the year award, voted by viewers. In a ceremony carried out entirely online, the title by San Francisco-based developer Supergiant Games won in five categories, including best game, game design, narrative and artistic achievement. Critically acclaimed dungeon-crawler game Hades was the big winner at the Bafta games awards on Thursday night.
