Yesterday, the BAFTA Games awards 2022 ceremony came and went, with many games being honored at the esteemed show. The BAFTAs are meant to celebrate gaming’s achievements for the year, in a pretty similar vein to The Game Awards run every winter by Geoff Keighley. You can watch the stream replay on YouTube below.
The two-and-a-half-hour broadcast had multiple different highlights put on display, such as 2021’s Returnal winning four awards at the show. Other big winners at the show include:
It Takes Two won two awards, being Multiplayer and Original Property Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart won two awards, Animation, and Technical Achievement. Kimberly Brooks is a first-time performance winner, taking home the BAFTA for Performer in a Supporting Role for her role as Hollis Forsythe in Psychonauts 2. The Artful Escape won the award for Artistic Achievements. TOEM, the hand-drawn adventure game, won the Debut category. Evolving Game was won by No Man’s Sky, the game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated galaxy. Forza Horizon 5 won British Game, and this is the second BAFTA for the racing franchise that has been nominated in every year of release.
The BAFTA Game Show this year was supported and sponsored by official game partners Electronic Arts, Epic Games, PlayStation, SEGA, Tencent, and Ubisoft with EE sponsoring the Game of the Year Award, which was won by Returnal. Once again, you can watch the full show with the YouTube link provided above. Check our coverage of the previous year’s award ceremony here.
