Country United Kingdom Instituted 2004 | First awarded 2004 Official website www.bafta.org/games Category of BAFTA Games Award | |
Awarded for The best game of the year, across all genres and platforms People also search for BAFTA Games Award for Innovation | ||
The British Academy Video Games Award for Best Game is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given in honor of "the best game of the year, across all genres and platforms". The 1st British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony was held in 2004, with Infinity Ward and Activision's game Call of Duty receiving the award. The award was originally known as Game of the Year – The Year's Best Game for the 2004 ceremony.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 11 games. As developers, Valve Corporation have received the most awards in this category, with two wins; as publishers, both Activision and Valve have received the most awards in this category, with two wins each. Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development division were nominated on six occasions, more than any other developer; and Electronic Arts are the most nominated publisher, with 11 nominations. Fallout 4,developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks, is the most recent winner of the Best Game award.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years are listed as per BAFTA convention, and generally correspond to the year of game release in the United Kingdom.