The mobile invasion at BAFTA

The nominations for March’s BAFTA Games Awards were announced yesterday, and the portable category makes interesting reading. What was previously referred to as the Handheld award is now Mobile & Handheld, which neatly reflects the shift that seems to have occurred. In 2009 and 2010 it was all PSP and DS. In 2011, one mobile …

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There’s a BAFTA for gameplay?

The nominations for the British Academy Video Game Awards have been announced, and make for really rather dull reading. For the sake of it: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has seven nominations; Grand Theft Auto IV has six; Fable II and LittleBigPlanet have five each. Anyway, what struck me were the categories. I can …

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