Astro Bot Snags 5 BAFTA Awards, Including Best Game – WGB

The BAFTA awards have formally wrapped and part of the present was handing out awards to videogames. The large winner was undoubtedly the 2024 PlayStation unique Astro Bot, which took residence 5 awards. I swear, one among them higher have been an award for cuteness.

In the end, Astro Bot walked away with the trophies for Finest Recreation, Recreation Design, Household, Audio Achievement and Animation. Not too shabby for a sequence that started life as a VR oddity after which turned a tech demo for the PS5.

Astro Bot wasn’t the one recreation to win a number of awards although, as a shocking title managed to bag 3 awards. First-person horror recreation Nonetheless Wakes the Deep picked up three trophies. The most important was for New IP, but it surely additionally additionally acquired Performer in a Main Position (Alew Newman) and Performer in a Supporting Position (Karen Dunbar). I reviewed Still Wakes the Deep last year and actually loved it regardless of some pretty large points, and the appearing was certainly bloody implausible.

As for the opposite awards, right here’s the checklist of winners:

Neva – Inventive Achievement
Thank Goodness You’re Right here – Finest British Recreation
Belatro – Finest Debut Recreation
Vampire Survivors – Evolving Recreation
Yoko Shimomura – Fellowship
Tales of Kenzera: Zau – Recreation Past Leisure
Helldivers 2 – Multiplayer
Helldivers 2 – Music
Metaphor: Refantazio – Narrative
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – Technical Achievement