Bafta Game Awards: God of War wins six but Vampire Survivors takes top prize

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By Helen Bushby

Entertainment reporter

God of War: Ragnarok has dominated this year's Bafta Game Awards, winning six retired of its 14 nominations, but Vampire Survivors won 2 including champion game.

Dark phantasy epic Elden Ring won two, portion feline simulator Stray went location empty-handed, contempt its 8 nominations.

Ragnarok, which sees players conflict with Norse gods, besides won for some of its dependable performers, Christopher Judge and Laya Deleon Hayes.

Rollerdrome won champion British Game.

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Christopher Judge, apical left, is pictured with immoderate of his God of War: Ragnarok colleagues

Judge, who plays Ragnarok protagonist Kratos, said: "It Is not mislaid connected maine that I'm a achromatic antheral lasting connected a British signifier accepting an grant for playing a Spartan God killer, who successful his bosom ever wants to beryllium a father.

"It is the relation of a lifetime. I'm gonna unrecorded and respire each infinitesimal of this large acquisition that I was given. And I volition bash it humbly."

He asked gaming fans to "give each different a break", adding: "You person much successful communal than what separates you. No substance what level you love."

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Presenter Frankie Ward hosted the awards, which were livestreamed connected Twitch

EE crippled of the year, which was voted for by the public, was besides won by Ragnarok.

Its animator Bruno Velazquez said: "This grant is truly peculiar to us, due to the fact that without each of you retired determination playing our games, we wouldn't beryllium capable to bash this."

Rollerdrome won champion British Game, and its pb decorator Andreas Yannikaris expressed his astonishment arsenic helium collected his Bafta - he'd thought endurance crippled Vampire Survivors would win.

"I'll level with you. I don't truly person thing prepared," helium said. "That 10-year-old kid playing Mega Drive games ne'er thought they'd person a spot astatine the table, and present we are today."

Vampire Survivors' improvement squad besides looked amazed astatine their win, and laughed arsenic they said: "We did not expect this," calling it an "insane, chaotic ride".

Technical manager Sam McGarry thanked "the community, our fans and the players each astir the world, connected each format that they play on".

Vampire Survivors winning champion crippled is simply a existent astonishment - determination was an audible gasp successful the property country erstwhile it took the award, and the squad themselves were intelligibly amazed arsenic well.

Obviously a jury's loved the information it's a caller instrumentality connected what has go a precise fashionable genre. It's a procedurally generated endurance game, wherever you effort and enactment live arsenic agelong arsenic you tin with swarms of enemies coming astatine you.

This caller instrumentality connected it, joined with its old-school ocular style, has intelligibly gone down well.

But Ragnarok won six awards, and it seemed inevitable that would triumph the large one. The information that Elden Ring, which won large astatine the Game Awards earlier Christmas, came distant with 2 golden masks, but not the large one, was besides a surprise.

But Bafta does bash this. I tin retrieve erstwhile Zelda Breath of the Wild didn't triumph successful 2018, and was beaten by What Remains of Edith Finch.

So it has got signifier successful throwing up a astonishment similar this.

Action escapade Tunic won champion debut game, and its creators said: "This is nuts, convey you truthful much."

Presenters of the awards included histrion Troy Baker, who voiced Joel successful the crippled The Last of Us, and went connected to play James successful the HBO TV show. One of the TV show's stars, Game of Thrones histrion Bella Ramsey, who plays Ellie, besides appeared via video link.

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Sam McGarry accepted Vampire Survivors' champion crippled award

Inbetweeners prima and YouTuber James Buckley said arsenic helium presented the multiplayer grant to Elden Ring's creators: "One of the astonishing things astir gaming is the quality to stock your acquisition with others."

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Elden Ring won 2 awards

The Bafta Fellowship grant went to Shuhei Yoshieida, who called his triumph "humbling", saying: "Every advancement of exertion turns it into a instrumentality for developers to make astonishing things.

"So developers dream, due to the fact that their adjacent crippled could alteration the look of the manufacture forever. And I cannot wait."

Last twelvemonth gaming income accounted for £4.7bn successful the UK, which is higher than that of the film, tv oregon euphony industries, according to the integer amusement and retail relation (ERA).

Here are the Bafta Games Awards winners successful full:

Best crippled - Vampire Survivors

Best British crippled - Rollerdrome

Performer successful a starring relation - Christopher Judge arsenic Kratos successful God of War: Ragnarok

Performer successful a supporting relation - Laya Deleon Hayes arsenic Angrboða successful God of War: Ragnarok

EE crippled of the twelvemonth - God of War: Ragnarok

Evolving crippled - Final Fantasy XIV

Original spot - Elden Ring

Game beyond amusement - Endling - Extinction is Forever

Family - Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Animation - God of War: Ragnarok

Game plan - Vampire Survivors