Tears Of The Kingdom, Mario Surprise & Dave The Diver Compete For High Prize At BAFTAs

The British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts — generally referred to as BAFTA — has introduced the nominees for the BAFTA Video games Awards 2024.

The Greatest Sport class is stacked, because it has been for all sport awards ceremonies over the previous few months. Nintendo has each The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise competing for the highest prize alongside Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Dave The Diver — the most important shock within the line-up.

Tears of the Kingdom boasts six nominations. Alongside being up for Greatest Sport, it is also in rivalry for awards in Audio Achievement, Sport Design, Music, Narrative, and Technical Achievement. Mario Surprise is up for 4, together with Household, Animation, and Multiplayer.

Different Change video games up for awards embrace COCOON, Dredge, Cassette Beasts, Disney Phantasm Island, Venba, and Stray Gods. You may take a look at the total listing of nominations and awards on the BAFTA web site. Right here, you may as well vote for the EE Participant’s Selection winner, the place Tears of the Kingdom can be in rivalry.

40 video games have been nominated in over 17 totally different classes, with Baldur’s Gate 3 dominating proceedings as anticipated with 10 nominations — and it will doubtless be very troublesome to beat within the prime class. Nevertheless, BAFTA has been identified to go somewhat off-piste with its awards, and final yr awarded Vampire Survivors the coveted Greatest Sport trophy.