The favored Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has nabbed a powerful 12 nominations at this 12 months’s BAFTA Recreation Awards nominations, and is of course set to win much more.
Clair Obscur is up for main Greatest Recreation awards and the debut sport for its studio Sandfall Interactive. It’s the most nominated debut movie of all time on the BAFTAs, and the third-highest complete nominations ever (behind 2021’s The Final of Us Half 2 with 13 nominations and 2023’s God of Conflict: Ragnarok with 14 nominations).
Dispatch, the acclaimed superhero office comedy created by former Telltale workforce members, has gained 9 awards, together with Greatest Recreation and Greatest Debut Recreation. Ghost of Yourei has eight nods and Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore has seven nods. “Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle” has six nominations, and “Raiders of the Ark” has 5 nominations.
Particular person performers embody Breaking Unhealthy’s Aaron Paul, who performed Robert Robertson in Dispatch, Erika Ishii, who performed Atsu in Yotei’s Ghost, and quite a few nominations for the forged of Claire Obscure.
Ben Starr and Jennifer English will as soon as once more compete for the roles of Verso and Mael (English gained final 12 months’s Recreation Awards). Daredevil actor Charlie Cox is nominated for Greatest Supporting Actor for Gustave, and Kirstie Ryder can also be nominated for Greatest Supporting Actor for Rune.
Apparently, Troy Baker is within the operating for each Greatest Actor and Greatest Supporting Actor this 12 months for his roles as Indy in Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle and Higgs in Dying Stranding 2.
“At this time’s nominations acknowledge 42 excellent video games that showcase one of the best of the worldwide gaming business,” BAFTA Video games Committee Chair Tara Saunders mentioned in a press release to videogameaddicted.
“This 12 months’s nominations mirror the realignment of the business itself, with a vibrant mixture of established studios alongside a variety of unbiased studios, in addition to various first-time nominated growth groups. The technical excellence, artistry and innovation behind these titles shines by means of. The nominations are a unprecedented achievement and we lengthen our heartfelt congratulations to all of the nominees for his or her innovation, laborious work and resilience.”
The BAFTA Video games Awards 2026 will crown the winners at a ceremony to be held at London’s Queen Elizabeth Corridor on April seventeenth. The ceremony may also be considered on-line by means of YouTube. The total record of candidates is beneath.
BAFTA Recreation Awards 2026 Nominated Works
animation
- Battlefield 6 Growth Group – Battlefield Studios/Digital Arts
- DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Masaaki Kawada, Laurie Jezekel – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- DISPATCH Growth Group – AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
- GHOST OF YΕtei Growth Group – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- HADES II Craig Harris, Nikita Taranduke, Jen Zhi – Supergiant Video games/Supergiant Video games
- HOLLOW KNIGHT:SILKSONG Growth Group – Group Cherry/Group Cherry
inventive achievement
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Growth Group – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Yoji Shinkawa, Megan Tuckwell – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- DISPATCH Derek Stratton – Advert Hoc Studio/Advert Hoc Studio
- GHOST OF YΕtei Growth Group – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- HOLLOW KNIGHT:SILKSONG Growth Group – Group Cherry/Group Cherry
- SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT Growth Group – Compulsion Video games/Xbox Recreation Studios
audio achievements
- ARC RAIDERS Bence Pajor, Olof Stromqvist, Simon Svanbeck – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Growth Group – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Hiroyuki Nakayama – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- DISPATCH Growth Group – AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
- GHOST OF YΕtei Growth Group – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle Growth Group β MachineGames/Bethesda
greatest video games
- Ark Raiders Alexander Grondal, Stefan Strandberg, Virgil Watkins – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
- BLUE PRINCE Growth Group β Dogubomb/Uncooked Fury
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Growth Group – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- Dispatch Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, Pierre Shorette – Advert Hoc Studio/Advert Hoc Studio
- GHOST OF YΕtei Growth Group – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle Growth Group β MachineGames/Bethesda
british video games
- ATOMFALL Growth Group β Rise up/Rise up
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Gareth Damien Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Leap By the Ages/Fellow Vacationers
- Mafia: Previous Nation Growth Group – Hangar 13/2K
- MONUMENT VALLEY 3 Growth Group – ustwo video games/ustwo video games
- POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2 Growth Group β FuturLab/FuturLab
- TWO POINT MUSEUM Growth Group – Two Level Studios/SEGA
debut sport
- BLUE PRINCE Growth Group β Dogubomb/Uncooked Fury
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Growth Group – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- Eat Me Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson – Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet WP, Ken & Snyder/ Hexecutable LLC
- DESPELOTE Growth Group – JuliΓ‘n Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena/Panic
- Dispatch Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, Pierre Shorette – Advert Hoc Studio/Advert Hoc Studio
- THE MIDNIGHT Stroll Growth Group β MoonHood/Quick Journey Recreation
evolving sport
- FALLOUT 76 Growth Group – Bethesda Recreation Studios/Bethesda
- HELLDIVERS 2 Growth Group – Arrowhead Recreation Studios/Sony Interactive Leisure
- HITMAN WORLD OF ASSASSINATION Growth Group – IO Interactive/IO Interactive
- NO MAN’S SKY Growth Group – Good day Video games/Good day Video games
- VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Growth Group β poncle/Poncle
- Warhammer 40,000: Area Marines 2 Dmitry Grigorenko, Oliver Hollis Reich, Anatoly Kolka – Saber Interactive/Focus Leisure Publishing
household
- Donkey Kong Bananza Growth Group – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
- Is that this seat taken? Ausias Dalmau, Sergi Perez – Poti Poti/Healthful Video games Presents
- Lego get together! Growth Group – SMG Studio/Fiction
- Mario Kart World Growth Group β Nintendo
- POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2 Growth Group β FuturLab/FuturLab
- TWO POINT MUSEUM Growth Group – Two Level Studios/SEGA
A sport that goes past leisure
- THE ALTERS Growth Group – 11 Bit Studio/11 Bit Studio
- AND ROGER Yona, Yasuhiro Nakashima – TearyHand Studio/Kodansha
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Gareth Damien Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Leap By the Ages/Fellow Vacationers
- Eat Me Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson – Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet WP, Ken & Snyder/ Hexecutable LLC
- FLASH Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, Gabe Cuzzillo – Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena/Panic
- STALKER 2: Chernobyl Core Growth Group – GSC Recreation World/GSC Recreation World
sport design
- BALL X PIT Kenny Solar – Kenny Solar & Associates/Devolver Digital
- Blue Prince Tonda Ross – Dogbomb/Regulation Fury
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Growth Group – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- GHOST OF YΕtei Growth Group – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- HADES II Amir Rao, Gavin Simon, Greg Kasavin – Supergiant Video games/Supergiant Video games
- SPLIT FICTION Growth Group – Hazelight Studios/Digital Arts
multiplayer
- ARC RAIDERS Alexander Grondal, Virgil Watkins – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
- Dune: Awakening Marcos Pereira, Paul Vallet, Hugo GonΓ§alves β Funcom/Funcom
- ELDEN RING NIGHTREvideogameaddicted Growth Group – From Software program Inc./Bandai Namco
- Lego get together! Growth Group – SMG Studio/Fiction
- PEAK Growth Group – Agro Membership & Landfall/Agro Membership & Landfall
- SPLIT FICTION Growth Group – Hazelight Studios/Digital Arts
music
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Lorient Testard, Alice Duport-Percier β Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Wooden Child, Ludwig Forsel – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- Dispatch Andrew Arcadi, Skyler Barto – Advert Hoc Studio/Advert Hoc Studio
- GHOST OF YOUTEI Touma Otowa, Peter Scaturro, Keith Leary – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG Christopher Larkin – Group Cherry/Group Cherry
- Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle Gordie Herb, Pete Ward, Christopher Larson – MachineGames/Bethesda
story
- THE ALTERS Tomasz Kisilewicz, Katarzyna Tybinka – 11 Bit Studio/11 Bit Studio
- Blue Prince Tonda Ross – Dogbomb/Regulation Fury
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Guillaume Broche, Jennifer Svedberg Yen – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Kenji Yano, Ray Karasci – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle Growth Group β MachineGames/Bethesda
- KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE II Growth Group – Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver
new mental property
- THE ALTERS Growth Group – 11 Bit Studio/11 Bit Studio
- Ark Raiders Alexander Grondal, Stefan Strandberg, Robert Summelin β Embark Studios/Embark Studios
- Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Growth Group – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- Dispatch Pierre Cholet, Dennis Renato, Nick Herman – Advert Hoc Studio/Advert Hoc Studio
- SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT Growth Group – Compulsion Video games/Xbox Recreation Studios
- SPLIT FICTION Growth Group – Hazelight Studios/Digital Arts
principal performer
- Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson on ‘Dispatch’ – Advert Hoc Studios/Advert Hoc Studios
- BEN STARR as Verso in “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33” – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- “Ghost of Yotei” Erika Ishii as Atsu – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- Jennifer English as Mael in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- Tom McKay as Henry of Skalitz in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver
- Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle – MachineGames/Bethesda
supporting forged
- Alix Wilton Regan performs Leah Florence Monad in Lies Of P: Overture β NEOWIZ/NEOWIZ
- Charlie Cox as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- Jane Perry as Leah Kane in Lifeless Take – Surgent Studios/Pocketpair Publishing
- Jeffrey Wright: Chase on Dispatch – Advert Hoc Studios/Advert Hoc Studios
- Claire Obscur: Kirsty Ryder as Rune in Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
- “Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore” Troy Baker as Higgs – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
technical achievements
- Ark Raiders Robert Traffe, Martin Shinblom – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
- DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Akio Sakamoto, Neil Johnson – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- DOOM: THE DARK AGES Growth Group – id Software program/Bethesda
- GHOST OF YΕtei Growth Group – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Leisure
- Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle Growth Group β MachineGames/Bethesda
- SPLIT FICTION Growth Group – Hazelight Studios/Digital Arts
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