BAFTA Game Awards
The 2020 BAFTA Game Nominations are in
The nominees for the 2020 British Academy Games Awards have been revealed: Death Stranding and Control are tied for the most nominations with 11 each, the most any game has received in BAFTA’s history.
Death Stranding’s inclusion in the Best Debut Game category has caused a bit of a kerfuffle, since most of the developers at Kojima Productions had years (or even decades) of experience from Konami, and it didn’t seem fair to place Death Stranding alongside Askiisoft’s Katana Zero and Foam Sword’s Knights and Bikes.
- Disco Elysium trails Death Stranding and Control with 7 award nominations
- Death Stranding was not nominated for Best Game
The award ceremony takes place on April 2nd and tickets are available now. The BAFTA Games Awards ceremony takes place at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and can be streamed live on your favorite streaming website.
Time For A Quick Daily Quiz?
Which of the following Konami games was produced by Hideo Kojima?
- Frogger: Helmet Chaos
- Contra: Hard Corps
- Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand
- Suikoden III
The answer will be revealed at the bottom of today’s issue. Join up with our community on Twitter and Facebook to discuss what the answer could be.
Daily Fact
Mario’s First Car
Mario Kart might be Nintendo’s most popular franchise, but it was also the first game where Mario and his crew did something other than bop each other on the head – unless you count Mario’s stints as referee in Punch-Out and golfer in Nintendo Golf.
Super Mario Kart was originally just a two-player splitscreen racing game, but Nintendo clearly deemed it promising enough to put Mario in it. That turned out to be a great decision and turned kart racing into a major videogame genre.
It also paved the way for a variety of sports titles starring Mario and company, including the upcoming Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Will it feature a Dr. Mario minigame where you fight off COVID-19?
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