Sonic Colours and Richard Jacques up for BAFTAS

18 February, 2011 23 July, 2020

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It’s that time of the year again, the video game BAFTA awards in the UK are up, and while I can’t say I think that the judges for these things really know the games industry well enough, the awards have always been interesting to watch at least, with at least the guys presenting the awards being real gamers. Why even last year, and I believe again this year’s host Dara O’Brian even supports the fact that games may in future be considered an art form.

So sadly SEGA has very little in the way to show this year in terms of nominations, which is in part due to the type of people who choose the awards, so Call of Duty and Mario Galaxy 2 pretty much reign it, but there are a few additions worth noting.

In the handheld category Sonic Colours is up against God of War, Professor Layton, and oddly Lego harry Potter and a iPhone game called cut the rope… we have high hopes but to be fair it’ll have a good battle with God of War. While over in the best Original Music Score category our old friend Richard Jacques is up for his excellent work in James Bond 007 Bloodstone, which would be exceptionally awesome if that won because of poor Bizarre Creations as well, so keep your fingers crossed guys.

A full list of nominations can be found here (thanks Nintendo Life).

We’ll bring you the results once they happen on March 16th, although you can also watch it live, was rather entertaining last year of what I caught after work.

Urtheart

Commanding the darkness with one hand, annihilating anything that stands in his way with the other, Urtheart has many incarnations, some of questionable origin, A member of the Emerald Coast team before inevitably moving over to LMC. Contributing here, there and everywhere outside he does the odd bit of art, the odd bit of marketing for a video game company, the odd bit of piracy on the high seas and... actually there's probably more piracy that that come to think of it.