Bafta Games Awards 2021 nominations: The Last of Us Part II leads with record-breaking 13 nods Louis Chilton
The Last of Us Part II leads the pack with 13 nominations, the most ever awarded to a single game. It beats last year’s joint record holders
Death Stranding and
Bafta Games Awards 2021 release nominations
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Hades, available on the Nintendo Switch, garnered eight.
Among the other games to receive multiple nominations are
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales,
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Fall Guys will join Fortnite maker as Epic Games acquires Tonic Games Group
Shannon Liao, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Epic Games announced Tuesday that it acquired the parent company behind popular indie game, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. It declined to share how much it paid.
Epic will acquire Tonic Games Group, the company that owns Mediatonic Games, an indie studio based in the United Kingdom that released Fall Guys last summer to massive, almost immediate success. The game sold more than 7 million copies on Steam and an undisclosed number on PlayStation within a few weeks of release. The game is coming to the Nintendo Switch and Xbox this summer.
The Last of Us 2 is up for 13 awards
Naughty Dog s The Last of Us Part II has set a new record at the Bafta Games Awards after it was nominated for 13 awards. A scalding treatise on the cycle of violence , the post-apocalyptic blockbuster is in the running for a number of disciplines including overall Best Game and received five nominations in the performer categories alone.
The number of nominations beats the previous record of 11 set last year by Remedy s sci-fi thriller Control and Hideo Kojima s Death Stranding. Although in a note of caution for Naughty Dog s game, those games were victorious in just one category each. The California studio has previous at the Baftas, however, winning Best Game in 2013 and 2016 with The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 respectively.
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