British-made action-adventure game Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II leads the way with 11 nominations at this year’s Bafta Games Awards, with the head of Bafta calling the range of nominees “extraordinary”.
A total of 41 games have been nominated across 17 categories for the awards, which take place in April.
Made by Cambridge-based studio Ninja Theory, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II’s nominations include in the animation, artistic achievement, audio achievement and British game categories, while Sony’s Astro Bot and indie horror game Still Wakes The Deep each have eight nominations.
The nominations feature a host of independent and first-time nominees as well as big name franchises and well-known series such as Call Of Duty, Star Wars and Final Fantasy, which Bafta chief executive Jane Millichip said showed the gaming industry was “really healthy”.
“I think it’s a wide open field,” she told the PA news agency.
“That’s what is extraordinary this year, it’s the range of genres, the size of games – indie, big studio, multiplayer – it’s a bewildering…
