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These are the best games of 2015 (according to BAFTA)

If you haven't played the following, you really, really should.

These are the best games of 2015 (according to BAFTA)
08 April 2016

2015 might feel like a grim, clammy memory of evenings wasted failing to convince yourself you really would stop playing that game, right after you nail this boss - but to the bods of BAFTA, 2015 only ended yesterday. Or at least in March. Because of the financial calendar, or something. 

Anyway, that's a clumsy way of introducing the winners of 2015's British Academy Games Awards (presented in 2016): those video games that you poured many an hour into, that you cancelled social plans to play and stayed indoors for an unhealthily long period with.

If you haven't played the following, you really, really should. 

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

Ori and the Blind Forest 


AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

Everybody's Gone To The Rapture


BEST GAME

Fallout 4


BRITISH GAME

Batman: Arkham Knight


DEBUT GAME

Her Story


FAMILY

Rocket League 


GAME DESIGN

Bloodborne


GAME INNOVATION

Her Story


MOBILE & HANDHELD

Her Story


MULTIPLAYER

Rocket League


MUSIC

Everybody's Gone To The Rapture


ORIGINAL PROPERTY

Until Dawn


PERFORMER

Merle Dandridge - Everybody's Gone To The Rapture


PERSISTENT GAME

​Prison Architecture 


SPORT

Rocket League


STORY

Life is Strange


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