The futuristic adventures are both in 11 categories this year, with Disco Elysium and Untitled Goose Game also featuring highly

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Bafta has announced the nominations for the 2020 games awards, and two titles have received the highest ever number of nominations in the history of the event. Hideo Kojima’s elegiac adventure Death Stranding and Remedy Entertainment’s science-fiction thriller Control have each received 11 nominations.

It is a strong year for original productions. Other heavily nominated titles include the quirky detective role-playing game Disco Elysium, nostalgic Goonies-inspired adventure Knights and Bikes, and last year’s cult hit Untitled Goose Game.

The best game category features only one sequel, Luigi’s Mansion 3. Other games nominated in the category are Control, Untitled Goose Game, Disco Elysium, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Outer Wilds.

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This year’s ceremony is introducing four new categories: animation, technical achievement, performer in a leading role and performer in a supporting role, the latter two splitting the usual performer award into two, perhaps recognising the growing role of actors in an era of highly detailed motion-captured performances.

Kojima will receive the Bafta fellowship, following creators such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright and John Carmack. A woman is yet to receive fellowship recognition in video games since the awards began in 2007.

The awards ceremony will take place on 2 April at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with long-time host Dara Ó Briain returning.

Complete list of nominations

Best game

Control

Disco Elysium

Luigi’s Mansion 3

Outer Wilds

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Untitled Goose Game

British game

Dirt Rally 2.0

Heaven’s Vault

Knights and Bikes

Observation

Planet Zoo

Total War: Three Kingdoms

Original property

Baba Is You

Control

Death Stranding

Disco Elysium

Outer Wilds

Untitled Goose Game

Game design

Baba Is You

Control

Disco Elysium

Outer Wilds

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Wattam

Performer in a leading role

Laura Bailey – Gears 5

Courtney Hope – Control

Logan Marshall-Green – Telling Lies

Gonzalo Martin – Life Is Strange 2

Barry Sloane – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Norman Reedus – Death Stranding

Performer in a supporting role

Jolene Andersen – Life Is Strange 2

Sarah Bartholomew – Life Is Strange 2

Troy Baker – Death Stranding

Léa Seydoux – Death Stranding

Martti Suosalo – Control

Ayisha Issa – The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Technical achievement

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Control

Death Stranding

Metro Exodus

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Narrative

Control

Disco Elysium

Life Is Strange 2 (Episodes 2-5)

Outer Wilds

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

The Outer Worlds

Music

Control

Death Stranding

Disco Elysium

Outer Wilds

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Wattam

Multiplayer

Apex Legends

Borderlands 3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Luigi’s Mansion 3

Tick Tock: A Tale for Two

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

Game beyond entertainment

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm

Death Stranding

Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)

Life Is Strange 2 (Episodes 2-5)

Neo Cab

Ring Fit Adventure

Family

Concrete Genie

Knights and Bikes

Luigi’s Mansion 3

Untitled Goose Game

Vacation Simulator

Wattam

Evolving game

Apex Legends

Destiny 2

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

Fortnite

No Man’s Sky: Beyond

Path of Exile

Debut game

Ape Out

Death Stranding

Disco Elysium

Katana Zero

Knights and Bikes

Manifold Garden

Audio achievement

Ape Out

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Control

Death Stranding

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Untitled Goose Game

Artistic achievement

Concrete Genie

Control

Death Stranding

Disco Elysium

Knights and Bikes

Sayonara Wild Hearts

Animation

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Control

Death Stranding

Luigi’s Mansion 3

Sayonara Wild Hearts

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

EE mobile game of the year (voted for by the public)

Assemble With Care

Call of Duty: Mobile

Dead Man’s Phone

Pokémon Go

Tangle Tower

What the Golf?