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The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards 2012 were announced in London. Valve's "Portal 2" stole the show with three awards for Design, Story and the coveted Best Game. "Little Big Planet 2", "Battlefied 3" and "Batman:Arkham City" were the other games that won awards in important categories.

Celebrating the skill and talent in the gaming industry, the GAME awards are announced by BAFTA every year. According to Electronic Theatre, "Batman:Arkham City" took the Award for Action and Mark Hamill received his first-ever BAFTA in the new Performer category for his role as the Joker. The jury lauded Mark's performance as: "... a compelling new dimension of the classic villain psyche".

The full list of winners are given below:

Action:

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Martin Schelling, Darby McDevitt, Raphael Lacoste

Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft

WINNER: Batman: ArkhamCity

Development Team

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Development Team

Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Jean-Francois Dugas, Antoine Thisdale
Eidos Montreal/Square-Enix

Portal 2
Development Team
Valve/Valve

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Development Team
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Artistic Achievement

Batman: ArkhamCity

Development Team

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

L.A. Noire

Simon Wood, Cheekin Chan, Ben Brudenell

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

LittleBigPlanet 2

Development Team

Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

WINNER: Rayman Origins

Michel Ancel, Celine Tellier, Christophe Villez

UBlart Montpellier/Ubisoft

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Todd Howard

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Game Studios

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Development Team
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Audio Achievement

Batman: ArkhamCity

Development Team

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

WINNER: Battlefield 3

Stefan Strandberg, Bence Pajor, Carl Vikman

Dice/Electronic Arts

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Development Team

Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard

Dead Space 2

Andrew Boyd, J White, Steve Papoutsis

Visceral Games/Electronic Arts

The Nightjar

Development Team

Somethin' Else/Somethin' Else

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Development Team
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Best Game

Batman: ArkhamCity

Development Team

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

FIFA 2012

Kaz Makita, David Rutter, Aaron McHardy

Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts

L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara, Naresh Hirani, Alex Carlyle

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

WINNER: Portal 2

Development Team
Valve/Valve

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Todd Howard

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Game Studios

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Development Team

Nintendo/Nintendo

Debut Game

Bastion

Amir Rao, Greg Kasavin, Darren Korb

Supergiant Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Eufloria

Rudolf Kremers, Alex May

Omni Systems Limited/Omni Systems Limited

WINNER: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Michel Gagne, Joe Olson

Shadow Planet Productions/Microsoft Studios

L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara, Naresh Hirani, Alex Carlyle

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

Monstermind

Development Team

Bossa Studios/Bossa Studios

RIFT
Scott Hartsman, Russ Brown

Trion Worlds/Trion Worlds

Design

Batman: ArkhamCity

Development Team

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara, Alex Carlyle, Andrew Hamilton

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

LittleBigPlanet 2

Development Team

Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

WINNER: Portal 2

Development Team
Valve/Valve

Super Mario 3D Land

Development Team

Nintendo/Nintendo

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Todd Howard

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Game Studios

Family

Dance Central 2

Development Team

Harmonix/Microsoft Studios

Kinect Sports 2

Development Team

Rare and Big Park Studios/Microsoft Studios

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean

Jon Burton, John Hodskinson, James Cunliffe

TT Games/Disney Interactive Studios

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

Jon Burton, Kellam Eanes, David Hoye

TT Games/Activision Blizzard and LucasArts

WINNER: LittleBigPlanet 2

Development Team

Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Mario Kart 7

Development Team

Nintendo/Nintendo

Game Innovation

Bastion

Amir Rao, Darren Korb, Gavin Simon

Supergiant Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Child of Eden

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Takashi Ishihara, Yuki Ichiki

Q Entertainment/Ubisoft

From Dust

Eric Chahi, Guillaume Brunier, Bruno Gentile
Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft

L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara, Oliver Bao, Franta Fulin

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

WINNER: LittleBigPlanet 2

Development Team

Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Development Team

Nintendo/Nintendo


Mobile & Handheld

Dead Space iOS

Development Team

Iron Monkey Studios/Electronic Arts

Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint

John Pickford, Ste Pickford

Pickford Bros/Zee-3 Limited

WINNER: Peggle HD

JP Vaughan, Paul O'Donnell, Sukhbir Sidhu

Popcap Games/Electronic Arts

Quarrel

Gary Penn, Aaron Puzey, Sean Taylor

Denki Games/UTV Ignition Games

Super Mario 3D Land

Development Team

Nintendo/Nintendo

The Nightjar

Development Team

Somethin' Else/Somethin' Else

Online - Browser

Gardens of Time

Development Team

Playdom/Disney Interactive Media Group

I Am Playr

Oli Madgett, Steve Didd, Dan Mayers

We R Interactive/We R Interactive

WINNER: Monstermind

Henrique Olifiers, Mike Bithell, Ric Moore

Bossa Studios/Bossa Studios

Global Resistance

Development Team

Insomniac Game/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Skylanders Spyro's Universe

Development Team

Toys for Bob/Activision Blizzard

The Sims Social

Development Team

Playfish/Electronic Arts


Online-Multiplayer

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Martin Schelling, Darby McDevitt, Raphael Lacoste

Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft

WINNER: Battlefield 3

Lars Gustavsson, Alan Kertz, Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Dice/Electronic Arts

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Development Team

Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard

Dark Souls

Development Team

From Software/Namco Bandai Games

Gears of War 3

Development Team

Epic Games/Microsoft Studios

LittleBigPlanet 2

Development Team

Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe


Original Music

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Jesper Kyd, Lorne Balfe
Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft

Batman: ArkhamCity

Nick Arundel, Jamie Walker, Sefton Hill

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Michael McCann

Eidos Montreal/Square-Enix

WINNER: L.A. Noire

Andrew Hale, Simon Hale

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Jeremy Soule

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Game Studios

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Greg Edmonson, Azam Ali, Clint Bajakian
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Performer

Aaron Staton (Cole Phelps) - L.A. Noire

WINNER: Mark Hamill (The Joker) - Batman: ArkhamCity

Nolan North (Nathan Drake) - Uncharted 3:

Drake's Deception

Stephen Fry (Narrator) - LittleBigPlanet 2

Stephen Merchant (Wheatley) - Portal 2

Togo Igawa (Dipolomat, Advisor and Military General) - Total War: SHOGUN 2

Sports/Fitness

Dance Central 2

Development Team

Harmonix/Microsoft Studios

DiRT 3

Development Team

Codemasters Racing Studio/Codemasters

F1 2011

Development Team

Codemasters Birmingham/Codemasters

FIFA 2012

Kaz Makita, David Rutter, Aaron McHardy

Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts

WINNER: Kinect Sports 2

Development Team

Rare and Big Park Studios/Microsoft Studios

Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012

Stephane Decroix, Igor Manceau, Philippe Baude

Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft


Story

Batman: ArkhamCity

Development Team

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Mary DeMarle, Jean-Francois Dugas, James Swallow

Eidos Montreal/Square Enix

L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

WINNER: Portal 2

Development Team

Valve/Valve

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Todd Howard

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Europe

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Development Team
Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Strategy

Dark Souls

Development Team

From Software/Namco Bandai Games

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Jean-Francois Dugas, Frank Lapikas

Eidos Montreal/Square Enix

Football Manager 2012

Development Team

Sports Interactive/SEGA

From Dust

Eric Chahi, Guillaume Brunier, Bruno Gentile

Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft

Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
Julian Gollop, Stefan Dyulgerov, Borislav Bogdanov
Ubisoft/Ubisoft

WINNER: Total War: SHOGUN 2

Development Team

Creative Assembly/SEGA

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

Dreamweaver

Malath Abbas, Joseph Hurst, Daniel Scholes, Stuart Brown, Mat Stevenson

(Evolved Ape)

Joust!

Jose B Martinez Hernandez, Roman Graebsch, Agne Gediminskaite, Petr Papez, Amr Din

(Digital Knights)

WINNER: Tick Tock Toys

Sophia George, Kristian Francis, Rosemary Ball, Mark Bamford, Calum Goold

(Swallowtail)

GAME Award of 2011

(The only award to be voted for by the public)

Batman: ArkhamCity

Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

WINNER: Battlefield 3

Dice/Electronic Arts

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard

FIFA 2012

Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts

L.A Noire

Team Bondi/Rockstar Games

Minecraft

Mojang/Mojang

Portal 2

Valve/Valve

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Europe

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Nintendo/Nintendo

Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception

Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe