BAVGA

Or the British Academy Video Game Awards. Now in its second year and people get an actual Bafta for winning so it's not like the TV Quick Awards where it some shite that doesn't really matter.

It was on last night and it looks like a big night for Wii Sports taking home a shit load of awards.

* Action and Adventure - Crackdown (Realtime Worlds, Microsoft, X360)
* Artistic Achievement - Okami (Clover Studio, Capcom, PS2)
* Best Game - BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia, 2K Games, PC, X360)
* Casual - Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Gameplay - Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Innovation - Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Multiplayer - Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Original Score - Okami (Clover Studio, Capcom, PS2)
* Sports - Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Strategy and Simulation - Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Story and Character - God of War II (SCE Santa Monica, SCE, PS2)
* Technical Achievement - God of War II (SCE Santa Monica, SCE, PS2)
* Use of Audio - Crackdown (Realtime Worlds, Microsoft, X360)
* BAFTA Ones to Watch Award (Independent Dev) - Ragnarawk (Voodoo Boogy)
* The PC World Gamers Award (Public Voting Online) - Football Manager 2007 (Sports Interactive, Sega, PC)

I agree with quite a few here, God of War II kicked some royal ass and it certainly the best game ever made for the PS2, hell of a swansong to go out on. Bioshock for best game, yep, i'd go with that one. Never actually played Okami, it looked very good but i just never got around to it. It's coming out on the Wii at some point so might have to give it a good checking when it does.

Nice to see the PS3 got some recognition. I'm sure this'll do their games production and console sales a lot of good...

Didn't play anything last night as i watched Ratatouille. Really great movie, thoroughly enjoyed it. Brad Bird (director, writer) is Midas at the moment. Be nice if he could do the hat-trick and make a third cracker (first was The Incredibles).