The Last of Us leads BAFTA game awards with 10 nominations, full nominee list here
The Last of Us just recently scooped the D.I.C.E award's top gong and it's just received ten nominations at the UK's BAFTA game awards.
In an email sent to VG247, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts confirmed that this year, 43 games have been nominated across 17 categories.
The Last of Us is up for ten awards, including Action & Adventure, Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, Best Game, Game Design, Multiplayer, Music, Story, and is up for two Performer awards for Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker's performances.
Grand Theft Auto 5 has been nominated for Action & Adventure, Audio Achievement, Best Game, British Game, Game Design, Game Innovation, Multiplayer, Performer and Story.
Tearaway comes in at third with eight nominations for Artistic Achievement, Best Game, British Game, Family, Game Design, Game Innovation, Mobile & Handheld and Music.
Indie darling Papers, Please joins a list of games bearing four nominations each, and is in the running for Best Game, Game Design, Game Innovation and Strategy & Simulation. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, BioShock Infinite and Super Mario 3D World are also up for four awards apiece.
There are also three nominees from Abertay University's Dare to Be Digital showcase, which are in the running for BAFTA's Ones To Watch Award, and they are: Project Heera: Diamond Heist, Size DOES Matter and The Unknown.
Other nominated titles include: BADLAND, Beyond: Two Souls, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, DEVICE 6, Tomb Raider, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Battlefield 4, Forza Motorsport 5, Gone Home, Gunpoint, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, The Room 2, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Castles in the Sky, Civilization V: Brave New World, Democracy 3, DMC Devil May Cry, DOTA 2, F1 2013, FIFA 14, Football Manager 2014, GRID 2, NBA 2K14, Plants vs Zombies 2, Rayman Legends, Remember Me, Ridiculous Fishing, Skylanders Swap Force, Surgeon Simulator 2013, XCOM: Enemy Within, World of Tanks and Year Walk.
The BAFTA Games Awards kick off on Wednesday 12 March at the Tobacco Dock, London, and will be hosted by comedian Dara O Briain.
Public tickets for the awards can be purchased here.
What do you make of the nominations?
Action & Adventure
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
BADLAND
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
Tomb Raider
Artistic Achievement
Beyond: Two Souls
BioShock Infinite
DEVICE 6
The Last of Us
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Tearaway
Audio Achievement
Battlefield 4
BioShock Infinite
DEVICE 6
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
Best Game
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Papers, Please
Super Mario 3D World
Tearaway
British Game
DmC Devil May Cry
Grand Theft Auto V
Gunpoint
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
The Room Two
Tearaway
Debut Game
BADLAND
Castles in the Sky
Gone Home
Gunpoint
Remember Me
The Stanley Parable
Family
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Rayman Legends
Skylanders Swap Force
Super Mario 3D World
Tearaway
Game Design
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Papers, Please
Tearaway
Tomb Raider
Game Innovation
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Grand Theft Auto V
Papers, Please
The Stanley Parable
Tearaway
Year Walk
Mobile & Handheld
BADLAND
DEVICE 6
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Ridiculous Fishing
The Room Two
Tearaway
Multiplayer
Battlefield 4
DOTA 2
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Super Mario 3D World
World of Tanks
Music
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
Beyond: Two Souls
BioShock Infinite
The Last of Us
Super Mario 3D World
Tearaway
Performer
Ashley Johnson (Ellie) - The Last of Us
Courtnee Draper (Elizabeth) - BioShock Infinite
Ellen Page (Jodie) - Beyond: Two Souls
Kevan Brighting (The Narrator) - The Stanley Parable
Steven Ogg (Trevor Phillips) - Grand Theft Auto V
Troy Baker (Joel) - The Last of Us
Sport
F1 2013
FIFA 14
Football Manager 2014
Forza Motorsport 5
GRID 2
NBA 2K14
Story
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Gone Home
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
The Stanley Parable
Strategy & Simulation
Civilization V: Brave New World
Democracy 3
Forza Motorsport 5
Papers, Please
Surgeon Simulator 2013
XCOM: Enemy Within
BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
Project Heera: Diamond Heist
Chinchkar Tanmay Subhash, Shastry Neeraj Pramod, Dhongde Shashank Sunil, Dave Dhruv Prakashchandra, Shriram Srinivasan
(Mazhlele)
Size DOES Matter
Mattis Delerud, Silje Dahl, Lars Andersen, Trond Fasteraune, Nick La Rooy
(Team DOS)
The Unknown
Chenying Wan, Qiwei Feng, Luyue Zhang, Zhaoxuan Li, Neil Cullen
(iKnow)