{"id":536738,"date":"2026-04-17T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:50:08","slug":"2026-bafta-games-awards-winners-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536738\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 BAFTA Games Awards Winners List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTime to don your best beret. Sandfall and Kepler Interactive\u2019s French action adventure game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a> staked claim on the Best Game prize at the 22nd BAFTA Games Awards<\/a>, which were handed out Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank of London.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tClair Obscur: Expedition 33 also garnered a win for Debut Game and Performer in a Leading Role for Jennifer English, who plays Maelle. Clair Obscur: Expedition came into the ceremony with 12 total nominations, followed by Dispatch<\/a> with nine, Ghost of Y\u014dtei<\/a> with eight, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/a> with seven and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with six.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOther winners included Death Stranding 2 for Artistic Achievement, Ghost of Y\u014dtei for Technical Achievement and Music, No Man\u2019s Sky for Evolving Game, Lego Party! for Family Game, South of Midnight<\/a> for New Intellectual Property and Atomfall for British Game. Jeffrey Wright also won Performer in a Supporting Role for his role as Chase in Dispatch.<\/p>\n

\n\tPresenters included Daredevil: Born Again star Charlie Cox, who was also nominated for his role as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, for the Multiplayer category, and House of the Dragon\u2019s Abubakar Salim gave out the award for Animation. Prolific James Bond film composer David Arnold presented the award for Music along with exclusively debuting the title song for the upcoming IO Interactive\u2019s 007: First Light video game sung by Lana Del Rey. The leads of Resident Evil Requiem Angela Sant\u2019Albano and Nick Apostolides presented the award for Performer in a Supporting Role, and The Walking Dead\u2019s Lennie James for Performer in a Leading Role.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show also featured a special live performance of \u201cStay the Night\u201d from Talia Mar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the winners of the BAFTA Games Awards:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Game<\/p>\n

\n\tClair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tAnimation<\/p>\n

\n\tDispatch<\/p>\n

\n\tArtistic Achievement<\/p>\n

\n\tDeath Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/p>\n

\n\tAudio Achievement<\/p>\n

\n\tDispatch<\/p>\n

\n\tBritish Game<\/p>\n

\n\tAtomfall<\/p>\n

\n\tDebut Game<\/p>\n

\n\tClair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tEvolving Game<\/p>\n

\n\tNo Man\u2019s Sky<\/p>\n

\n\tFamily<\/p>\n

\n\tLego Party!<\/p>\n

\n\tGame Beyond Entertainment<\/p>\n

\n\tDespelote<\/p>\n

\n\tGame Design<\/p>\n

\n\tBlue Prince<\/p>\n

\n\tMultiplayer<\/p>\n

\n\tArc Raiders<\/p>\n

\n\tMusic<\/p>\n

\n\tGhost of Y\u014dtei<\/p>\n

\n\tNarrative<\/p>\n

\n\tKingdom Come: Deliverance II<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Intellectual Property<\/p>\n

\n\tSouth of Midnight<\/p>\n

\n\tPerformer in a Leading Role<\/p>\n

\n\tJennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tPerformer in a Supporting Role<\/p>\n

\n\tJeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch<\/p>\n

\n\tTechnical Achievement\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGhost of Y\u014dtei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time to don your best beret. Sandfall and Kepler Interactive\u2019s French action adventure game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115134,185382,110720,185383,83615,96,59,110721,165797,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awardsnews","9":"tag-bafta-games-awards","10":"tag-clair-obscur-expedition-33","11":"tag-death-stranding-2-on-the-beach","12":"tag-dispatch","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gb","15":"tag-ghost-of-yu014dtei","16":"tag-south-of-midnight","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}