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BAFTA winners revealed

Wii Sports steals limelight.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has revealed this year's Video Games Awards winners, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

And although BioShock was named as the best game, it was Wii Sports that took home the most face-statues, bagging six out of 13 awards in categories ranging from Sports to Multiplayer to Innovation.

Elsewhere Crackdown walked away with best Action and Adventure and Use of Audio, Okami nabbed Artistic Achievement and best Original Score, and God of War 2 took Technical Achievement and Best Story and Character.

Overall the Wii walked away with six awards to its name, the PS2 with four, and the Xbox 360 with three. Numerous PlayStation 3 titles were nominated, but none of them managed to win.

The PC World Gamer's Award as voted for by the public went to Football Manager 2007, and BAFTA also picked out Ragnarawk - a role-playing game created by a bunch of students as part of the Dare to be Digital design competition - as one to watch.

The full list of winners can be found below:

  • Action and Adventure: Crackdown
  • Strategy and Simulation: Wii Sports
  • Sports: Wii Sports
  • Multiplayer: Wii Sports
  • Casual and Social: Wii Sports
  • Use of Audio: Crackdown
  • Original Score: Okami
  • Technical Achievement: God of War II
  • Artistic Achievement: Okami
  • Gameplay: Wii Sports
  • Innovation: Wii Sports
  • Story and Character: God of War II
  • Game: BioShock
  • The Gamers' Award: Football Manager 2007 (PC)
  • BAFTA's ones to watch: Ragnarawk

And, of course, at the end of the evening Will Wright was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship award for his lifetime of work in the games industry.

Pop over and read our list of nominated games to see who missed out.

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