# 7th British Academy Games Awards

The 7th British Academy Video Game Awards (known for the purposes of sponsorship as GAME British Academy Video Games Awards) awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, was an award ceremony held on 16 March 2011 in the London Hilton. The ceremony honoured achievement in video gaming in 2010 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain. Heavy Rain was the major winner on the night, taking three of the seven awards available.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are shown first in bold.
| Action Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts BioShock 2 – 2K Marin/2K Games Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch/Activision God of War III – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Halo: Reach – Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios | Social Network Game My Empire – Playfish Bejeweled Blitz – PopCap Games Farmerama – Bigpoint FIFA Superstars – Playfish, Electronic Arts ZooMumba – Bigpoint Zuma Blitz – Oberon Media, PopCap Games |
| Artistic Achievement God of War III – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch/Activision Heavy Rain – Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Limbo – Playdead/Playdead Mass Effect 2 – BioWare/Electronic Arts/Microsoft Game Studios | Sports F1 2010 – Codemasters/Codemasters FIFA 11 – EA Canada/EA Sports Football Manager 2011 – Sports Interactive/Sega Gran Turismo 5 – Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment International Cricket 2010 – Trickstar Games/Codemasters Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 – Konami/Konami |
| Best Game Mass Effect 2 – BioWare/Electronic Arts/Microsoft Game Studios Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft FIFA 11 – EA Canada/EA Sports Heavy Rain – Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Limbo – Playdead/Playdead Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo | Story Heavy Rain – David Cage, Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Alan Wake – Sam Lake, Mikko Rautalahti, Petri Järvilehto, Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Game Studios BioShock 2 – Jordan Thomas, 2K Marin/2K Games Call of Duty: Black Ops – Craig Houston, Dave Anthony, David S. Goyer, Treyarch/Activision Fallout: New Vegas – John R. Gonzalez, Obsidian Entertainment/Bethesda Softworks Mass Effect 2 – Mac Walters, Drew Karpyshyn, BioWare/Electronic Arts/Microsoft Game Studios |
| Family Kinect Sports – Rare/Microsoft Game Studios Dance Central – Harmonix/MTV Games Kinect Adventures! – Good Science Studio/Microsoft Game Studios Kinectimals – Frontier Developments/Microsoft Game Studios Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 – Traveller's Tales/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Toy Story 3: The Video Game – Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive Studios | Strategy Civilization V – Firaxis Games/2K Games Fallout: New Vegas – Obsidian Entertainment/Bethesda Softworks FIFA Manager 11 – Bright Future GmbH and EA Sports/Electronic Arts Napoleon: Total War – The Creative Assembly/Sega Plants vs. Zombies – PopCap Games/PopCap Games StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment |
| Gameplay Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft God of War III – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Heavy Rain – Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Limbo – Playdead/Playdead Mass Effect 2 – BioWare/Electronic Arts/Microsoft Game Studios | Technical Innovation Heavy Rain – Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch/Activision Halo: Reach – Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios Kinectimals – Frontier Developments/Microsoft Game Studios Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo |
| Handheld Cut the Rope – ZeptoLab/Chillingo God of War: Ghost of Sparta – Ready at Dawn and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 – Traveller's Tales/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Professor Layton and the Lost Future – Level-5/Nintendo Sonic Colours – Sonic Team and Dimps/Sega Super Scribblenauts – 5th Cell/WB Games | Use of Audio Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts Alan Wake – Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Game Studios Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch/Activision DJ Hero 2 – FreeStyleGames/Activision Limbo – Playdead/Playdead |
| Multiplayer Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – Criterion Games/Electronic Arts Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch/Activision Halo: Reach – Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Blizzard Entertainment | BAFTA Ones to Watch Award (in association with Dare to Be Digital) Twang! – PikPok Mush – Motion Twin Sculpty – Team Tickle |
| Original Music Heavy Rain – Normand Corbeil. Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Alan Wake – Petri Alanko, Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Game Studios Fable III – Russell Shaw, Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios James Bond 007: Blood Stone – Richard Jacques, Bizarre Creations/Activision Mass Effect 2 – Jack Wall, Jimmy Hinson, Sam Hulick, David Kates, BioWare/Electronic Arts/Microsoft Game Studios Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu, Koji Kondo, Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo | GAME Award of 2010 Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch/Activision Dance Central – Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios FIFA 11 – EA Canada/EA Sports Halo: Reach – Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios Heavy Rain – Quantic Dream/Sony Computer Entertainment Limbo – Playdead/Playdead Mass Effect 2 – BioWare/Electronic Arts/Microsoft Game Studios Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – Criterion Games/Electronic Arts Red Dead Redemption – Rockstar San Diego/Rockstar Games Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo |

### Academy Fellowship

* Peter Molyneux