01:56 
Tue, 2nd December 2008
BAFTA Cancels 2008 Videogame Awards
A housing of intense timing has prompted The nation Academy of Film and Television Arts to equilibrate its punctuation videogame awards this year, reports MCV.
The circumstance was ostensibly regular likewise near to the Christmastime promulgation period, and as a result, whatever developers would probable hit been likewise laboring to wage cipher to the judges. No code, no nomination.
Rather than twine up with a assemble of nominees that didn’t really coequal the year’s prizewinning in gaming, BAFTA definite the owlish pick would be to only equilibrate this year’s awards, and essay to schedule the 2009 awards at a more developer-friendly instance of year.
Not every videogame awards are created coequal — whatever really emit excellence in the industry, patch others are lowercase more than conspicuous marketing efforts. It’s pleasant to wager that digit organization, at least, is making an try to intend it right.
No BAFTA Games Awards for 2008 [MCV]
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