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Astro Bot dominates Bafta Games Awards with five wins including best game
Astro Bot has scooped up top prizes at both the Bafta Games Awards and The Game Awards. Safe to say, it’s now officially recognised as the best game of 2024. What’s striking is how simple it is. No deep dive into the human condition, no ground-breaking gameplay, no cultural deep roots.
Astro Bot dominates surprisingly unsurprising BAFTA Games Awards
Indie card game Balatro won the Debut Game category. With its solo developer LocalThunk maintaining his anonymity, the award was accepted by actor Ben Starr (Clive Rosfield in Final Fantasy 16) in his guise as the scary human incarnation of Balatro ’s iconic Joker, Jimbo.
Recent comments from PlayStation higher-ups have stoked the flames for a potential adaptation of Astro Bot, either as a film or as a potential TV series. Reactions were, of course, mixed.
It’s just in and the public has voted! Astro Bot has won five BAFTA AWARDS, yep you read that right FIVE. The BAFTA Awards a coming to a close and they are choosing the winners for each category ...
Team Asobi's Astro Bot didn't entirely hog the limelight, however. Balatro, by developer LocalThunk, took the top spot in the Debut Game category, while Coal Supper's superb comedy oddity Thank ...
Sony is looking to adapt Astro Bot into a movie or TV series due to its success and established audience. Video game adaptations have seen positive changes as movies and TV shows have improved to ...
And Astro Bot, which follows the tiny, cute Astro as he goes about a series of different platforming levels to save his friends, really is a gem of a game: it scooped all manner of 5-star ...
Gamers all have their opinions about what is the best game available today, but only one game can call itself the 2024 Game of the Year winner as decided at the Game Awards, and it’s Astro Bot.
Among Astro Bot's haul was the top prize of the night - best game Astro Bot has swept this year's Bafta Games Awards, winning five awards in total - including the top prize of best game.
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