Batman: Arkham Asylum Won The Best Game Gong At The BAFTAs, Despite Uncharted 2 Taking Home Four Awards.

There’s something a little iffy about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves’ denial of Best Game during last night’s video game BAFTAs. Despite beating everything to win four gongs at last night’s awards show, Batman: Arkham Asylum managed to walk away with the Best Game gong — despite being beaten by Uncharted 2 in numerous other characters. Don’t get us wrong, Batman’s a great game, but we can’t help but feel its British development roots allowed it to take the award it really probably shouldn’t have.

We’ve got the full list of winners after the jump, with honourable mentions going to flower and LittleBigPlanet PSP, who took the Artistic Achievement and Handheld awards respectively.

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Games Are Going To Win BAFTAs Tomorrow. Here's Who We Think's Gonna Win.

Guess what? It’s the BAFTAs tomorrow night. And that means all the glamorous folks involved in putting together the games you loved last year will be heading to the red-carpet to (hopefully) collect a copious number of gongs. We’ve teamed up with VoucherCodes.co.uk to bring you our definitive list of predictions ahead of tomorrow’s big event. Remember, if you see any game on our list you’ve not bought yet, VoucherCodes.co.uk might just have the Amazon code you need to get it for a steal.

Hit the jump for our full list of predictions.

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Was The Big Winner At The GDC Awards.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the big winner at the GDC awards last night, scooping a total of five gongs — one for the coveted game of the year accolade.

It won awards for Best Writing, Best Technology, Best Visual Arts and Best Audio, but Batman: Arkham Asylum stole the award for Best Design. thatgamecompany also won in the Best Downloadable Game category, with flower rounding out six gongs for Playstation 3 exclusives.

Full list of categories and winners are after the jump.

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Batman: Arkham Asylum. Literally Life-Changing For The Folks At Rocksteady No Doubt.

Good grief Rocksteady. First you were an unknown, developing a game published by Eidos. Then all of a sudden you’re winning awards and being bought by Warner Bros. Just shows what happens when your studio make an amazing game.

That’s right, newly crowned big boys Rocksteady have been bought by Warner Bros, and are currently hard at work on a sequel to Arkham Asylum. Rocksteady’s games director Sefton Hill was delighted about the news, claiming: “The Rocksteady team is very much looking forward to creating more great games based on widely recognized Warner Bros. brands like Batman.”

Crikey. This is great news for British development too as, if you didn’t know, Rocksteady are British.

Game Of The Year Edition Time, Bats.

Well whadda’ya’know? It’s that time of the year again when all those good games from last year start getting repackaged and sold at full price in new, highly valued, Game Of The Year editions.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is the first to be outed; with the BBFC holding a classification for a game of the year edition. Usually these packs include some package DLC, but outside of two free PSN downloads and the Playstation’s Joker content; there have only been two scarce challenge maps: the GameStop pre-order bonus “Dem Bones” and the Collector’s Edition’s “Crime Alley”. While it’s very likely the game of the year DLC will pack in such content as standard, we’d expect a little more.

Perhaps something new, a making-of DVD, or some skins for Bats? Guess we’ll find out soon enough.

#3: Batman: Arkham Asylum on Playstation 3.

We said: “It’s blissfully evident that developers Rocksteady were not content with crafting the best ever Batman experience. Indeed, Batman: Arkham Asylum is not just the single-most worthy superhero title, it also stands next to Goldeneye aloft the dizzying heights of best ever licensed game too.”

Twiggy’s thoughts: “Talk about out of nowhere: Arkham Asylum came from way out in left-field. Who expected a Batman game (of all) by an unknown developer to end up this highly praised? If you did, give yourself a pat on the back.”

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Get Voting For Your Favourite Games In The VGAs.

It’s time to get voting for Spike TV’s annual VGA awards show. The nominees are out and the contenders for game of the year include Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The Playstation 3 exclusive will go up against Batman: Arkham Asylum, Left 4 Dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2.

Naughty Dog are also up for the award of best studio, with Uncharted 2 popping up in tons of other categories aswell. Make your votes known right here folks.