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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thatgamecompany Made The Amazing PSN Title flower.

thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen told atendees at GDC last week that they shouldn’t expect a follow-up to hit PSN title flower until 2011.

Speaking to Kotaku, Chen claimed, “2011? We’re not going to have a game by 2011.”

On the GDC award his company won for flower, Chen stated it was not a concern to him.

“For a while… I was caring about the awards. But we’ve got this award before, so. What I care about, actually, is people that played it and how they felt about it.”

No more thatgamecompany excellence until 2011? Disappointing… But also exciting.

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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#2: flower on Playstation 3.

We said: “If you gave us a week we could never fill it with enough words that do flower justice. Thatgamecompany have created one of the most beautifully thought-provoking masterpieces we’ve ever experienced in the medium of gaming.”

Twiggy’s thoughts: “I had a moment playing flower where I felt truly liberated. As the world passed beneath the trail of petals in front of me, I shivered and declared to those around me that the game was probably one of the best I’d ever played. I still stand by that today. flower was so good, it stayed in our preliminary game of the year spot for roughly 10 months.”

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Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Was The Biggest Winner At The VGAs.

Sony snatched five awards at this year’s VGAs. Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the biggest winner, snatching awards for Best Graphics, Best PS3 Game, and the coveted Game Of The Year Award.

PushSquare’s closet favourite, flower, also got a nod, winning the best Independant Game award.

God Of War III rounded out Sony’s sweep, winning the Most Anticipated 2010 award.

Full list of winners after the jump.

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If thatgamecompany Can Better This We'll Shed Tears Of Joy.

We’ve written this once but we’ll happily write it again: flower is still our personal game of the year. thatgamecompany’s master-piece instilled feelings in us that we’ve never felt before whilst playing a video game. It was a momentous piece of game design.

Speaking at the Develop conference in the UK, thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen described the company’s latest work as “a natural progression”.

While there were little details to go on from his discussion on the game, he did state that concepts take years to go into full production. So perhaps it’ll be a little while before we actually get to see anything of the game.