{"id":22813,"date":"2026-04-22T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/the-bafta-games-awards-showed-me-again-that-honouring-art-over-commerce-is-a-win-for-all\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:37:18","slug":"the-bafta-games-awards-showed-me-again-that-honouring-art-over-commerce-is-a-win-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/the-bafta-games-awards-showed-me-again-that-honouring-art-over-commerce-is-a-win-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bafta games awards showed me again that honouring art over commerce is a win for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

From mega hit Clair Obscur to the genius Blue Prince, the winners at this year\u2019s event help me refocus on why games really matter<\/p>\n

The 22nd Bafta game awards were on Friday, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the biggest game prize. This makes it only the second game ever (after Baldur\u2019s Gate 3) to win top prize at all five of the main awards shows: the Dice awards in Vegas; the Game awards in LA; the public-voted Golden Joysticks in the UK; the Game Developers Choice awards in San Francisco; and now London\u2019s Baftas, the final event to celebrate the gaming output of 2025.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest: I was hoping for a different winner. Blue Prince<\/a>, an eight-year project by the visual artist and former film-maker Tonda Ros, is the most extraordinary thing I played last year. It\u2019s the game where you inherit a sprawling mansion that changes shape every day, and you must navigate its ever-shifting blueprint to find its secret room. I went so deep on this game that I was still playing it and thinking about it weeks after solving its initial mystery, piecing together bits of opaque lore from Reddit threads. I think it deserved at least one best game award (apart from ours<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\nFrom mega hit Clair Obscur to the genius Blue Prince, the winners at this year\u2019s event help me refocus on why games really matter
\nThe 22nd Bafta game awards were on Friday, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the biggest game prize. This makes it only the second game ever (after Baldur\u2019s Gate 3) to win top prize at all five of the main awards shows: the Dice awards in Vegas; the Game awards in LA; the public-voted Golden Joysticks in the UK; the Game Developers Choice awards in San Francisco; and now London\u2019s Baftas, the final event to celebrate the gaming output of 2025.
\nI\u2019ll be honest: I was hoping for a different winner. Blue Prince, an eight-year project by the visual artist and former film-maker Tonda Ros, is the most extraordinary thing I played last year. It\u2019s the game where you inherit a sprawling mansion that changes shape every day, and you must navigate its ever-shifting blueprint to find its secret room. I went so deep on this game that I was still playing it and thinking about it weeks after solving its initial mystery, piecing together bits of opaque lore from Reddit threads. I think it deserved at least one best game award (apart from ours). Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From mega hit Clair Obscur to the genius Blue Prince, the winners at this year\u2019s event help me refocus on why games really matter The 22nd Bafta game awards were on Friday, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the biggest game prize. This makes it only the second game ever (after Baldur\u2019s Gate 3) to …<\/p>\n

The Bafta games awards showed me again that honouring art over commerce is a win for all<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}