Rocket League, The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, others up for BAFTA Best Game Award

Nominees for the 2016 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) has been announced.

Best game nominations are The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Life is Strange
and Rocket League.

Including the Best game category, Rapture developer The Chinese Room is up for nine awards total, ten if you count the two performer nominees included in the same category. But we'll stick with nine.

The Witcher 3 and Her Story are both up for seven awards, and fiver nominees each have been handed to Life is Strange, Rocket League and Arkham Knight. Mark Hamill is up for a performance of year award for his role of Joker in the latter.

The BAFTA Awards will be hosted by Dara O'Briain and the ceremony take place on April 7 in London.

Full list of nominees are below.

Best Game

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Life is Strange
Rocket League
Fallout 4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Game Design

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Rocket League
Grow Home
Bloodborne
Her Story
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Multiplayer

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Destiny: The Taken King
World of Warships
Rocket League
Splatoon

Story

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Life is Strange
Until Dawn
Undertale
Her Story
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Sports

Forza Motorsport 6
DiRT Rally
Football Manager
FIFA 16
Rocket League
PES 2016

Persistent Game

Destiny: The Taken King
Final Fantasy XIV Online
LEGO Dimensions
Guitar Hero: Live
Prison Architect
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Performer

Oliver Dimsdale – Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Stephen Appleton)
Merle Dandridge – Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Kate Collins)
Mark Hamill – Batman: Arkham Knight (The Joker)
Ashly Burch – Life is Strange (Chloe Price)
Masasa Moyo – Broken Age: Act 2 (Vella)
Doug Cockle – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Witcher)

Original Property

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Ori and the Blind Forest
Life is Strange
Splatoon
Her Story
Until Dawn

Music

Batman: Arkham Knight
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Halo V: Guardians
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Ori and the Blind Forest
Fallout 4

British Game

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Batman: Arkham Knight
Prison Architect
Tearaway Unfolded
Until Dawn
Her Story

Debut Game

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Her Story
Prune
Ori and the Blind Forest
Mini Metro
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Family

Disney Infinity 3.0: Play Without Limits
Guitar Hero: Live
Super Mario Maker
Rocket League
FIFA 16
LEGO Dimensions

AMD eSports Audience Award (vote here)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft
League Of Legends
Dota 2
Smite
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3

Artistic Achievement

Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Ori and the Blind Forest
Batman: Arkham Knight
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Audio Achievement

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Batman: Arkham Knight
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Star Wars Battlefront
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Mobile & Handheld

Prune
Fallout Shelter
Lara Croft GO
Alphabear
Her Story
The Room Three

Game Innovation

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Her Story
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Life is Strange
Until Dawn
Splatoon