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Call of Duty: Black Ops takes public-voted BAFTA

Mass Effect 2 wins game of the year, Heavy Rain picks up three awards

Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the only public-voted category in the GAME British Academy Video Game Awards, with over 110,000 consumers casting their votes.

EA and BioWare's Mass Effect 2 won the award for best game, presented at 195 Piccadilly in London this evening.

Sony and Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain took three awards, for technical achievement, story and use of audio, while Sony Santa Monica won the artistic achievement gong for God of War III.

Codemasters received the best sports game award for F1 2010 and Criteron's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit claimed the best multiplayer award.

Lionhead's Peter Molyneux was awarded the BAFTA Academy Fellowship, joining fellow game makers Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto and Will Wright.

The BAFTA winners follow:

Action

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Artistic Achievement

God of War III

Best Game

Mass Effect 2

Family

Kinect Sports

Gameplay

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Handheld

Cut the Rope

Multiplayer

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Original Music

Heavy Rain

Social Network Game

My Empire

Sports

F1 2010

Story

Heavy Rain

Strategy

Civilization V

Technical Innovation

Heavy Rain

Use of Audio

Battlefield: Bad Company: 2

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital

Twang!

GAME Award of 2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops

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