Jonathan Rodd To Host The BAFTA Games Awards 2005

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announces that this year's BAFTA Games Awards will be hosted by multi-BAFTA-winning TV presenter Jonathan Ross. The popular TV host will bring his passion for all things digital to the unveiling of the best video games of the last year. The Awards will be held at the Café Royal on Tuesday, 1st March 2005.

This year has seen some of the most exciting and anticipated video games in the history of the medium. Nominees include Half-Life 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, Burnout 3: Takedown and Halo 2.

Ticket booking forms can be downloaded at http://www.bafta.org/games.htm or phone BAFTA on 020 7734 0022

The Games industry boasts developers with the finest technical expertise, and ground-breaking talent in the field of design creativity. The BAFTA Games Awards give the creative and technical specialists the recognition they deserve; it is their craft which has made the Games business the fastest growing form of entertainment today.

For further information, please contact:

Ben Mason

Fleishman Hillard

40 Long Acre

Covent Garden

London

WC2E 9LG

Tel 0207 395 7061

The British Academy Award is based on a design by Mitzi Cunliffe