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Batman: Arkham Asylum Takes Best Game BAFTA

Rocksteady's Dark Knight takes two Video Games Awards and Uncharted 2 takes four, while Shigeru Miyamoto is honoured with an Academy Fellowship.

Rocksteady's dark knight takes two Video Games Awards and Uncharted 2 takes four, while Shigeru Miyamoto is honoured with an Academy Fellowship.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

was up for eight of the 13 awards and along with Best Game took Gameplay, while Uncharted 2 was up for ten and won Story, Use of Audio, Action and Original Score. Other winners include LittleBigPlanet for PSP for Handheld, Flower for Artistic Achievement, Wii Sports Resort Family for Social Game And Family, and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 taking the GAME Award of 2009, which was voted for by the public.

Also honoured during the ceremony, hosted by comedian Dara Ó Brien, was Shigeru Miyamoto, who received the Academy Fellowship.

The full list of winners follows:

Action Game: Uncharted 2
Family & Social Game: Wii Sports Resort
Use of Online: FIFA 10
Artistic Achievement: Flower
Best Game: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Gameplay: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Handheld: LBP PSP
Multiplayer: Left 4 Dead 2
Original Score: Uncharted 2
Sports: FIFA 10
Story: Uncharted 2
Strategy: Empire: Total War
Use of Audio: Uncharted 2
BAFTA Ones To Watch Award (presented by David Braben): Shrunk! by The Butterflyers
GAME Award of 2009 (voted for by the public): Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Second place was Assassin’s Creed 2, and Uncharted 2 took third.
Academy Fellow: Shigeru Miyamoto