Bafta Games Awards: Outer Wilds wins Best Game...

Action-adventure game Outer Wilds has won the prestigious Best Game prize at the 16th annual Bafta Games Awards.

The title's writer Kelsey Beachum credited its players saying: "Word of mouth has been essential in getting people to play the game, you're all really beautiful"'

The game where you explore a distant galaxy under threat from an exploding star claimed three awards in total.

It also won in the best design and original property categories..

It was a successful night for role-playing detective game Disco Elysium which also picked up three awards - winning in the best music, debut game and best narrative categories.

This year's award ceremony had to be pre-recorded because of coronavirus restrictions.

Host Dara O'Briain pulled the strings from his house with every nominee required to submit a winne

There was disappointment for mysterious adventure game Control.

It had 11 nominations going into the event and only won once.

Martti Sussalo was rewarded for his role in the supernatural title - he picked up a golden mask in the performer in a supporting role category.

Call of Duty: Mobile won the EE Mobile Game of the Year, the only award to be voted for by the public

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Best British Game was awarded to sci-fi thriller Observation. John McKellan, its creative director, spoke to Newsbeat after the ceremony saying: "Winning a BAFTA is a huge thing.

"What it's done for us is give us the confidence to know that we're doing something right. To have that seal of approval after being judged by your peers is a big confidence booster."

John also discussed how the coronavirus crisis could impact gaming in the near future: "Pre-recording an acceptance speech is probably one of the weirdest things I've ever done!

"This industry is kind of lucky because we can do the majority of our work from home, but there are some aspects of it that will be impacted.

"But things like motion capture and voiceover recordings can't really happen at the moment.

"We can't get around some things which I think will have quite a big ripple effect over the next six months"