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Lara Croft voted most iconic video game character
Lara Croft has been named the most iconic video game character of all time to mark the 20th Bafta Games Awards. It's been 28 years since Tomb Raider introduced gamers to Lara and she's changed quite a bit in that time. "She's gone from being very pointy and childlike in drawing to very filmic," says Shelley Blond, the actress who voiced the original Lara. The character beat the likes of Mario and Sonic for the title in a poll of gamers. Shelley tells BBC Newsbeat she's not surprised, even though she admits she's never played the game herself.
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Stray and God of War Ragnarök lead nominations at Bafta games awards
The nominees for this year's Bafta Games Awards have been announced, with God of War Ragnarök and Stray leading the field. This will be the 19th year that Bafta has honoured the work of the games industry with an awards ceremony, which will be held on 30 March. Sony's PlayStation 5 big-hitters God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Forbidden West are prominent, nominated in 11 and 6 categories respectively. Stray, a French game about a cat stuck in an underground robot settlement, is up for nine awards, and FromSoftware's 20m-selling open-world masterpiece Elden Ring is up for eight. Tunic, a homage to classic adventure games, is in with a chance at five awards.
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