Wii Sports Gets BAFTA Nominations

Nintendo’s Wii continues to show its dominance. It’s not in sales this time, but in the 2007 BritishAcademy Video Games Awards, where the Wii Sports title received a staggering seven nominations, two more than its nearest competitors.   The game has players participate in several virtualsports, and has proved to be particularily popular with the growing casual gamer segment of the market – as have many Wii titles. It was nominated in the Game of the Tear and Innovationcategories, among others.   God of War 2, Crackdown, Okami, and Gears of War each walked away with five nominations.   The British Academy, which puts on the BAFTA film and televisionawards each year, gives awards in 15 different categories, including The Fellowship, which is given by nomination, but bestowed for outstanding achievement and body of work. According to a statement,the Academy “is now committed to the development of the contemporary art form of video games, and to lending equal weight to its British Academy Video Games Awards as that given to film andtelevision.”   The 2007 awards will take place on October 23 in London.