The British Academy Video Games Award for Multiplayer is an award presented annually by the

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(BAFTA). It is given in honor of "the best multiplayer game experience, including social, online or offline". The 1st British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony was held in 2004, with

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and

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game ''

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'' winning the award. The award was known as the British Academy Video Games Award for Online Multiplayer for the 2005, 2012 and 2013 ceremonies. Since its inception, the award has been given to eighteen games.

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has received the most awards in this category as both developer and publisher, with three wins. Valve was also nominated on more occasions than any other developer, four times;

is the most nominated publisher, with twelve nominations. '' It Takes Two'', developed by

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and published by

, is the current holder of the award.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per BAFTA convention, and generally correspond to the year of game release in the United Kingdom.

Multiple wins and nominations

Developers

The following developers received two or more Multiplayer awards: The following developers received three or more Multiplayer nominations:

Publishers

The following publishers received two or more Multiplayer awards: The following publishers received three or more Multiplayer nominations:

References

External links

British Academy Video Games Awards official website
{{British Academy Games Awards

Multiplayer A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system ( couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or ...