This is a little bit late, but did anyone else watch the coverage of the videogame BAFTAs on Saturday morning? If so, did you find it toe-curlingly embarrassing? From Vernon Kaye's pitiful presenting (so lifeless and half-hearted it could have been faxed in from the other side of the planet), to the post-award interviews with developers whose painful self-consciousness made Rainman look like a drunken drama student, it was a sobering reposte to those who feel videogames really have made it into mainstream culture.
As for the award-presenters, I don't know which ones were worse - those who clearly knew nothing about games, cared nothing about games, but swallowed their pride and took the cash anyway, or those who felt they had to show solidarity with the videogame industry - 'yeah, I play Ghost Metal Recon! It rocks!'
I switched off after 15 minutes. Anyone else get through the whole thing?
