On March 13, the British Academy revealed that the BAFTA Games Awards had became one of the first major awards ceremonies on the creative industry’s calendar to be impacted by the coronavirus crisis.
It may not have been wholly unexpected given the event's date of April 2 and a planet grappling with what the World Health Organization had just a day earlier officially declared to be a global pandemic.
Festivals and markets across film and TV were being pulled en masse, with L.A.'s E3 conference becoming the largest casualty within the video games sector.
But rather than cancel or postpone the awards, as many others were doing, the British Academy took a different approach, insisting that the show would still go on, albeit in a different.
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