{"id":64872,"date":"2018-11-26T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/mario_plus_rabbids_wins_best_game_at_bafta_childrens_awards"},"modified":"2018-11-26T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:10:00","slug":"mario-rabbids-wins-best-game-at-bafta-childrens-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/mario-rabbids-wins-best-game-at-bafta-childrens-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario + Rabbids Wins Best Game At BAFTA Children&#8217;s Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bdea1a376099b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bdea1a376099b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Mario And Rabbids\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bdea1a376099b\/mario-and-rabbids.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bdea1a376099b\/mario-and-rabbids.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario And Rabbids\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In October, Ubisoft&#8217;s Nintendo Switch title <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong> was <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/mario_plus_rabbids_nominated_for_best_game_at_bafta_childrens_awards\">nominated<\/a> for &#8216;best game&#8217; at the British Academy Children&#8217;s Awards alongside three PlayStation titles including <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/everybodys_golf\">Everybody&#8217;s Golf<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/frantics\">Frantics<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/knack_2\">Knack 2<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Ubisoft&#8217;s collaborative efforts with Nintendo have been worthwhile, as the title has now officially been awarded the &#8216;best video game&#8217; at this year&#8217;s BAFTA Children&#8217;s Awards. Below is the announcement:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So many great games, but there can only be one winner &#8211; congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ubisoft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ubisoft<\/a>&#8216;s Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BAFTAChildrensAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BAFTAChildrensAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BAFTAKids?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BAFTAKids<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1BWh0sfBe9\">pic.twitter.com\/1BWh0sfBe9<\/a><\/span>\u2014 BAFTA (@BAFTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAFTA\/status\/1066800079481245696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As we previously noted, plenty of love went into this title during development, as the game&#8217;s director Davide Soliani has been a lifelong fan of Nintendo. You might even recall how he teared up at E3 2017 when Shigeru Miyamoto came out on stage to present the tactical turn-based RPG to the world. <em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you expect Mario + Rabbids to win this award? Have you played this game yourself yet? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, Ubisoft&#8217;s Nintendo Switch title Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was nominated for &#8216;best game&#8217; at the British Academy Children&#8217;s Awards alongside three PlayStation titles including Everybody&#8217;s Golf, Frantics and Knack 2. It appears Ubisoft&#8217;s collaborative efforts with Nintendo have been worthwhile, as the title has now officially been awarded the &#8216;best video game&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}