With the London Games Festival well underway, The British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) concluded its British Academy Video Game Awards night leaving Nintendo with complete bragging rights for one full year. Nintendo's Wii Sports held up against all competition in six categories and was crowned king in Casual, Gameplay, Innovation, Multiplayer, Sports, and Strategy and Simulation.

Microsoft's Crackdown took three titles home, while SCEE's God of War 2 and Capcom's Okami snagged two apiece. The Best Game Award went to 2K Games' BioShock, while on user-voted front, the PC World Gamers Award went to SEGA's Football Manager 2007. Sims creator Will Wright was inducted to the Academy Fellowship, where he joins the likes of Steven Spielberg and Charlie Chaplin.

The full list of winners begins at the full article!

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Buy: [ Football Manager 2007 (PC) ]

We're just letting the gamers there who own a copy of Football Manager: 2007 that something's cooking at the home site. And if you're wondering which console's getting new goodies this Christmas, it's for the PSP, Xbox 360, Mac and the PC. The main site's just announced updates relating to these consoles, and to give you guys a brief breakdown:

• PC and Mac: The patch 7.0.1 for your copy of the games are now ready for downloading.
• Tutorial videos: Just getting started? The site's now hosting several videos to help you guys along, and all will be narrated by Sports Interactive's Mike Jacobson. There are 13 video in total: Nine for the PC/Mac, and 4 for the Xbox 360 crowd.
• PSP: The guys with the portable get two new Football Manager Handheld 2007 wall papers over at the site. Just check around - they're there.

There's more site updates to come as Christmas kicks in, so keep your eyes peeled. Season's greetings, guys.

Sega Europe has released a Football Manager 2007 Patch v7.01 for the PC Mac and Intel Mac versions. Football Manager 2007 gives gamers a chance to experience the gastric-acid inducing job of a team manager with amazing realistic experience. But, and this is the fun part, without being booed and clobbered with empty beer cans by angry fans for making stupid decisions that cost the game.

The patch fixes a number of issues which affect a small amount of users. If you're one of the few gamers having problems with your copy, the patch is saved game compatible. However, a new game should be started to get the full effects of the patch. Some of the changes in Football Manager 2007 v7.01 Patch include:

• Fixed wrong player listed in international Set Friendly Instructions for replacement players.
• Fixed a display bug with the teams table on MLS manager’s achievements screen.
• Fixed player milestones declaring that a player was about to make a landmark appearance (e.g. 50th league appearance) for a club when in fact it was his debut.
• Fixed When you move a player to your reserve squad for the option is no longer available once this time period is complete, or when you manually moved him back to the first-team.
• Fixed when you move a player to the reserves for and then go on holiday, he comes back straight away.
• Fixed morale being too high across the board.

For the complete details of the various tweaks, updates and bug/crash fixes, please refer to the Football Manager 2007 v7.01 Patch changelog file available for download. If you happen to love Football Manager 2007 and would like to get the patch, they're available for download at the link below.

Download: [Football Manager 2007 v7.01 Patch changelog]

It's coming home. Football's coming home. Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2007 is out on PC and Mac, and it's at the top of both the all-format and PC charts in the UK. And according to their press release, it's "becoming the third fastest selling PC [game] ever." They're talking UK charts, we suppose, but that's a big accomplishment (more about how the game is doing in the U.S. and internationally later).

PSP and 360. As for Football Manager Handheld 2007 for PSP and Football Manager 2007 for the Xbox 360, Sega has shared the release date of December 1, 2006 for both. Handheld for the PSP has international management and multiple scouts and lots of new leagues to choose from (including Australian and Portuguese leagues). Manager for the Xbox 360 has Xbox Live Vision camera support and a Fantasy Draft mode - not to mention 50 achievements to challenge everybody.

This game has been a success story. Many Americans really aren't into "soccer", but for the rest of the world, "football" or "futbol" or whatever is the game of the world - much like football's World Cup is the "cup of life" when journalists are feeling poetic or when your mates have just finished singing a round of "Three Lions on a shirt Jules Rimet still gleaming..."

Strong sales. On Amazon.com, Sega of America's U.S. and Canadian version (Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007) is currently number eight on the top 10 best sellers for PC (it's sometimes higher on the list). And that's at Amazon.com - so it gives us an idea of how the game is selling (Amazon.com is "Amazon U.S." if you're looking at it from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.co.jp, but Amazon.com is really kind of like "Amazon for the whole world" because it's Amazon.com that many people go to if they're not in the UK, Japan, or those other countries with "local" Amazons). In Amazon.co.uk, the game's been hovering around the top three slots.

High praise. With the game being called "a revelation" by a EuroGamer writer (giving it a 9/10 score), an IGN UK writer warns you to "be prepared for a serious lack of social life after it's installed on your hard drive" (and gives it a 9.3/10). The game also got 4/5 from "Maxim" and 5/5 from both "The Times" and the "Sunday Times."