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"Dara O&amp;#039;Briain doesn&amp;#039;t want to see the gaming BAFTAs televised. The host of the yearly awards said the ceremony &amp;quot;works as it is&amp;quot; and would have to be more pressured if broadcast live.  He explained the difference in atmosphere of the gaming awards compared with last year&amp;#039;s television BAFTAs, which he hosted for the first time, saying it&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;very different experience&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a lot more riding on the television ones because they&amp;#039;re broadcast live to the nation, so in some ways it&amp;#039;s a bigger deal in terms of the production around it,&amp;quot; he told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;This one is a more enjoyable one to do because it is just the people who know all about [the industry]. The television one is surrounded by people who won&amp;#039;t have watched all the television shows. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a lot of glamorous people there, there&amp;#039;s all that hoopla around it that has to be dealt with in its own way. It&amp;#039;s a very different experience, hosting a big, live television show. &amp;gt; Read our full interview with Dara O&amp;#039;Briain discussing this year&amp;#039;s nominees  &amp;quot;[The gaming BAFTAs], because it doesn&amp;#039;t have that, it doesn&amp;#039;t have that pressure, you can be more informal, and you can go, &amp;#039;Hey you!&amp;#039; and point to individual tables and go, &amp;#039;That thing, the guy who got shot in the head? What was that all about?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s much more enjoyable, in a kind of &amp;#039;I know your stuff, you know your stuff [way], let&amp;#039;s have a chat about it&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;With the television one, you have to look past the audience to the cameras, and also the audience are much more nervous and on show in the way that people in this one aren&amp;#039;t. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re obviously nervous about winning awards but they don&amp;#039;t have a camera shoved in their face.&amp;quot;  When asked whether he would like to see the awards televised, he responded: &amp;quot;No, for exactly that reason. &amp;quot;Also, it&amp;#039;s a bit like, I do a show for Dave called Dara&amp;#039;s School of Hard Sums. It&amp;#039;s Dave&amp;#039;s most successful ever commission. &amp;quot;It gets more numbers than anything they&amp;#039;ve ever commissioned. It gets 400-500,000 for an individual showing and that accumulates over the week. If you put it on BBC2 it would get the same 400-500,000 audience, and it would be a disaster. &amp;quot;But these things find their own audience and equally this finds it own audience. Not everything has to be a massive production, this thing works as it is, I think. &amp;quot;If you stick it on television you have to worry about busting extraneous beautiful people because the cameras need to see them, screw that. &amp;quot;This is a celebration of the industry, what the industry does, and I think the industry is very happy with that without pretending it&amp;#039;s something it isn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot;  Journey has been nominated for eight awards at the 2013 video game BAFTAs. It is closely followed by Telltale&amp;#039;s The Walking Dead, which picked up seven nominations including for &amp;#039;Best Game&amp;#039;. Battlefield 3 won the public-voted &amp;#039;GAME Award of 2011&amp;#039; at last year&amp;#039;s BAFTAs, while Portal 2 picked up the award for &amp;#039;Best Game&amp;#039;. The 2013 British Academy Games Awards will be aired on March 5 and streamed live on Twitch. A highlights programme will air on March 11 at 10pm on Challenge. &amp;gt; Digital Spy talks to the BAFTA Video Game Awards 2012 winners - video Watch a video of Jonathan Ross and last year&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Best Game&amp;#039; Portal 2:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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