Meet the winners of the 2026 UK Video Game Awards

5th March 2026, 8pm: The UK Video Game Awards 2026 convened industry leaders and games businesses to celebrate the exceptional talent that propels the UK’s video games sector.  

This year’s awards mark the launch of Made in the UK, a campaign celebrating the breadth and brilliance of video games developed across the country and the contribution they make to culture, society and the economy. 

Across the UK, thousands of talented people are creating video games that are played and loved by millions around the world. These are stories imagined here, worlds built here, and innovations developed here, showcasing the very best of the industry. 

The winners celebrated tonight are the standard of what British studios can achieve, and exactly the kind of success stories this campaign exists to tell. 

Award Recipients: 

• Ukie Game of the Year: Battlefield 6 (Criterion – A Battlefield Studio)Guildford-based Criterion Games demonstrated technical ambition and creative leadership on one of games’ most iconic franchises, proving British studios remain at the forefront of AAA development. 

• Best UK Console Game: Atomfall (Rebellion) – Rebellion’s Oxford-based team delivered a distinctly British open-world experience set in an alternate-history 1960s England, standing out for its atmospheric storytelling, compelling gameplay and impressive production values, having attracted over 2.5 million in the opening fortnight. 

• Best UK Mobile Game: PowerWash Simulator (FuturLab) – Brighton-based FuturLab successfully brought their cult simulation hit to mobile, maintaining the charm and addictive quality of the original while opening the game up to an entirely new audience. 

• Best UK PC Game: Battlefield 6 (Criterion – A Battlefield Studio) 

• Best UK Mixed Reality Game: Train Sim World VR: New York (Just Add Water and Dovetail Games) – Just Add Water and Dovetail Games delivered an immersive VR adaptation of the popular Train Sim World series, pushing the boundaries of what simulation games can achieve in the immersive tech space.

• Best UK User Generated Content (UGC): King of Meat (Glowmade) – Guildford-based Glowmade built a richly crafted co-operative dungeon-brawler with creative community tools that empower every player to design and share their own content. 

• Best UK Developer: nDreams – Farnborough-based nDreams showed a bold and consistent commitment to high-quality VR development, cementing their place at the cutting edge of spatial computing and immersive experience. 

• Best UK Publisher: Playstack – London-based Playstack championed independent and mid-sized developers with genuine expertise and care, helping a diverse slate of UK-developed titles find success on the global stage. 

• Rising Star: Tanglewood Games – Tanglewood Games showed exceptional creative promise and ambition early in their journey, and put itself on the map as one the best Unreal engine engineering studios in the world 

• Sustainability Champion: PlanetPlay – PlanetPlay embedded environmental responsibility into gaming culture, linking in-game activity to real-world sustainability outcomes and positioning the games industry as a force for positive change. 

• Diversity and Inclusion Champion: Limit Break – Limit Break made a meaningful and practical impact on representation across the UK games industry, opening doors and shifting culture to better reflect the diversity of the players it serves. Since founding in 2019, it has quickly become the biggest mentorship programme for games professionals in the UK. 

• Best UK Service Supplier: YRS TRULY – YRS TRULY delivered exceptional creative quality and strategic expertise across marketing and production, proving an indispensable partner for games brands looking to connect with audiences in impactful ways.