Surrey gaming companies up for nine horror awards

Two Surrey-based gaming companies are up for a slew of awards for Bafta-nominated game Until Dawn.

The 2015 video game, voiced by actors Rami Malek and Hayden Panettiere, was made by Guildford's Supermassive Games in 2015 and remastered by Ballistic Moon in Woking in 2024.

Supermassive has four nominations and Ballistic Moon has received five ahead of the online The Horror Game Awards on Saturday.

No Time To Die actor Rami Malek is nominated for best performance as Josh in Until Dawn.

Until Dawn has been nominated for most accessible horror game, best survival horror, best narrative and best soundtrack.

The game was originally released by Supermassive in 2015, becoming the second best-selling video game in the UK in its week of release, after Gears of War: Ultimate Edition.

Until Dawn was nominated for a Bafta Games Award in 2016, losing out to Japanese -made Life is Strange.

Developers who worked on the original game went on to Ballistic Moon, where this year they have remastered Until Dawn for PlayStation 5 and Windows.

Steve Goss, Chief Creative Officer at Guildford-based Supermassive Games, says they are "delighted and proud" to see two of their games - including the anticipated Little Nightmares III - in the most anticipated category.

"We can't wait for the horror game community and gaming fans generally to experience both titles in 2025," he said.

Mr Goss has been nominated for a lifetime achievement award while Supermassive is up for the best developer category.

Co-creators Will Penkeyman and Phil Dickens founded The Horror Game Awards in 2022, aiming to "celebrate horror" and "recognise the year's greatest horror games".

"We felt like horror wasn't represented enough," Will said.

"They never get a look in. So then Phil had the question: 'Why don't we just do it ourselves?'"

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