First annual speech from Fellowship honouree and creator of The Sims

Wright to present BAFTA videogame lecture

BAFTA has announced that next week Will Wright will be presenting the Academy’s first annual videogame lecture.

Earlier this week it was announced that Wright was the first games industry figure to be granted a BAFTA fellowship.

The subject of the lecture has been chosen by Will himself and is ‘Interactive Entertainment – the Oldest Art Form’.

The talk takes place on the evening of October 24th and
is followed by a Q&A session.

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