The accolades for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance continue to mount! Midway Games has just announced that MK:DA has been nominated for an award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in the Action Category! From the press release:
Midway Games Ltd. (NYSE: MWY), a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance has been nominated in the Action category for the 2003 BAFTA Interactive Entertainment awards.

"Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance took gamers by storm in 2003, and the fact that it sold-through over 2 million units worldwide proves the franchise is continuing to define the fighting genre." Said Matt Broughton, European Marketing Director, Midway. "We are delighted to be nominated for a BAFTA in the Action category, sitting along-side the likes of
GTA: Vice City and Metroid Prime."
The 2003 BAFTA Games awards ceremony will take place on February 25th, 2004.

To read the press release in its entirety, click here. To see the complete list of nominees in all categories, click here. Our congratulations to Midway on being nominated for this award, and we at MK5.ORG wish them the best of luck!

Our thanks to MK5.ORG reader Ivan Georgiev and Phil Robinson of Midway Games for the heads-up on this story!