O Golden Joystick Awards, apresentado pelo GamesRadar, chegou à sua 40ª edição. Isso mesmo, celebrando a indústria de videogames desde 1983, essa é a premiação mais longa no ramo.
Os vencedores das escolhas do público estão em negrito, no topo de cada categoria.
Categorias votadas pelos críticos do painel de jurados
Breakthrough Award
- Vampire Survivors
Critics' Choice Award
- Elden Ring
Best Performer
- Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel, Immortality)
Categorias votadas pelo público
Ultimate Game of the Year
- Elden Ring
- Immortality
- Gran Turismo 7
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Teardown
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
- Neon White
- God of War Ragnarok
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Return to Monkey Island
- Bayonetta 3
Best Audio
- Metal: Hellsinger
- We Are OFK
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- Gran Turismo 7
- OlliOlli World
Best Storytelling
- Horizon Forbidden West
- IMMORTALITY
- Return to Monkey Island
- NORCO
- I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
- Wayward Strand
Best Game Community:
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Dreams
- GRID Legends
- No Man’s Sky
- Splatoon 3
- Warframe
Best Game Expansion
- Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
- GTA Online: The Contract
- Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
- Total War: Warhammer III - Immortal Empires
Best Gaming Hardware
- Steam Deck
- Playdate
- Analogue Pocket
- Backbone One: PlayStation Edition
- Roccat Kone XP
- WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5
Best Indie Game
- Cult of the Lamb
- Tunic
- Rollerdrome
- Dorfromantik
- Neon White
- Teardown
Best Multiplayer Game
- Elden Ring
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- MultiVersus
- Splatoon 3
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Best Visual Design
- Elden Ring
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Cult of the Lamb
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Lost in Play
Most Wanted Game
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Dead Island 2
- Forspoken
- Street Fighter 6
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Starfield
- Exoprimal
- Redfall
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Mass Effect
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kerbal Space Program 2
- Dead Space
Nintendo Game of the Year
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Live A Live
- Splatoon 3
- Nintendo Switch Sports
PC Game of the Year
- Return to Monkey Island
- Neon White
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Teardown
- Total War: Warhammer 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
PlayStation Game of the Year
- Stray
- Gran Turismo 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Elden Ring
- The Last Of Us Part I
- Sifu
Xbox Game of the Year
- Grounded
- Halo Infinite
- Scorn
- As Dusk Falls
- Sniper Elite 5
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
Still Playing
- Genshin Impact
- The Sims 4
- Destiny 2
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Minecraft
- Fortnite
- Pokémon GO
- Apex Legends
- Lost Ark
- The Elder Scrolls Online
Studio of the Year
- FromSoftware
- Roll7
- Terrible Toybox
- Half Mermaid
- Interior / Night
- Tribute Games
Best Early Access Launch
- Slime Rancher 2
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Dune: Spice Wars
- Core Keeper
- Vampire Survivors
- Gloomwood
Best Game Trailer
- Goat Simulator 3 Announcement Trailer
- The Callisto Protocol The Truth of Black Iron Trailer
- skate. Still Working On It Trailer
- Bloody Hell Hotel Reveal Trailer
- Time Flies Announcement Trailer
- Alan Wake 2 Reveal Trailer
Fonte: GamesRadar