The voting is now open for Ultimate Game of the Year and Best Game Adaptation in the Golden Joystick Awards. If you’ve been wanting an opportunity to vote for your favorite game this year, the Golden Joystick Awards is the perfect opportunity. There are plenty of categories to vote in this year, and you can choose from categories such as Best Indie Game, Studio of the Year, and New Best Audio Design. In total, there are 21 categories to vote in this year, and as mentioned by Daniel Dawkins, this year has seen the most votes ever in their initial round of categories.
In a statement made by Daniel Dawkins, the Content Director of Games, Video, and Digital Events, he said that there has been “a record ten million+ votes in our initial round of categories… Ultimate Game of the Year is our most prestigious award which sits in its own voting window from November 4 to November 8, allowing the judging panel more time to assess the big winter releases.”
Although this year has been somewhat quiet in terms of big releases, it has also seen the release of iconic games such as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Tekken 8, and even games like Balatro and Satisfactory becoming big hits. In a world where people didn’t have faith in the Silent Hill 2 remake, it was released and was done justice by Bloober Team and Konami, who knocked it out of the park. There are a lot of fantastic games to choose from on the nominations list for Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards, and here are all of the nominees for it:
- Animal Well
- Astro Bot
- Balatro
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Helldivers 2
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Satisfactory
- Silent Hill 2
- Tekken 8
In addition to the Ultimate Game of the Year award, you can now vote for the Best Game Adaptation, where you’ve seen your favorite characters and franchises come to life on the big screen. Here are the nominations for that category in the Golden Joystick Awards:
- Borderlands
- Fallout
- Halo Season 2
- Knuckles
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
The Golden Joy Stick Awards will be taking place on November 21, where it will be live via YouTube, Twitch, Steam, Facebook, X, the Future Games Show, GamesRadar, PC Gamer, and TechRadar Gaming, offering you a multitude of places to watch it. If you don’t want to sit through the awards, the winners will be announced on social media as the ceremony progresses, so you don’t have to miss a beat.
