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Multi-Award Winning Writer, Filmmaker, Comedian and Presenter Danny Wallace To Host New Award Categories For 2015
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The world’s most popular and credible games awards, the Golden Joystick Awards today announced the shortlist for its 2015 ceremony with public voting now open at www.goldenjoystick.com, and each voter will receive a copy of BioShock Infinite for PC from Green Man Gaming (GMG)*.
Taking place on the afternoon of Friday 30 October at the indigO2 in the world famous O2 Arena in London, it celebrates the very best in the gaming industry. The Golden Joystick Awards, powered by GamesRadar+, is the only annual awards voted for by gamers, and in 2014 an incredible nine million people cast their votes.
Now in its 33rd year, the 2015 awards have 24 categories with 21 being publicly voted, with the additional special awards being chosen by an expert panel consisting of Future plc’s editorial teams. The awards recognise every aspect of the world of gaming and this year sees a plethora of new awards that represent the ever changing landscape of gaming. These are the panel selected Critics Choice and Breakthrough Awards, as well as the publicly voted Performance, Playstation Game, Xbox Game, Nintendo Game, PC Game, eSports Icon, Family Game and Handheld / Mobile Game of the Year.
Sony’s dark, brutally tough adventure game, which was awarded a mighty 4.5 out of 5 by GamesRadar+, Bloodbourne, is this year’s most nominated game with nine, including the coveted Game of the Year and Best Gaming Moment. Sam Barlow’s unique and acclaimed Her Story has eight nominations that include the hat-trick of Game of the Year, Best Original Game and Best Indie Game of the Year. Batman: Arkham Knight, the latest in Warner’s stunning superhero series, receives seven nominations as does Life is Strange.
The other games receiving multiple award nominations include Microsoft’s Ori and the Blind Forest up for six, EA’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, Nintendo’s Splatoon and Namco Bandai’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are up for five. Kerbal Space Program and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate both get the nod with four nominations each. Alien Isolation and Sunset Overdrive receive three.
A full list of categories and nominations are listed below.
The multi-award winning writer, filmmaker, comedian and presenter, Danny Wallace, is to host the awards for the first time this year. An avid gamer, Danny played Shaun Hastings in the Assassin’s Creed series as well as narrating indie game Thomas Was Alone in which he picked up a British Academy Games Award for ‘Performance’.
Danny Wallace says, “The Golden Joysticks is a legendary event, voted for by the gamers themselves, and as a gamer, games actor and former games journalist I’m delighted to have been asked to host. These are exciting times for video games. Sonic vs Mario. Double Dragon. Talk of ‘the Mega CD’. But who or what will walk away with an award? I’m looking forward to it all immensely.”
Dan Dawkins, Future plc’s Editor-in-Chief of Gaming says, “This year’s nominations really show the scale and diversity of modern gaming, with a daring, smaller-scale, interactive movie like Her Story competing side-by-side with a mega-budget AAA blockbuster like Batman Arkham Knight.
“Danny Wallace’s credentials need little introduction, and I’m delighted he’s hosting this year’s awards. In fact, When I started in the industry in 2000 on PSM2 magazine, Danny used to write our ‘Last Laugh’ page, setting up a real-life dating profile for Tekken’s Yoshimitsu.”
The Golden Joystick Awards shortlist was chosen by an editorial panel comprised of Future games staff from publications including GamesRadar+, Edge, Kotaku UK and more.
The Golden Joystick Awards will take place at IndigO2 on Friday 30 October. An aftershow party will be held directly afterwards at the Brooklyn Bowl, also in the O2 Arena, complete with live entertainment.
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The 21 public voted categories are:
Best Original Game
1) Bloodborne (Sony)
2) Kerbal Space Program (Squad / Steam)
3) Life is Strange (Square)
4) This War of Mine (11 bit Studios)
5) Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
6) Splatoon (Nintendo)
7) Invisible Inc (Klei Entertainment)
8) Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft)
9) Talos Principle (Devolver Digital)
10) Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Best Storytelling
1) Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian / Paradox)
2) Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
3) Life Is Strange (Square)
4) Her Story (Sam Barlow)
5) Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
6) Game of Thrones (Telltale)
7) Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
8) The Talos Principle (Devolver Digital)
9) Bloodborne (Sony)
10) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
11) Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
Best Visual Design
1) Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
2) Vanishing of Ethan Carter (People Can Fly)
3) Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
4) Bloodborne (Sony)
5) The Order: 1886 (Sony)
6) Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft)
7) Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft)
8) Splatoon (Nintendo)
9) Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
10) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
11) Alien Isolation (Sega)
Best Audio in association with DTS
1) Elite Dangerous (Frontier)
2) Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
3) Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Devolver Digital)
4) Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
5) Battlefield Hardline (EA)
6) Bloodborne (Sony)
7) Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
8) Titan Souls (Devolver Digital)
9) Dying Light (Warner)
10) Life is Strange (Square)
11) Alien Isolation (Sega)
Best Multiplayer Game
1) Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
2) GTA Online (Rockstar)
3) Destiny: House of Wolves (Activision)
4) Splatoon (Nintendo)
5) Mortal Kombat X (Warner)
6) Kalimba (Press Play)
7) Bloodborne (Sony)
8) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision)
9) PES 2015 (Konami)
10) FIFA 2015 (EA)
11) Heroes of the Storm (Blizzard)
Best Indie Game
1) Axiom Verge
2) Affordable Space Adventures
3) Volume
4) Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture
5) Kerbal Space Program
6) Crypt Of The Necrodancer
7) Her Story
8) Invisible, Inc
9) Chaos Reborn
10) OlliOlli 2
Innovation of the Year
1) 3D head tracking for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo)
2) Affordable Space Adventures’ GamePad cockpit
3) First-person mode in GTA 5 (Rockstar)
4) Destiny’s companion app (Activision)
5) FFXV’s demo 2.0 fan feedback update (Square)
6) #IDARB (Microsoft)
7) Project Morpheus London Heist Demo (Sony)
Best Gaming Moment in association with Absolute Radio
1) Making it across the bridge in Dying Light (Warner)
2) The summon in Final Fantasy XV (Square)
3) Amygdala and the Nightmare Frontier in Bloodborne (Sony)
4) Meeting yourself from a previous game in Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
5) Riding an elephant to war in Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
6) Hyperspace in Elite Dangerous (Frontier)
7) The ‘return’ of the Joker in Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
8) The death derby in Tales from the Borderlands (2K Games)
9) Saving Kate in Life is Strange (Square)
10) The bloody baron quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
Most Wanted Game in association with The Sun
1) Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Square)
2) Ghost Recon Wildlands (Ubisoft)
3) Total War Warhammer (Sega)
4) Horizon: Zero Dawn (Sony)
5) Final Fantasy XV (Square)
6) Halo 5: Guardians (Microsoft)
7) Rise of the Tomb Raider (Microsoft)
8) Street Fighter V (Capcom)
9) Uncharted 4 (Sony)
10) New Zelda (Nintendo)
11) Star Wars Battlefront (EA)
12) Mass Effect Andromeda (EA)
13) Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
14) The Last Guardian (Sony)
15) Dark Souls 3 (Namco Bandai)
Gaming Personality of the Year
1) Shaun Plott
2) Austin Creed (Up, Up, Down, Down)
3) PewDiePie
4) MasterOV and MasterChar
5) StampyLongHead
6) NerdCubed
7) Spencer FC
8) The Miller Report
9) Ashley Mariee Gaming
10) Greg Miller
Studio of the Year
1) Bungie
2) The Creative Assembly
3) From Software
4) Rocksteady
5) Housemarque
6) Klei
7) CD Projekt RED
8) Frontier
9) Blizzard
10) Kojima Productions
Gaming Platform of the Year in association with Digital Spy
1) PS4
2) Xbox One
3) Wii U
4) New Nintendo 3DS
5) Steam
6) iOS
7) Android
Game of the Year
1) Batman: Arkham Knight (Warner)
2) Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
3) Destiny (Activision)
4) Bloodborne (Sony)
5) Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
6) Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate (Capcom)
7) Life Is Strange (Square)
8) Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
9) Kerbal Space Program (Squad / Steam)
10) PES 2016 (Konami)
11) Her Story (Sam Barlow)
12) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami)
Performance of the Year
1) Ashly Burch as Chloe in Life is Strange
2) Freddie Prinze, Jr. as The Iron Bull
3) Mark Hamill as The Joker in Batman Arkham Knight
4) Molly Stone as Talia Forrester in Game of Thrones
5) Laura Bailey as Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands
6) Troy Baker as Pagan Min in Far Cry 4
7) Viva Seifert in Her Story
8) Patrick Warburton as Vasquez in Tales from the Borderlands
9) Fry and Laurie in Little Big Planet 3
PlayStation Game of the Year
1) Bloodborne
2) LittleBigPlanet 3
3) DriveClub
4) Tearaway Unfolded
5) Until Dawn
6) God Of War 3: Remastered
7) The Order: 1886
8) Helldivers
9) Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture
10) Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection
Nintendo Game of the Year
1) Splatoon (Nintendo)
2) Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
3) The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D (Nintendo)
4) Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (Nintendo)
5) Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Nintendo)
6) Yoshi’s Wooly World (Nintendo)
PC Game of the Year
1) Cities: Skylines (Paradox)
2) Elite Dangerous (Frontier)
3) Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian)
4) Kerbal Space Program (Squad / Steam)
5) Endless Legend (Iceberg Interactive)
6) GTA 5 (Rockstar)
7) The Talos Principle (Devolver Digital)
8) Heroes Of The Storm (Blizzard)
9) Invisible Inc (Klei Entertainment)
10) Her Story (Sam Barlow)
11) Alien Isolation (Sega)
Xbox Game of the Year
1) Kalimba
2) Sunset Overdrive
3) State of Decay: Year One Survival
4) Ori and the Blind Forest
5) Forza Horizon 2
6) #IDARB
7) Halo: Master Chief Collection
8) Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition
9) Rare Replay
eSports Icon in association with Dfinity
1) Dota 2 – Syed ‘SumaiL’ Sumail Hassan
2) Smite – Brett ‘MlcSt3alth’ Felley
3) Hearthstone – Sebastien ‘Forsen’ Fors
4) Hearthstone – Andrey ‘Reynad’ Yanuk
5) CounterStrike GO – Anders Blume
Family Game
1) Splatoon (Nintendo)
2) Yoshi’s Woolly World (Nintendo)
3) Lego Jurassic World (Warner)
4) Lego Dimensions (Warner)
5) Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Nintendo)
6) Disney Infinity 3.0 (Disney)
7) Minecraft (Microsoft)
8) Kingdom Hearts 2.5 (Square)
9) Skylanders Trap Team (Activision)
10) Captain Toad (Nintendo)
Best Handheld / Mobile Game
1) Terra Battle (Mistwalker)
2) Final Fantasy Record Keeper (Square)
3) Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
4) Football Manager 2015 Classic (Sega)
5) Lifeline (3 Minute Games)
6) Framed (Loveshack Entertainment)
7) Neko Atsume (Hit-Point)
8) Fallout Shelter (Bethesda)
9) Steins; Gate (Nitroplus)
10) Twenty (Frenchguys)
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