2015-09-02

This years golden joystick awards are open for voting
We all know it's a popularity contest but whatever
You can vote here

Here are the categories and nominees:

Best Original Game

Bloodborne (Sony)
Kerbal Space Program (Squad / Steam)
Life is Strange (Square)
This War of Mine (11 bit Studios)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
Splatoon (Nintendo)
Invisible Inc (Klei Entertainment)
Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft)
Talos Principle (Devolver Digital)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Best Storytelling

Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian / Paradox)
Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
Life Is Strange (Square)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
Game of Thrones (Telltale)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
The Talos Principle (Devolver Digital)
Bloodborne (Sony)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)

Best Visual Design

Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
Vanishing of Ethan Carter (People Can Fly)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
Bloodborne (Sony)
The Order: 1886 (Sony)
Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft)
Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft)
Splatoon (Nintendo)
Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
Alien Isolation (Sega)

Best Audio

Elite Dangerous (Frontier)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Devolver Digital)
Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
Battlefield Hardline (EA)
Bloodborne (Sony)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
Titan Souls (Devolver Digital)
Dying Light (Warner)
Life is Strange (Square)
Alien Isolation (Sega)

Best Multiplayer Game

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
GTA Online (Rockstar)
Destiny: House of Wolves (Activision)
Splatoon (Nintendo)
Mortal Kombat X (Warner)
Kalimba (Press Play)
Bloodborne (Sony)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision)
PES 2015 (Konami)
FIFA 2015 (EA)
Heroes of the Storm (Blizzard)

Best Indie Game

Axiom Verge
Affordable Space Adventures
Volume
Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture
Kerbal Space Program
Crypt Of The Necrodancer
Her Story
Invisible, Inc
Chaos Reborn
OlliOlli 2

Innovation of the Year

3D head tracking for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo)
Affordable Space Adventures’ GamePad cockpit
First-person mode in GTA 5 (Rockstar)
Destiny’s companion app (Activision)
FFXV’s demo 2.0 fan feedback update (Square)
#IDARB (Microsoft)
Project Morpheus London Heist Demo (Sony)

Best Gaming Moment

Making it across the bridge in Dying Light (Warner)
The summon in Final Fantasy XV (Square)
Amygdala and the Nightmare Frontier in Bloodborne (Sony)
Meeting yourself from a previous game in Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
Riding an elephant to war in Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
Hyperspace in Elite Dangerous (Frontier)
The ‘return’ of the Joker in Batman Arkham Knight (Warner)
The death derby in Tales from the Borderlands (2K Games)
Saving Kate in Life is Strange (Square)
The bloody baron quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)

Most Wanted Game

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Square)
Ghost Recon Wildlands (Ubisoft)
Total War Warhammer (Sega)
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Sony)
Final Fantasy XV (Square)
Halo 5: Guardians (Microsoft)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Microsoft)
Street Fighter V (Capcom)
Uncharted 4 (Sony)
New Zelda (Nintendo)
Star Wars Battlefront (EA)
Mass Effect Andromeda (EA)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
The Last Guardian (Sony)
Dark Souls 3 (Namco Bandai)

Gaming Personality of the Year

Shaun Plott
Austin Creed (Up, Up, Down, Down)
PewDiePie
MasterOV and MasterChar
StampyLongHead
NerdCubed
Spencer FC
The Miller Report
Ashley Mariee Gaming
Greg Miller

Studio of the Year

Bungie
The Creative Assembly
From Software
Rocksteady
Housemarque
Klei
CD Projekt RED
Frontier
Blizzard
Kojima Productions

Gaming Platform of the Year

PS4
Xbox One
Wii U
New Nintendo 3DS
Steam
iOS
Android

Game of the Year

Batman: Arkham Knight (Warner)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)
Destiny (Activision)
Bloodborne (Sony)
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Namco Bandai)
Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate (Capcom)
Life Is Strange (Square)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Microsoft)
Kerbal Space Program (Squad / Steam)
PES 2016 (Konami)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami)

Performance of the Year

Ashly Burch as Chloe in Life is Strange
Freddie Prinze, Jr. as The Iron Bull
Mark Hamill as The Joker in Batman Arkham Knight
Molly Stone as Talia Forrester in Game of Thrones
Laura Bailey as Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands
Troy Baker as Pagan Min in Far Cry 4
Viva Seifert in Her Story
Patrick Warburton as Vasquez in Tales from the BorderlandsFry and Laurie in Little Big Planet 3

PlayStation Game of the Year

Bloodborne
LittleBigPlanet 3
DriveClub
Tearaway Unfolded
Until Dawn
God Of War 3: Remastered
The Order: 1886
Helldivers
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection

Nintendo Game of the Year

Splatoon (Nintendo)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D (Nintendo)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (Nintendo)
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Nintendo)
Yoshi’s Wooly World (Nintendo)

PC Game of the Year

Cities: Skylines (Paradox)
Elite Dangerous (Frontier)
Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian)
Kerbal Space Program (Squad / Steam)
Endless Legend (Iceberg Interactive)
GTA 5 (Rockstar)
The Talos Principle (Devolver Digital)
Heroes Of The Storm (Blizzard)
Invisible Inc (Klei Entertainment)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Alien Isolation (Sega)

Xbox Game of the Year

Kalimba
Sunset Overdrive
State of Decay: Year One Survival
Ori and the Blind Forest
Forza Horizon 2
#IDARB
Halo: Master Chief Collection
Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition
Rare Replay

eSports Icon

Dota 2 - Syed 'SumaiL' Sumail Hassan
Smite - Brett 'MlcSt3alth' Felley
Hearthstone - Sebastien 'Forsen' Fors
Hearthstone - Andrey 'Reynad' Yanuk
CounterStrike GO - Anders Blume

Family Game

Splatoon (Nintendo)
Yoshi’s Woolly World (Nintendo)
Lego Jurassic World (Warner)
Lego Dimensions (Warner)
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Nintendo)
Disney Infinity 3.0 (Disney)
Minecraft (Microsoft)
Kingdom Hearts 2.5 (Square)
Skylanders Trap Team (Activision)
Captain Toad (Nintendo)

Best Handheld / Mobile Game

Terra Battle (Mistwalker)
Final Fantasy Record Keeper (Square)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
Football Manager 2015 Classic (Sega)
Lifeline (3 Minute Games)
Framed (Loveshack Entertainment)
Neko Atsume (Hit-Point)
Fallout Shelter (Bethesda)
Steins; Gate (Nitroplus)
Twenty (Frenchguys)

If I was gonna bother voting it'd be split between bloodborne and splatoon
Find it weird that they omitted Iwata from the gaming personalities category

Also gooseberry fool the eSports icon category
Seriously

Statistics: Posted by Kesskuron — Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:42 am

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