Golden Joystick Awards 2024 voting is still live for 24 hours — this nominee easily got my GOTY pick
You still have time to vote for Golden Joystick Awards 2024 winners.
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What you need to know
One of the most popular gaming award ceremonies is the Golden Joystick Awards — an event run by Future plc (known for the Future Games Show), with voting managed by our friends over at GamesRadar+. Similar to The Game Awards, it celebrates the best games that release each year, with players around the world able to vote for nominees across a wide variety of categories. Notably, the commemoration is back for its 42nd year in 2024, and you still have time to vote in it.
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While voting formostcategories in the 2024 Golden Joystick Awards has ended, you can still cast your ballot for two: Ultimate Game of the Year and Best Game Adaptation. The former award represents the best overall new game released this year, while the latter will be given to a fan-favorite 2024 movie or TV show that’s based on a video game franchise.You have until tomorrow, November 8 at 3 p.m. PST / 6 p.m. EST / 11 p.m. GMT to vote before the cutoff, so do soheresoon; note that you can vote for three games for Ultimate Game of the Year, but can only choose one option for Best Game Adaptation.
“We’ve been blown away by the reception to this year’s Golden Joystick Awards with a record 10 million+ votes in our initial round of categories, including Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design and Most Wanted Game,” said content director Daniel Dawkins. “Ultimate Game of the Year is our most prestigious award which sits in its own voting window from Nov. 4 to Nov. 8, allowing the judging panel more time to assess the big winter releases.”
In total, there are 12 nominees for Ultimate Game of the Year, including the following:
The nominee pool for Best Game Adaptation is much smaller at six, with the following movies and TV shows available to vote for:
I haven’t played every game in the Ultimate Game of the Year shortlist yet — Ireallyneed to get around to tryingMetaphor: ReFantazio, in particular — but of the ones that I have, the clear winner for me isHelldivers 2. There’s really nothing else like it in the world of co-op games, with the dynamism of its 40-minute missions, the depth of its action-packed gameplay, and its advanced (and often hilarious) physics interactions all coming together to deliver the ultimate PvE shooter. Playing it with my friends has been nothing short of a blast this year, and while I’ve also enjoyed my time with titles likeDragon Age: The Veilguardand Animal Well, Arrowhead Game Studios' PS5 and Windows PC hit definitely gets my #1 pick.
For Best Game Adaptation, I think it’d be incredibly difficult for any of the nominees to topple theFallout TV show, as its first season debuted in April to universal acclaim and went on towin Emmy Awards,reach over 100 million viewers, and get renewed for Season 2 in just over a week. The series was so instantly and explosively successful that it even kicked off aFallout player count resurgenceacross all the franchise’s games, withFallout 4benefitting the most. Speaking as a hugeFalloutfan, I loved the show, and wasn’t really swayed to vote for anything else. I’d probably vote for Borderlands if there was a Worst Game Adaptation category, though, becausewoof. Halo Season 2 was pretty mediocre, too.
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Once voting concludes tomorrow, all the ballots will be tallied until November 21 at 4 p.m. GMT / 11 a.m. EST, which is when the Golden Joystick Awards are scheduled to begin and winners will be revealed. The event will be streamed live online on relevantYouTube,Twitch, Steam,FacebookandX (Twitter)channels, and also through the Future Games Show, GamesRadar, PC Gamer and TechRadar Gaming.
The awards will be hosted by Ben Starr, best known for his excellent performance as Clive Rosfield in the popular 2023 action RPGFinal Fantasy XVI. Some other presenters that will appear during the show include Alex McKenna (Sadie Adler,Red Dead Redemption 2), Alix Wilton Regan (Joanna Dark, Perfect Dark), Neil Newbon (Astarion,Baldur’s Gate 3), Patricia Summersett (Princess Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Ash in Rainbow Six Siege),Cyberpunk 2077producer Monika Janowska, and the actor and game developer Abubakar Salim.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
