With December fast approaching, many outlets are now thinking about their game of the year awards. One of the first to go ahead with these is GamesRadar and their Golden Joystick Awards. While a total of 14 games earned a variety of awards across the categories, the biggest winner of the night was Resident Evil Village, which took home four awards.
Resident Evil Village won Best Audio and PlayStation Game of the Year, as well as the Ultimate Game of the Year. Lady Dimitrescu actress Maggie Robertson also won Best Performer, bringing Village’s total to four. The only other game to win multiple awards was Final Fantasy XIV, which grabbed the Best Game Community and Still Playing awards. Sony also had a fairly good night as Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart got Best Visual Design and Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island won Best Game Expansion. The PlayStation 5 console got Best Gaming Hardware while Housemarque won the Breakthrough Award. The full list of winners can be seen below:
Golden Joystick Award Winners 2021
- Best Storytelling – Life is Strange: True Colors
- Best Multiplayer Game – It Takes Two
- Best Audio – Resident Evil: Village
- Best Visual Design – Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
- Best Game Expansion – Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island Expansion
- Mobile Game of the Year – League of Legends: Wild Rift
- Best Gaming Hardware – PlayStation 5
- Best Indie Game – Death’s Door
- Studio of the Year – Capcom
- Best Performer – Maggie Robertson (Lady Dimitrescu)
- Breakthrough Award – Housemarque
- Best Game Community – Final Fantasy XIV
- Still Playing Award – Final Fantasy XIV
- PC Game of the Year – Hitman 3
- Nintendo Game of the Year – Metroid Dread
- Xbox Game of the Year – Psychonauts 2
- PlayStation Game of the Year – Resident Evil Village
- Most Wanted Game – Elden Ring
- Critics Choice Award – Deathloop
- Ultimate Game of the Year – Resident Evil Village
- Ultimate Hardware of All Time – PC
- Ultimate Game of All Time – Dark Souls
With the timing of the awards leading to voting beginning on October 19 and ending on November 5, it does mean some late releases weren’t eligible for the 2021 awards. This includes Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Call of Duty: Vanguard, Forza Horizon 5, Battlefield 2042, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, and The Binding of Isaac: Repentance. All of these will be eligible for next year’s Golden Joystick Awards.
[Source: GamesRadar]
