The Golden Joystick Awards, the world’s longest-running game award, announced the 40th nominees and started voting! | Game*Spark

The world’s longest-running popular game award “Golden Joystick Awards“The 40th nominations have been announced. This year we have two new categories: “Best Early Access Launch” and “Best Game Trailer”.

The nominees for each category, as selected by experts from GamesRadar+, Edge Magazine, PC Gamer, Play Magazine and TechRadar Gaming, are as follows:

Best Audio

Best Storytelling

Best Game Community

Best Game Expansion

  • Final Fantasy XIV: Akatsuki Finale

  • Destiny 2: Raven Queen

  • Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

  • GTA Online: Contracts

  • Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons

  • Total War: Warhammer III – Immortal Empires

Best Gaming Hardware

Best Indie Game

  • Cult of the Lamb

  • Tunic

  • Rollerdrome

  • Dorfromantik

  • Neon White

  • Teardown

Best Multiplayer Game

  • ELDEN RING

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenue

  • MultiVersus

  • splatoon 3

  • Wonderlands ~Tiny Tina and the Magical World

  • LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Best Visual Design

  • ELDEN RING

  • Horizon Forbidden West

  • Cult of the Lamb

  • Ghostwire: Tokyo

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem

  • Lost in Play

Most Wanted Game

  • The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

  • final fantasy xvi

  • Assassin’s Creed Mirage

  • dead island 2

  • THE PROPHECY

  • street fighter 6

  • STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Collapse: Starrail

  • Starfield

  • Exo Primal

  • Redfall

  • hogwarts legacy

  • The Day Before

  • Mass Effect

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

  • Kerbal Space Program 2

  • Dead Space

Nintendo Game of the Year

PC Game of the Year

PlayStation Game of the Year

Xbox Game of the Year

Still Playing

Studio of the Year

Best Early Access Launch

Best Game Trailer

  • The Callisto Protocol: The Truth of Black Iron Trailer

  • Goat Simulator 3 Announcement Trailer

  • Skate: Still Working On It

  • Bloody Hell Hotel Reveal Trailer

  • Time Flies

  • Alan Wake 2 Reveal Trailer

Voting is now open on GamesRadar+ to see which game will win the award. The Best of the Best Ultimate Game of the Year category will have a dedicated voting window on November 7th.

The three categories of “Best Performer”, “Breakthrough Award”, and “Critics’ Choice Award” were selected by journalists from gamesradar.com, pcgamer.com, Edge magazine, Retro Gamer, and Play magazine, as well as freelance writers Trusted by Future. The network will determine the winner.

The “Golden Joystick Awards 2022” will be held on November 22nd, local time.TwitchFacebookGamesRadar+You can watch the live broadcast at

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