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You can't get much Game of the Yearerer than that. Press release.

Gaming innovation celebrated at record breaking Golden Joystick Awards

Boom for event as gamers cast 1.2m votes and name Fallout 3 their ultimate game

1500 HRS October 30th 2009 – The video games industry was recognized as the fastest-growing entertainment medium and the UK was acknowledged as a centre of creative excellence today as the winners of the world’s most popular video game awards show, the 27th annual Golden Joystick Awards were announced in London.

Fallout 3 was crowned “Ultimate Game of the Year”, whilst Call of Duty continued its annual winning streak with a hat-trick of accolades.

With UK consumers spending £2.7billion on gaming over the last year, the industry remains resilient through the current downturn. As games continue to increase in popularity, organisers of the Golden Joystick Awards reported a 47% surge in voting, with over 1.2m votes in another record breaking year.

The popular Call of Duty series from Activision Blizzard once again proved it was a fan favourite, scooping a trio of awards in 2009. Call of Duty: World at War won “Multiplayer Game of the Year” and “Nintendo Game of the Year.” The forthcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 looks set to rule Christmas 2009, bagging the “One to Watch” award.

The haul of awards for Activision Blizzard continued with Guitar Hero: World Tour winning “Soundtrack of the Year”, while the gaming giant rounded-off its haul with “Publisher of the Year”.

There was strong showing for UK-developed titles, as “Family Game of the Year” was taken by Guildford-based Media Molecule for LittleBigPlanet on PlayStation 3 - an innovative platform game voiced by Stephen Fry. “Handheld Game of the Year” was won by Rockstar Leeds' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for Nintendo DS. The “UK Developer of the Year” category saw Cambridge company Jagex smash all-comers as the makers of Runescape – the biggest free massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the world - outflanked rivals in the category by an overwhelming margin.

The full list of winners in the 2009 Golden Joystick Awards is;

Family Game of the Year: LittleBigPlanet
Bliss Handheld Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Retailer of the Year: GAME
Mobile Game of the Year: Metal Gear Solid Touch
Nintendo Game of the Year: Call of Duty: World at War
MSN Multiplayer Game of the Year: Call Of Duty: World At War
The Rampage Soundtrack of the Year: Guitar Hero World Tour
Xbox Game of the Year: Gears of War 2
PC Game of the Year: Fallout 3
Amiqus Games UK Developer of the Year: Jagex
PlayStation Game of the Year: Killzone 2
Publisher of the Year: Activision Blizzard
Online Game of the Year: Left4Dead
ShortList One to Watch: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Ultimate Game of the Year, together with Zavvi.co.uk: Fallout 3

Rounding off the afternoon in style, the Golden Joystick Awards themselves were officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the “World’s Most Popular Video Game Awards.” The Golden Joysticks polled 1,223,646 votes in its 27th year.

Emma Parkinson is Organiser of the Golden Joystick Awards:

“The games industry remains innovative and vibrant despite economic pressures. Many of the winners at the Golden Joystick’s demonstrate that UK talent remains crucial to the success of this industry across the globe and must be nurtured at all cost.

I’m delighted by the record number of votes – gamers deserve to have their say about their favourite games, having spent £2.7billion of their hard-earned cash in the toughest year the industry has experienced.”

MrBumble · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 16:08 Post subject:

Game of the centurah pliz !

Black · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 16:09 Post subject:

Blackened · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 16:17 Post subject:

Khan FurSainty · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 16:48 Post subject:

It's like some horrible disease. Soon it will devour mankind and leave behind only destruction and mayhem.

Reconite · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 16:49 Post subject:

With every success Bethesda makes, I die a little inside.

I don't give a shit what happens to Fallout now, as long as Interplay takes a chunk out of Bethesda. I'm still waiting on Wasteland 2, at least that's in competent hands.
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PlanHex · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 17:42 Post subject:

Why do they call the awards for 2008 games the 2009 awards?
And why did it take them 10 months to complete the vote?
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Goweigus · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 20:59 Post subject:

I would only consider this nomination/award if they openly remarked about all the great mods that people have made

the game vanilla style is pretty terrible
but with some great mods from um... fallout nexus?
the game actually gets pretty good

i still like the first 2 better than 3 with all the best mods though
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We can always opt for electric brain shock to forget our memories. So long as we remember to make a note to play Fallout and Fallout 2!!! and AFTERFALL w007!!!! 1337ness!!!!!!

The Dutch Ghost · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 21:04 Post subject:

All the mods do is fix imbalances, change some graphics and add things as long as these do not conflict with the DLCs and patches.

They don't fix the storyline, the terrible AI or the fact that most of the setting is a boring sandbox.

The basic game itself is terrible.
You don't know how relieved I was when I found a mod that finally made people shut up when my eyes happened to go over a cup or a discarded tin can while trying to move around.
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Rufus Luccarelli · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 22:08 Post subject:

It doesn't really mean all that much. Just that Fallout 3 has really big fanbase.
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UncannyGarlic · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:00 Post subject:

The Dutch Ghost · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:12 Post subject:

Ulysses · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:18 Post subject:

Eh, it's like a Grammy then.
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UnidentifiedFlyingTard · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:23 Post subject:

more like an MTV Video Music Award.
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Daruth_Winterwood · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 13:50 Post subject:

Ah another list of game awards as meaningful as any other. Needs more hyperbole.
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TychoXI · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 15:10 Post subject:

Awww, man! And here I was hoping FO3 would win Bestest Gaem Evar in teh Galaxeee Award. But no... it just won the Ultimate Game of the Year Award. Disappointing to say the least.

The Vault Dweller · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 18:04 Post subject:

I can't wait for the "Game of the Day Awards". Then everyone will be a winner and people will finally realize such things amount to squat.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
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coyote_sprit · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 18:25 Post subject:

Democracy isn't capable of deciding such things it's the consumer on an individual basis, unfortunately most consumers are stupid.

TheGM · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 18:44 Post subject:

Psyckosama · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:05 Post subject:

I think VG Cats said it best...

This is Us.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/090423.jpg

This is the market the industry is pandering to.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/090811.jpg

Oh, and am I the only one who noticed that pretty much every game on the list was a FPS?