Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners announced - Baldur’s Gate 3 takes home 6 awards
Developer Larian Studios also picks up the win for Studio of the Year
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The results are in, and all the winners of this year’sGolden Joystick Awardshave been confirmed. The 41st annual awards were hosted today in the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK, with awards handed out for a total of 23 categories.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Larian Studios’Baldur’s Gate 3has walked away with the most accolades, with six in total including the coveted Ultimate Game of the Year Award. For the top prize, the highly acclaimed role-playing game managed to beat 19 competitors, includingMarvel’s Spider-Man 2andThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Baldur’s Gate 3was also given the awards for Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design, Best Game Community, Best Supporting Performer (which went to Astarion actor Neil Newbon), and PC Game of the Year. On top of that, developer Larian Studios also earned the award for Studio of the Year for its work on the game.
In other categories, Hello Games’No Man’s Sky- the exploration and survival game which was first released in 2016 - walked away with the Still Playing award, while CD Projekt Red’sCyberpunk 2077: Phantom Libertybagged itself the Best Game Expansion award.Phantom Libertyalso won the award for the Best Game Trailer.
Sea of Stars- a gorgeous pixel-art RPG from Sabotage Studios, earned Best Indie Game, while Guerrilla Games and Firesprite’sHorizon Call of the Mountaintook home the award for Best VR Game. Speaking of VR, the award for Best Gaming Hardware went to PlayStation’sPSVR 2.
Square Enix’sFinal Fantasyseries managed to win three different awards this year, withFinal Fantasy 16earning Best Audio, and Clive Rosfield actor Ben Starr taking home the Best Lead Performer award.Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthwas given the award for Most Wanted Game.
The Best Multiplayer Game award went to NetherRealm Studio’s brutal fighting game,Mortal Kombat 1, while the Streamers' Choice Award was given to Riot Games’ tactical first-person shooter,Valorant.
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Geometric Interactive’s debut game, the unique puzzle-adventureCocoon, was presented with the Breakthrough Award. Meanwhile, the Critics’ Choice Award went to Remedy Entertainment’s survival horror gameAlan Wake 2.
Finally, the award for Nintendo Game of the Year went toTheLegend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, while PlayStation Game of the Year was given toResident Evil 4, and Xbox Game of the Year was awarded toStarfield.
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Catherine is a News Writer for TechRadar Gaming. Armed with a journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, she was sucked into the games media industry after spending far too much time on her university newspaper writing about Pokémon and cool indie games, and realising that was a very cool job, actually. She previously spent 19 months working at GAMINGbible as a full-time journalist. She loves all things Nintendo, and will never stop talking about Xenoblade Chronicles.
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