Overwatch and Pokémon GO were also awarded at the Golden Joystick Awards 2016.
Computer game awards are a bit of a thing – there are no real Oscars, but the Golden Joystick Awards come closest to the little golden guy with a hair growth problem. The 34th Golden Joystick Awards were recently held in London. Yes, you read that right – the awards have been around since 1983. The winners are voted on by the players – so it’s a public award. The British Gamesradar has been leading the award since “CVG”, Computer and Video Games, no longer exists.
A Rain of Awards for Blizzard’s Shooter Overwatch
Overwatch really shone at the awards. It received awards for:
- “the best gaming moment” – with the Play of the Game
- the best multiplayer game
- the best “original game”, one that is based on its own source material
- the “Competitive Game of the Year”
- And Overwatch is also the PC game of the year. Immediately 5 awards for Blizzard’s shooter.
Pokémon GO, the summer hit, takes home the award for best “handheld game” and also wins the “innovation of the year” award.
The Witcher 3 also wins quite a bit in 2016
The Witcher 3 is also still quite successful: it earns an award for best performance (Doug Cockle as Geralt). It also takes home trophies for storytelling and graphic design, which the DLC “Blood and Wine” won. The studio “CD Projekt Red” also wins the award for best studio. In 2015, the main game “Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt” already earned the studio game of the year and three additional awards.
The top award overall, the Ultimate Game of the Year, in 2016, however, is none of those – it is Dark Souls 3.
It was already evident in 2015 that MMORPGs would not play a significant role in the awards for quite some time:
