If you haven’t heard of the 2017 Golden Joystick Awards, let me give you a small introduction. Every year GamesRadar runs these awards and lets the public decide which is the best game for each category. This year is the 35th year that the awards are being held and it is being hosted by none other than Danny Wallace.
If you’ve wanted to vote, you’ve missed the original run that ended yesterday 21 September 2017 for the shortlisting. Have no fear though, as you can go to the website and now vote among the nominated games for your favourite for each category.
Which brings me to the point of this article. This morning I awoke to the sight of not only CAPCOM, but KONAMI and Deep Silver sharing a tweet about Resident Evil 7 being nominated for the Best VR and Ultimate Game of the Year Awards.
Of course, I am completely happy with this vote and after this article I will making my votes in the Golden Joystick Awards. It is so wonderful seeing corporations like Konami sharing the vote for RE7. I remember a time when many of us believed the RE franchise being rival to Silent Hill. Yet Konami, specifically Konami UK, have always shown great support for others. Whenever I’ve shared details of my Silent Hill novel series, Konami UK were always the first to like and share. And it is this sort of positive contribution that really makes this world great to live in.
Back to the awards. What is great about voting in this awards is that every voter will get their choice of gaming eBook worth up to £15.99. You will get to choose between PC Gamer’s Best PC Games ever, Edge’s 100 Greatest Videogames, GamesMaster’s Ultimate Guide to Minecraft Vol 20, Retro Gamer’s Book of Arcade Classics, The Nintendo Switch Book, and The PlayStation Book celebrating over 20 years of PlayStation.
So, if like CAPCOM, Deep Silver and Konami you would like to put your vote down for RE7, head on over to the 2017 Golden Joystick awards and have your say. You have until 3 November to vote and the awards will take place on 17 November.
I believe RE7 should win most of these awards. Be that as it may, here are the categories and nominees::
- Best Storytelling
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- NieR: Automata
- Night in the Woods
- Persona 5
- Prey
- Pyre
- Tacoma
- Torment: Tides of Numenera
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Best Visual Design
- Cuphead
- Dishonored 2
- Final Fantasy XV
- GNOG
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Little Nightmares
- Monument Valley 2
- Night in the Woods
- Persona 5
- Pyre
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Best Audio
- Destiny 2
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm
- Little Nightmares
- Persona 5
- Project Cars 2
- Pyre
- RiME
- Sniper Elite 4
- Tacoma
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Best Gaming Performance
- Ashly Burch (Aloy, Horizon: Zero Dawn)
- Brian Bloom (B. J. Blazkowicz, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus)
- Claudia Black (Chloe Frazer, Uncharted)
- Fryda Wolff (Ryder, Mass Effect Andromeda)
- Jack Brand (Jack Baker, Resident Evil 7)
- Kylie Brown (Rachel Amber, Life is Strange BTS)
- Melina Juergens (Senua, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice)
- Nathan Fillion (Cayde-6, Destiny 2)
- Best Indie Game
- Dream Daddy
- Everything
- Friday the 13th: The Game
- Night in the Woods
- Pyre
- Slime Rancher
- Stories Untold
- Tacoma
- Thimbleweed Park
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Best Multiplayer Game
- Absolver
- Battlefield 1
- Destiny 2
- FIFA 18
- Friday the 13th: The Game
- Injustice 2
- LawBreakers
- Nidhogg 2
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
- Splatoon 2
- Studio of the Year
- Arkane Studios
- Bluehole Studio Inc.
- Boss Key Productions
- Creative Assembly
- Guerrilla Games
- Machine Games
- NetherRealm
- Ninja Theory
- Nintendo EPD
- Platinum
- Rebellion
- Best VR Game
- Dead Effect 2 VR
- Farpoint
- GNOG
- Resident Evil 7
- Rez Infinite
- Robo Recall
- SUPERHOT VR
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew
- Statik
- Thumper
- Wilson’s Heart
- eSports Play of the Year
- Agilities’ five-man Dragonblade at Overwatch Contenders
- Autimatic and Skadoodle win 2 vs. 4 with pistols
- PraY’s Ashe skillshot at Worlds 2016
- TeamLiquid win the first ever 3-0 grand final victory at the International
- Tokido’s incredible parry at Evo 2017
- eSports Team of the Year
- Astralis
- Lunatic-Hai
- Northern Gaming
- Optic Gaming
- SK Telecom T1
- Team Liquid
- Team SoloMid
- eSports Game of the Year
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- Dota 2
- FIFA 17
- League of Legends
- Overwatch
- Rainbow Six: Siege
- Rocket League
- Smite
- StarCraft II
- Best Streamer / Broadcaster
- Hannah Rutherford
- Jacksepticeye
- Jupiter Hadley
- Markiplier
- Maximilian Dood
- Polygon
- Waypoint
- What’s Good Games
- Handheld / Mobile Game of the Year
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
- Ever Oasis
- Fire Emblem Heroes
- Framed 2
- Hidden Folks
- Milkmaid of the Milky Way
- Monument Valley 2
- Old Man’s Journey
- Pokémon Sun and Moon
- Super Mario Run
- Nintendo Game of the Year
- ARMS
- Bulb Boy
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Metroid: Samus Returns
- Pokémon Sun and Moon
- Snipperclips
- Splatoon 2
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- PlayStation Game of the Year
- Everybody’s Golf
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Nex Machina
- NieR: Automata
- Nioh
- Persona 5
- Statik
- The Last Guardian
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Yakuza 0
- Xbox Game of the Year
- Cuphead
- Dead Rising 4
- Forza Motorsport 7
- Gears of War 4
- Gigantic
- Halo Wars 2
- Pit People
- Slime Rancher
- Tacoma
- PC Game of the Year
- Dream Daddy
- Endless Space 2
- OneShot
- Planet Coaster
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
- Stories Untold
- Total War: Warhammer II
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
- West of Loathing
- Breakthrough Award
- Ashly Burch
- Brendan Greene
- Cavalier Game Studios
- Game Grumps
- Giant Sparrow
- Infinite Fall
- Melina Jeurgens
- Nick Popovich
- Nina Freeman
- SMAC Games
- Most Wanted Game
- Beyond Good and Evil 2
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Death Stranding
- Far Cry 5
- God of War
- Metro Exodus
- Metroid Prime 4
- Ooblets
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Sea of Theives
- Spider-Man
- Star Wars Battlefront II
- The Last of Us Part II
- Still Playing
- Diablo III
- EVE Online
- FIFA 17
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Hearthstone
- Minecraft
- Overwatch
- Pokémon Go
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2017
- Rocket League
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- World of Tanks
- Ultimate Game of the Year
- Assassin’s Creed Origins
- Destiny 2
- Dishonored 2
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Monument Valley 2
- Persona 5
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Resident Evil 7
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- What Remains of Edith Finch
Having just completed my votes, I have just received my option of a free e-book! Thanks GamesRadar!
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….and Elemental Mage Supreme in his spare time
