The Witcher 3 – multi-award winner

Gaming’s longest running awards event has honoured Ori And The Blind Forest, Bloodborne, and Splatoon; as well as Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata.

The Witcher 3 has emerged as the biggest winner at the 33rd annual Golden Joystick Awards, with five awards including Game of the Year, Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design, and Best Gaming Moment. Developer CD Projekt RED also picked up Studio of the Year.

The majority of awards were voted on by the public, with organisers claiming that over 9 million votes were cast in total. The winners have just been announced at a ceremony at the indigO2 at London’s O2 Arena, hosted by Danny Wallace.

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After The Witcher 3, it was Grand Theft Auto V that picked up the most awards, winning for Best Multiplayer, Innovation of the Year (for its first person view), Best PC Game, and Most Played Award. Although the game was first released back in 2013 the more recent PC version enabled it to qualify for this year’s awards as well.




Picking up two awards each were Bloodborne (Best Original Game and Best PlayStation Game), Ori And the Blind Forest (Best Audio and Best Xbox Game), and Splatoon (Best Family Game and Best Nintendo Game). Fallout also won two awards, with Fallout Shelter picking up Best Mobile Game and Fallout 4 winning Most Wanted Game.

This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award was given posthumously, to former Nintendo CEO and President Satoru Iwata. Which is terribly sad, but well deserved.

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The full list of winners are:

Best Original Game – Bloodborne

Best Storytelling – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Best Visual Design – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Best Audio – Ori And The Blind Forest

Best Multiplayer – GTA Online

Best Indie Game – Kerbal Space Program

Best Family Game – Splatoon

Best Mobile Game – Fallout Shelter

Innovation of the Year – First person mode in GTA V

Best Gaming Moment – Bloody Baron quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Gaming Personality – PewDiePie

eSports Icon – Counter-Strike GO – Anders Blume

Studio of the Year – CD Projekt RED

Best Gaming Platform – Steam

Best Gaming Performance – Ashly Burch as Chloe in Life Is Strange

Best PlayStation Game – Bloodborne

Best Nintendo Game – Splatoon

Best PC Game – GTA V

Best Xbox Game – Ori And The Blind Forest

Most Wanted Game – Fallout 4

Ultimate Game of the Year – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Lifetime Achievement – Satoru Iwata

Playfire Most Played – GTA V

Critics Choice – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Breakthrough Award – Her Story

Satoru Iwata – gone but not forgotten

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