2017 Golden Joystick Awards Winners Announced
by Rainier on Nov. 19, 2017 @ 1:05 p.m. PST | Filed under News
The Golden Joystick Awards are back! Marking 35 years of celebrating everything we love about the world’s most dynamic creative industry.
The Golden Joystick Awards are back! Marking 35 years of celebrating everything we love about the world’s most dynamic creative industry.
Inspired by real world counter-terrorist organizations, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege puts players in the middle of lethal close-quarters confrontations.
You’re in for an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with special attention paid to soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races.
Session is a skateboarding sim entirely focused on creativity and freedom of expression, nothing else!
PlanetSide 2 takes all the groundbreaking features from the original game – massive multiplayer battles, distinctive empires to rally around, and enormous continents to support intense ground and air combat – and adds features that modern gamers have come to expect out of the FPS and MMO genres.
Shadowhand combines a historical visual novel narrative with collectible card gaming.
Titan Quest is an action role-playing game set in the ancient mythical worlds of Greece and Egypt. With an arsenal of more than a thousand pieces of unique and legendary equipment, players will have to overcome terrifying monsters and mythical beasts in their quest to save humankind from the Titans.
SOMA is a sci-fi horror game that will tackle unsettling questions about consciousness.
The race is on in Mantis Burn Racing, where fast-paced bumper-to-bumper racing combines with intuitive, tactile gameplay and stunning visuals in an immersive top-down racer.
Earlier this year Paradox Interactive announced that Jon Shafer, designer of such strategy titles as Sid Meier’s Civilization V, joined Paradox Development Studio to work on new projects but creative differences seem to have ended this collaboration prematurely.
Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:
Party Planet is a compilation of 30 party games, 18 of which can be played with up to 4 players for some friendly cooperative or competitive play.
SpellForce 3 blends the best of real-time strategy and role-playing game genres with a rich, deep backstory.
Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining.
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood mixes traditional Scandinavian storytelling with an inventive and colorful 2.5D platformer, combining classic jump and run gameplay with smart and innovative puzzles.
Door Kickers: Action Squad is an old school side scroller/action game that puts you in the role of a SWAT trooper and sends you to deal with bad guys in various locales of Nowhere City USA.
Live the untold Star Wars story of Iden, an elite Stormtrooper, in an original single-player story. Battle on land and in space in an expanded multiplayer experience with iconic heroes and villains, thrilling space battles, and a deep progression and customization system.
Biomutant is a post-apocalyptic open-world action RPG that delivers real-time melee, shooter and mutant ability action.
Distortions is a 3D game in third person, set in a surreal atmosphere, that promises to catch the player's attention. Together with the main character, you will be challenged on a search for answers in an adventure through an unknown place.
Part comedy part chaos, Apocalypse Cow will take your favorite games and movies and explode them into a pool of blood and parody.
Star Control: Origins is a sci-fi action/adventure game that takes place in a living galaxy filled with thousands of unique worlds, many of which are teeming with alien life. It also has over a dozen star-faring civilizations the player must trade, fight and negotiate with.
Live the untold Star Wars story of Iden, an elite Stormtrooper, in an original single-player story. Battle on land and in space in an expanded multiplayer experience with iconic heroes and villains, thrilling space battles, and a deep progression and customization system.
Path of Exile is a free-to-play online action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world, where you play as one of six character classes, banished for their past misdeeds to the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast.
Endless Space 2 is turn-based, 4X space-strategy that launches players into the space colonization age of different civilizations within the Endless universe.