Golden Joystick Awards 2008

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The Golden Joystick Awards is one of the most prestigious gaming award ceremonies worldwide. Some consider the awards to be the "People's Awards," leaving out the politics of gaming. In this 26th annual Golden Joystick Awards, as always, the winners are chosen strictly by gamers. This year, a ton of PlayStation titles have been nominated for various awards. We've included them below.

The Sun Family Game of the Year: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Rock Band, LEGO Indiana Jones, Ratchet & Clank Future and The Simpsons.
Bliss Handheld Game of the Year: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Crisis Core: FFVII, God of War: COO and Patapon.
Nuts All Nighter: Team Fortress 2, Burnout Paradise, Call of Duty 4, Grand Theft Auto IV and Rock Band.
One to Watch Award: Call of Duty: World at War, Final Fantasy XIII, LittleBigPlanet and Resident Evil 5.
Online Game of the Year: Team Fortress 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Call Of Duty 4 and UT3.
PlayStation Game of the Year: Rock Band, Assassin's Creed, Burnout Paradise, Call of Duty 4, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Devil May Cry 4, God of War: CoO, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Grand Theft Auto IV, Guitar Hero III, Haze, Heavenly Sword, Metal Gear Solid 4, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
Ultimate Game of the Year: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Portal, Burnout Paradise, Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed, GTA IV and MGS4.
Most Wanted Award: Fallout 3, Heavy Rain, Bayonetta, Far Cry 2, inFamous, Mirror's Edge, Resident Evil 5 and Prince of Persia.

PlayStation Universe would also like to congratulate one of our co-founders, Kieran O'Neill, who was chosen as a judge to determine the Flash Award finalists due to his history and ties to the gaming industry. We would like to mention that if any PSU readers have created their own Flash web games, they can submit it at this URL (http://www.e4.com/joystick/) and potentially win $10,000 and a Golden Joystick.

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  1. Triple Dk | TripleDk

    • 4:35pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    I made a small racing game with Flash... I think my mom liked it.

  2. BigC3 | BigC3

    • 4:46pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    i wonder why Haze is up for a game of the year award, its dead, face it!

    They;re even putting up free game packs on the PSN to try and revive it.

    Dead and buried. Overly hyped

  3. T-Dogg400 | T-Dogg400

    • 4:59pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    I hope that MGS4 win cause every single moment was perfect.

  4. SamuraiClarke

    • 5:04pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    Why is Haze up there? It was terrible, and an embarrasment to PlayStation 3 owners...

  5. svtschmidt

    • 5:13pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    how is killzone2 not up there for most wanted

  6. NitroMikeo

    • 5:16pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    Ultimate Game of the year - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.     errrr somehow I think not.

  7. AWAKE

    • 5:31pm BST - August 27th, 2008

     HAZE ,WHAT are they on crack(nectar) or what?????

  8. gingo | gingo

    • 5:47pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    psn id: gingo... my predictions for these are.... Family game - Rock Band, Handheld game - god of war COO, One to Watch - LBP, Online game - COD4, Playstation game - MGS4, Ultimate GOTY - MGS4, Most Wanted - Resi Evil 5... dnt really know about the All Nighter one but i reckon it will prob be GTA4

  9. Denali2 | NEJI64

    • 6:12pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    one to watch for LBP will win...

    playstation game of the year MGS4 will win but yall know me i'm rooting for HAVENLY SWARD

    most wanted award RE5 will win

    ultimate game of the year MGS4 should win... i just cant give it to COD4...MGS4 story just to wicked

  10. GuitarMaster231 | Cody0705

    • 7:01pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    Rock band gets family game of the year, GoW for handheld game, CoD4 for the all nighter, LittleBigPlanet for one to watch, Online game of the year probably Call of Duty 4, MSG4 gets ultimate and PS game of the year, and Fallout 3 is most wanted.

     

    From a very biased point of view of course.

  11. tristan88888888 | Tristan88888888

    • 7:33pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    why the h*ll is quake wars nominated for anything. it was good on pc but not worth game of the year and on the ps3 it sucked a*s so i dont get that.

  12. CSZ002

    • 7:49pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    omg its obvious which game is gonna win PLAYSTATION GAME OF THE YEAR award. MGS4. Hands down. But not saying heavenly sword, ratchet & clank, dmc4, gta 4 or any other nominated game were bad tho, they all deserved the nom. Well except HAZE. Ugh, that game disappointed many of us.

  13. Paranoimia | Paranoimia

    • 7:59pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    Interesting... Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - a game that OPM described as "a mattress stain" - is up for Ultimate Game of the Year?

  14. Ninja-KiLLR | Ninja-KiLLR

    • 8:15pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    what enemy territory is up there? y?

  15. ferret66

    • 8:35pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    If MGS4 doesnt win everything it is nominated for then people are on drugs.

  16. Ocelot1987 | METSTM

    • 9:47pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    I have no clue why Quake wars was nominated but oh well. Metal Gear should be the game of the year easily. That game's character development makes FF characters look bad. Love the series and I do hope there is another somehow. :)

  17. angryplaystationdude | sympozium_666

    • 9:57pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    Online game of the year; Pro Evolution soccer 08 WTH Online sucked get Warhawk In

  18. Untildeath89 | willmakenewonesoon

    • 10:12pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    Online Game of the Year: ....Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, ..... and ......

    are you sure? and whats up with haze as ps goty?

  19. Liquid-PSN

    • 10:14pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    HAZE? hahahaha

  20. NoMercy666 | Ask me...

    • 11:00pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    I think there should be one game per award.

  21. xBSGeorge | xBSGeorge

    • 11:29pm BST - August 27th, 2008

    @20 these are only the nominations, not the games that won the awards.  Thus, in the end, there will be only one game per award.

  22. NoMercy666 | Ask me...

    • 12:20am BST - August 28th, 2008

    @21, thanks for clearing that up for me.

  23. The Master

    • 12:46am BST - August 28th, 2008

    Family Game: Rock Band

    Handheld Game: Hopefully Crisis Core, but will prolly go to GOW

    All Nighter: Should go to GTA4 or Rock Band

    One to Watch: Will definatly go to LBP, although I don't know why everyone loves to watch grass grow...

    Online GOTY: Gotta be COD4

    PGOTY: Should be GTA4 or Rock Band, but will probably go to MGS4, even though that game, and all the others before it, sucked donkey b alls

    UGOTY: Hopefully GTA4, but again, might be the garbage that is MGS4, I traded it in the same day I bought it

    Most Wanted: Should have been FF XIII Vurses or RB2 or Resistance 2 or Killzone 2, but with that selection, gotta go with RE5, even though the game totally sux

  24. xRyanHatex | xRyanHatex

    • 4:20am BST - August 28th, 2008

    @23 Your taste in games is pretty bad. GTA didnt live up to the hype and thanks to little old MGS4 the PS3 has been outselling the 360 every month. :)

  25. bloodwarg | bloodwarg

    • 4:26am BST - August 28th, 2008

    most wanted award will go to fallout 3 easy

  26. jigglespsu

    • 4:36am BST - August 28th, 2008

    Well I've bought a lot of the bigger titles and to be honest they all completely sucked - most of them plagued with poor control schemes and iffy port-ness, I've not had nearly as much fun with any of them as I do with WarHawk. I've yet to play a top title that lives up to this one for longivity, variety, DLC, mayhem, difficulty or ease depending,shear pleasure not to mention ribbons badges and now trophies.

      None of these nominees I feel came even close to this quality of game.  But then again I still have to buy MGS4

  27. psycho_mantis | makaveli_71

    • 7:29am BST - August 28th, 2008

    if only MGS4 had more gameplay....then i think no game would be able to stand up to it.

  28. mortada

    • 10:39am BST - August 28th, 2008

    to say the truth it is a really cool collection of games but i think that their choices are rather built on the public opinion not expertss` perspective

  29. hush404 | hush404

    • 12:50pm BST - August 28th, 2008

    haze? Seriously!?

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