Elden Ring scoops up four Golden Joystick Awards including the ultimate game of the year, plus a studio award.
Elden Ring Wins 4 Golden Joystick Awards 2022
It’s award season with plenty of awards to be given out celebrating this year’s amazing releases. It should come as no surprise that one of those major titles has just bagged itself four awards plus another awarded to the studio behind the game. Elden Ring has snagged titles Best Visual Design, Best Multiplayer Game, Critics' Choice Award and the Ultimate Game of the Year. On top of these four wins of the 40th anniversary of the awards, FromSoftware gains Studio of the Year which means a total of five wins. The Action-RPG also had five nominations which included being nominated for Playstation Game of the Year but lost out to the cat stealth title Stray.
Elden Ring Scores Four Wins Plus Best Studio
Winning Best Visual Design had Elden Ring beat the likes of the sequelHorizon Forbidden West, Ghostwire: Tokyo as well as the indie titleCult of the Lamb. Other contenders for Ultimate Game of the Year included Horizon,God of War: Ragnarokas well as Neon White. With fierce competition lining the nominees this year, congratulations to FromSoft on gaining what looks to be the first round of wins. you may check out the full list of winners and nominees below:
Best Storytelling
Still Playing Award
Best Visual Design
Studio of the Year
Best Game Expansion
Best Early Access Launch
Best Indie Game
Best Multiplayer Game
Best Audio
Best Game Trailer
Best Game Community
Best Gaming Hardware
Breakthrough Award
Vampire Survivors
Critics' Choice Award
Elden Ring
Best Performer
Nintendo Game of the Year
PC Game of the Year
PlayStation Game of the Year
Xbox Game of the Year
Most Wanted Game
Ultimate Game of the Year
Awards Season
Next month will beThe Game Awards 2022which already has Elden Ring placed as a nominee in six categories. You can head to the official website to cast your votes in the whopping 31 categories which covers Art Direction, Best Narrative, Best Roleplaying Game as well as Game of the Year. The colossal titles this year look to be betweenElden Ringand God of War Ragnarok which we already have a few thoughts on. Of course, you can also look forward to our own Fexy Awards 2022 which will be released next month as well.
Who is your favourite for Game of the Year (do we really need to ask?) Let us know in the comments below.
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