The short list will be announced on June 1, and then it’s up to you to make sure your favourite games get the recognition they deserve. Some of the categories are incredibly close to call, so your vote really could make all the difference.

Head on over to the Golden Joystick Awards’official siteto have your say!

May 15, 2009

The short list will be announced on June 1, and then it’s up to you to make sure your favourite games get the recognition they deserve. Some of the categories are incredibly close to call, so your vote really could make all the difference.

Head on over to the Golden Joystick Awards’official siteto have your say!

May 15, 2009

If you remember rightly (and we do) 2008 was a recording breaking year for the Golden Joysticks. The final votes total stood at an amazing 856,262, the big winner of which was (deservedly) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with four Awards.

Above:Girls loveGolden Joysticks. Fact

In 2009 we’re hoping to achieve even bigger numbers - but we can only do it with your help.

Killzone 2, Left 4 Dead, Empire: Total War and Gears of War 2 are among the biggest releases eligible for the awards this year, and the only way you can make sure your favourite is in the running for a gong is by voting on the Golden Joysticks website.

Above: Not sure what they won. Probably nothing

But if you’re just in it for the prizes there are, of course, many up for grabs - every 100,000th vote will win a big value freebie!

Go on then, head over to theGolden Joysticks websiteand cast your votes.

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That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June - mere days after E3 - eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.