Another year, another round of questionable award choices. What a surprise! ;)

Voice acting for Geralt? Adam Jensen? Pfft. For the first: Serviceable? Yes. Good? Come on! I've seen accountants with more emotion than him. Never mind the fact he has exactly the same monotone drone in other games as well. As for Adam, he was part machine before the machine parts.

All those No Man's Sky nominations sure make me raise an eyebrow.

Youtube personality of the year? *insert giant eye roll* Ugh.

Awards are pointless anyway. Most of them have judges who are tied to the nominated games somehow and the value of any award is so low nowadays where you can get awards for cool trailers and for convincing E3 devotees. After all, awards are just top 10 or top 5 lists with a trophy for being in the top 3. And all of them will have something to peddle the pretentious games as well. Overall games award shows are just cringe.

With such a topic title, I expect at least a link to the awards, if not a list of the winners.

Well, here it is: http://www.gamesradar.com/golden-joysticks-all-winners-year/

Still doesn't help me much though, with 17 domains wanting to run their scripts on the page, leaving me to wonder what scripts I should allow with NoScript to be able to see the results. Guess I'm off to a browser run in Sandboxie and allow all (see image).

Are you sure this is 2016? Most of the winners are from 2015. And so many sponsored awards, whatever that means.

You're correct, that's the 2015 winners. Here a link to the 2016 vote: link

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ANd once again STeam is considered THE PC platform.

No option to vote for GoG, Original and others for Best platform.

They could just put PC as a platform. That would be pretty much fair for every client. But nope, gotta advertise Steam.

Innovation of the year candidates : http://www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoystickawards/#innovation-of-the-year
TL;DR Guitar Hero Live, Oculus, Vive, PSVR, No Man's Sky, Pokemon Go and Quantum Break. Wow, very depressing.

EDIT : nevermind, everything there is depressing. Niantic as developer of the year? Steam as a platform? There are FIFA youtubers? This is why I stick to youtube top 10s........

I guess I don't get it, since there isn't a single joystick in any of those categories. On the upside, the description for Steam starts out with "DRM platform".

At least they got that part right.

that's supposed to be innovative ?

..good lord almost makes me want to start a binge drinking habit
the world would stil be fucked up but i wouldnt notice or care

cheers for the link

What a farce. Where are Golden Keyboard Awards?

Tell that to Zork fans. ; )