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Resident Evil Village Wins 2021 Golden Joystick Award For Game Of The Year

And a dark horse pick for Ultimate Game of All Time

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November 24, 2021

The 2021 Golden Joystick Award winners have been announced, with Capcom’s Resident Evil Village being voted as the Ultimate Game of the Year. In addition to the usual awards recognising outstanding games and gaming talent from the last 12 months, this year’s event also included two special categories commemorating 50 years of video games – with the PC taken out the award for Ultimate Hardware of All Time, and FromSoftware’s Dark Souls winning Ultimate Game of All Time.

This was the 39^th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards, presented by GamesRadar and hosted by the iconic Uncharted voice acting duo of Nolan North and Emily Rose. The awards were voted on by millions of gamers online, with Resident Evil Village winning a total of four categories. We gave Capcom’s latest survival horror game a 9 in our review, saying that ‘Resident Evil Village is a technical masterpiece, featuring a fantastically realised and foreboding setting with a great sense of balance between action and horror elements.’

Full List of 2021 Golden Joystick Award Winners:

Best Storytelling – Life is Strange: True Colors
Best Multiplayer Game – It Takes Two
Best Audio – Resident Evil Village
Best Visual Design – Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Best Game Expansion – Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island Expansion
Mobile Game of the Year – League of Legends: Wild Rift
Best Gaming Hardware – PS5
Best Indie Game – Death’s Door
Studio of the Year – Capcom
Best Performer – Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil Village)
Breakthrough Award – Housemarque
Best Gaming Community – Final Fantasy XIV
Still Play Award – Final Fantasy XIV
PC Game of the Year – Hitman 3
Xbox Game of the Year – Psychonauts 2
PlayStation Game of the Year – Resident Evil Village
Most Wanted Game – Elden Ring
Critic’s Choice Award – Deathloop
Ultimate Game of the Year – Resident Evil Village
Ultimate Hardware of All Time – PC
Ultimate Game of All Time – Dark Souls

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Written By Harry Fritsch

Harry's friends got sick of him talking about video games all the time, so he decided to express his passion for them online. When Harry isn't cosied up with a good fantasy novel, chances are he'll be grinding his way through a JRPG or obsessively completing a metroidvania.