The big winners in the Golden Joystick Awards 2008

The votes have been counted, the numbers crunched, the joypads finally put down and the curtains drawn onto a cold autumnal morning, as the results of the Golden Joystick Awards 2008 have been announced with no real shocks, surprises or curve balls being thrown by the gaming public it seems. In fact it's as clear as the aforementioned autumnal morning which game has clearly triumphed across the board this year; Activision-Blizzard's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It scooped the awards for best multiplayer and was the ESA PC Game of the year too with gaming website GamesRadar.com also voting it online game of the year. To round off a great haul of awards, Activision-Blizzard were also voted as the Future UK Publisher of the Year. And it doesn't end there with the Call of Duty series with Play.com nominating the next installment of the series, Call of Duty: World at War as the One to Watch for next year.

In other awards, Rockstar North were voted as the CVG.co.uk UK Developer of the year, an award that went alongside Grand Theft Auto 4's triumph in the awards for the BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year (remember this the next time you're performing a drive by to the backdrop of Evil Woman by ELO, a stranger juxtaposition I cannot think of....) and also the Arvato Digital Services Xbox Game of the Year. The full round up of the awards presented are show below;

Nuts All-Nighter Award – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
The Sun Family Game of the Year – Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Bliss Handheld Game of the Year – Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
4Talent Mobile Game of the Year – Bejeweled 2
Mobile Game Pitch 2008 – Tobias Rowe with Finders Keeper
Official Nintendo Magazine Game of the Year – Super Smash Bros Brawl
ESA PC Game of the Year – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Activision-Blizzard Retailer of the Year – Play.com
Official Playstation Magazine High Definition PlayStation Game of the Year – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year – Grand Theft Auto IV
Arvato Digital Services Xbox Game of the Year – Grand Theft Auto IV
Edge Most Wanted Award – Fallout 3
GamesRadar.com Online Game of the Year – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
CVG.co.uk UK Developer of the Year – Rockstar North
E4.com Grand Master Flash Award – Stickman Madness
Play.com One To Watch – Call of Duty: World at War
Future UK Publisher of the Year – Activision-Blizzard
Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare