Oblivion Rules the 2006 Golden Joystick Awards

October 27, 2006

The 2006 Golden Joystick Awards has been dominated by Oblivion, scooping PC Game of the Year, Xbox Game of the Year and Ultimate Game of the Year.

In other categories:

• T3 Innovation Award - Xbox Live Marketplace 
• Bliss Girl’s Game of the Year - Nintendogs
• The Sun Family Game of the Year - Nintendogs
• Handheld Game of the Year - GTA:Liberty City

Other winners saw Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter running off with the Editor’s Choice Award and, strangely, Online Game of the Year going to Age of Empires 3. Strangely, because I would have thought that World of Warcraft would have been a more popular vote than AoE.

In the “Totally Pointless Award” category, the PS3 took the award for “One to Watch for 2007″.

For the PS3 to be deserving of anything other than a roll of the eyes, perhaps the category should have been called the “Overhyped, Overheating, Oh God When Will This Thing EVER Be Released Award”. Maybe next year….

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