The 2023 Golden Joystick Awards took place earlier today, and Starfield took home the Xbox Game of the Year award! In other words, the best game on Xbox. It may seem obvious, but the same did not happen on PS5, without exclusives. The GOTY award for PlayStation was Resident Evil 4 Remake, a cross-platform game!
Bethesda’s epic RPG beat out Dead Space, Hi-Fi RUSH, Planet of Lana, Chants Of Sennaar, and Pentiment to take the prize, while Resident Evil 4 that it The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom Tears It received the equivalent awards for PlayStation and Nintendo respectively. Yes, even Final Fantasy XVI and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 couldn’t snatch the award from Capcom.
The “Ultimate GOTY” award went to Baldur’s Gate 3, which ended up taking first prize, taking home seven very impressive prizes in total. The game is about to arrive on Xbox, standing alongside Starfield and Diablo IV as the best RPGs of the year.
We are honored to win @X-Box Game of the year this year #Golden Joystick Awards! Thank you all for the support ✨ @GoldenJoysticks #Starfield pic.twitter.com/Pz1rB0VvGR
– Starfield (@StarfieldGame) November 10, 2023
Here are all the winners from this year’s event (if you want a full list of nominees, go to GamesRadar):
- Best Nonfiction – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Prize Still Playing – No Man’s Sky
- Best Visual Design – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Studio of the Year – Larian Studios
- Best Game Expansion – Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
- Best Indie Game – Sea of Stars
- Best VR Game – Horizon: Call of the Mountain
- Best Multiplayer Game – Mortal Kombat 1
- Best Soundtrack – Final Fantasy XVI
- Best Game Trailer – Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
- Best Live Streaming Game – Valorant
- Best Gaming Community – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Gaming Consoles – PSVR 2
- Revelation Prize – Geometric Cocoon/Interactive
- Critics’ Choice Award – Alan Wake II
- Best Lead Artist – Ben Starr, Final Fantasy XVI
- Best Supporting Artist – Neil Newburn, Astarion, Baldur’s Gate 3
- Nintendo Game of the Year – The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom Tears
- Best PC Game of the Year – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Xbox Game of the Year – Starfield
- PlayStation game of the year – Resident Evil 4
- UGOTY – Baldur’s Gate 3
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