Voting is now open for the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards, so you can help crown the PC Game of the Year

Now you can vote to your favorite video games within the forty second Golden Joystick Awards in classes like PC Sport of the 12 months and Console Sport of the 12 months. The polls will stay open till Friday, November 1, at 4pm PDT/7pm EDT/11pm GMT, so you might have a month to determine the place your loyalties lie. 

“2023 was one in all video gaming’s greatest years ever, with Baldur’s Gate 3 and Larian Studios claiming a report seven trophies finally 12 months’s Golden Joystick Awards,” content material director Daniel Dawkins says in a press launch. “2024 has been a difficult 12 months for the video games business in so some ways, however the selection and variety of releases during the last 12 months has made this probably the most troublesome—and thrilling—Golden Joystick Awards nominees record we’ve ever compiled.” 

I feel “difficult” is a little bit of an understatement, however it’s true that we have seen some unbelievable video games launched this 12 months. My present favourites, and video games I would wish to see take house an award embrace Ultros in Greatest Indie Sport, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree in Greatest Sport Enlargement, and Deadly Firm in Greatest Early Entry Sport. However there are such a lot of distinctive video games that deserve an award, it is in all probability going to be a good race. 

“Above all, this may very well be a 12 months of BIG surprises—who noticed Palworld, Helldivers 2, or Balatro coming,” Dawkins continues. “We will’t wait to see who you vote for as your video games, studios, and personalities of 2024!”

There are additionally a few classes which might be new to the Golden Joysticks: The Nonetheless Taking part in awards and a brand new indie sport class could assist ease all of the arguments surrounding what constitutes an indie sport. The Self-published class will “(hopefully) higher replicate how video games attain the market,” Dawkins says. 

The forty second Golden Joystick Awards will happen on November 21 in central London, and it’ll even be livestreamed. Nonetheless, crucial factor to recollect proper now could be that voting for the Final Sport of the 12 months (arguably crucial class) will not be open but. However it is possible for you to to vote for it on November 4, the identical day the shortlist of contenders will probably be introduced.