{"id":111019,"date":"2016-11-21T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111019"},"modified":"2016-11-21T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:52:30","slug":"the-golden-joystick-2016-winners-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111019-the-golden-joystick-2016-winners-have-been-announced","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Joystick 2016 winners have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longest-running video game awards has picked its list of winners for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest winner of the year was <strong>Overwatch,<\/strong> which took home the top prize in five different categories, however it lost the big <strong>Game of the Year<\/strong> award to <strong>Dark Souls III<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list of award winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Original Game in association with The Sun<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Storytelling<\/strong> &#8211; The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Visual Design<\/strong> &#8211; The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Audio in association with DTS<\/strong> &#8211; Fallout 4<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Indie Game in association with Kotaku UK<\/strong> &#8211; Firewatch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gaming Personality of the Year in association with Guinness World Records<\/strong> &#8211; Sean Plott (Day (9))<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Multiplayer Game in association with PC Gamer Weekender<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competitive Play of the Year in association with PC Gamer Pro<\/strong> &#8211; coldzera&#8217;s jumping AWP quad kill at MLG Columbus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Gaming Moment in association with Absolute Radio<\/strong> &#8211; Play of the Game in Overwatch<\/li>\n<li><strong>YouTube &#8211; Upcoming Personality of the Year<\/strong> &#8211; Jesse Cox<\/li>\n<li><strong>Studio of the Year in association with Edge<\/strong> &#8211; CD Projekt Red<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation of the Year<\/strong> &#8211; Pokemon Go<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong> &#8211; Eiji Aonuma<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Gaming Platform<\/strong> &#8211; Steam<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Gaming Performance<\/strong> &#8211; Doug Cockle as The Witcher 3&#8217;s Geralt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competitive Game of the Year in association with PC Gamer Pro<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nintendo Game of the Year in association with Gamesmaster<\/strong> &#8211; The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD<\/li>\n<li><strong>PlayStation Game of the Year in association with OPM<\/strong> &#8211; Uncharted 4: A Thief&#8217;s End<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xbox Game of the Year in association with OXM<\/strong> &#8211; Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/li>\n<li><strong>PC Game of the Year in association with PC Gamer<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Handheld\/Mobile Game of the Year in association with Digital Spy<\/strong> &#8211; Pokemon Go<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breakthrough Award<\/strong> &#8211; Eric Barone (Stardew Valley)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hall of Fame<\/strong> &#8211; Lara Croft<\/li>\n<li><strong>Critics Choice Award<\/strong> &#8211; Titanfall 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most Wanted Game in association with Green Man Gaming<\/strong> &#8211; Mass Effect Andromeda<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ultimate Game of the Year in association with GamesRadar+<\/strong> &#8211; Dark Souls 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Did your favourite make the cut? Who was a more deserving winner? Let us know in the comments below and\u00a0 in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest running video game awards has picked its list of winners for 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,23303,11458,20676],"class_list":["post-111019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-awardsm-prize","tag-golden-joystick","tag-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111027,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111019\/revisions\/111027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}