The winners and trailers of the 32nd Golden Joystick Awards
Gaming Platform of the Year in association with GamesRadar
First Place: Steam
Second Place: PS4
Third Place: Google Play
Lifetime Achievement
Winner: Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions. Check out his acceptance speech below!
Game of the Year in association with Green Man Gaming
First Place: Dark Souls II
Second Place: Hearthstone
Third Place: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
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I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and now I'm a staff writer here at GamesRadar.
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