Today, the Golden Joystick Awards announced this year's winners.
Resident Evil Requiem was the biggest winner of the night, taking home Ultimate Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer, and Best Lead Performer for the game’s star, Angela Sant’Albano (as Grace Ashcroft). Beyond Resident Evil, publisher Capcom was connected to a total of seven awards across all categories, including Studio of the Year, Best Audio Design for Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Best Supporting Performer for Grace Saif (as Diana) in PRAGAMATA.
Other big winners included Dispatch, which picked up two awards for Best Storytelling and Best Soundtrack, and indie hit MECCHA CHAMELEON, which won four awards: Best Multiplayer Game, Best Indie Game - Self Published, Streamers’ Choice, and Developers’ Choice.
The full list of Golden Joystick Awards 2026 winners are:
- Best Storytelling - Dispatch (public vote)
- Best Audio Design - Onimusha: Way of the Sword (public vote)
- Best Multiplayer Game - MECCHA CHAMELEON (public vote)
- Best Visual Design - CONTROL Resonant (public vote)
- Best Game Expansion - DOOM: The Dark Ages (public vote)
- Best Indie Game Self-Published - MECCHA CHAMELEON (public vote)
- Best Indie Game - Valheim (public vote)
- Best Gaming Hardware - Steam Controller (public vote)
- Studio of the Year - Capcom (public vote)
- Best Early Access Game - Subnautica 2 (public vote)
- Best Soundtrack - Dispatch (public vote)
- Still Playing - Mobile - Balatro (public vote)
- Still Playing - Consoles & PC - Minecraft (public vote)
- Streamers’ Choice - MECCHA CHAMELEON (critically chosen)
- Best Game Trailer - Resident Evil Requiem - Evil Has Always Had A Name (public vote)
- Best Remake / Remaster - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered (public vote)
- Developers’ Choice - MECCHA CHAMELEON (critically chosen)
- Best Game Adaptation - Iron Lung (public vote)
- Best Supporting Performer - Grace Saif, Diana, PRAGMATA (public vote)
- Best Lead Performer - Angela Sant’Albano - Grace Ashcroft, Resident Evil Requiem (public vote)
- PC Game of the Year - Crimson Desert (public vote)
- Console Game of the Year - Resident Evil Requiem (public vote)
- Critics’ Choice - Big Walk (critically chosen)
- Most Wanted Game - The Witcher 4 (public vote)
- Ultimate Game of the Year - Resident Evil Requiem (public vote)
Actor, Alix Wilton Regan (Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis) hosted the awards alongside guest presenters from the world of gaming including:
- Rare Ltd Composer, Chloe Kwok
- Art & Creative Director, Rex Crowle
- Paddle Paddle Paddle developer, Mateo Covic
- Interviewer, actor and presenter, Alices Pixels
- Resident Evil Requiem actor, Nick Apostolides
- STAR WARS: Galactic Racer actor and Wrestling’s Mr. Charles Crowley, Richard Summers-Calvert
- CD PROJEKT RED Production Director, Malgorzata Mitrega
- Composer, Richard Jacques
- CONTROL Resonant actor, Frankie Kevich
- Marvel’s Wolverine actor, Liam McIntyre
The Golden Joystick Awards honor the people and products that have transformed the games industry in 2026. The event features 25 categories, 22 of which are voted for by the global gaming public, plus three critically chosen awards: Streamers’ Choice, Critics’ Choice, and a new Developers’ Choice Award. The Golden Joystick Awards was first held in 1983 and is now the world’s longest-running publicly-voted gaming awards.
You can rewatch the show on YouTube now or catch up with the highlights on Instagram, X and Facebook. #GoldenJoystickAwards.
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