Voting for the Golden Joystick Awards prize for 2020 has already begun with several VR nominees in several categories.
Online the ceremony will take place in November, and for the General public will be available 18 categories. Several categories, including “Ultimate Game of the Year”, has not yet made the short-list, but the bulk of the short lists of the ceremony are ready.
A special category for virtual reality, so the equipment of the game and the Studio of virtual reality scattered in many different areas, creating stiff competition. This year there is at least one nominee for VR in half of the total categories, which is a great recognition of extensive years in the industry.
Strangely enough, Oculus Quest 2 is nominated for best Playground equipment, despite the fact that is not yet available to the General public. Given that this is the award given by public vote, is quite a strange situation. Quest 2 will reach their customers a few weeks before the polls close.
Here is a list of each categories, which is represented by VR, the VR selected nominees:
Best audio
The Last of Us: Part II
Ghost of Tsushima
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Paradise Killer
Call of Duty: Warzone
Half-Life: Alyx
Streets Of Rage 4
Resident Evil 3
The best gaming community
Fall Guys
Minecraft
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Dreams
Sea of Thieves
Warframe
Fortnite
Final Fantasy XIV
The best expansion of the game
Control: AWE
No Man’s Sky: Origins
Total War: WARHAMMER 2 — The Warden and the Paunch
Pokemon Sword & Shield — Expansion Pass
Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.3 — Reflections in a Crystal
The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
11 Mortal Kombat : Aftermath
The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon
The best gaming equipment
PC Engine Mini
Oculus Quest 2
Razer Kishi Mobile Pad for xCloud
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
TCA Airbus Sidestick Edition
Vulcan 120 Aimo Keyboard
Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2
Best visual design
Ghost of Tsushima
Hades
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Spiritfarer
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Half-Life: Alyx
The Last of Us Part II
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Game of the year on PC
Paradise Killer
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Hades
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Crusader Kings III
Valorant
Half-Life: Alyx
Death Stranding
Game of the year on PlayStation
The Last of Us Part II
Nioh 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Marvel’s Iron Man VR
Spelunky 2
Dreams
Fall Guys
Studio of the year
Mediatonic
Naughty Dog
Respawn
Paradox Studios
Sucker Punch
Infinity Ward
Media Molecule
Supergiant Games
Wonderful to see great VR games such as Saints & Sinners , Alyx and Iron Man VR denominated in the same categories on some of the best games of the year for PC and consoles. It will be difficult to take home the gold, but as they say, life happens.
38-I ceremony of delivery of awards “Golden joystick” will be held next month, the vote is available here .
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