The Golden Joystick Awards, one of the oldest and biggest public-voted gaming accolades, returned for its 42nd year Over 12 million votes had been cast to crown the favourite games, companies, and personalities The Ultimate Game of the Year award has gone to Black Myth: Wukong Both Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Helldivers 2 have bagged the most awards,

It's unclear which game will win the title of GOTY at The Game Awards, but a recent Golden Joystick winner could be foreshadowing.

The votes have been cast and counted, and the winner declared: Black Myth: Wukong is the winner of Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024. After an astonishing launch that saw Black Myth: Wukong smash concurrent player records on its way to becoming the second highest-played game on Steam ever with more than 2 million players (beating the already astonishing peak set by Palworld earlier in the year,