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Call of Duty 4 cleans up at Golden Joysticks

Activision title takes four awards while sequel bags the One to Watch award

Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has cleaned up at the Golden Joystick Awards, taking place in London today.

The game won the Nuts All-Nighter Award, UK ESA PC Game of the Year, GamesRadar Online Game of the Year and the Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year. The next call of Duty title – World at War – also bagged the Play.com One to Watch award.

Other winners included Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock which took The Sun Family Games of the Year and Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, which took away two gongs.

The full list of winners follows:

Nuts All-Nighter Award: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The Sun Family Game of the Year: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

bliss Handheld Game of the Year: Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

4Talent Mobile Game of the Year: Bejeweled 2

Mobile Game Pitch 2008: Tobias Rowe with Finders Keeper

Official Nintendo Magazine’s Nintendo Game of the Year: Super Smash Bros.

UK ESA PC Game of the Year: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Activision Blizzard Retailer of the Year: Play.com

Official Playstation Magazine High Definition PlayStation Game of the Year: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year: Grand Theft Auto IV

Arvato Digital Services Xbox Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto IV

Edge Most Wanted Award: Fallout 3 GamesRadar.com Online Game of the Year: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

CVG.co.uk UK Developer of the Year : Rockstar North

E4.com Grand Master Flash Award: Stickman Madness

Play.com One To Watch: Call of Duty: World at War

Future UK Publisher of the Year: Activision Blizzard

Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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Matt Martin joined GamesIndustry in 2006 and was made editor of the site in 2008. With over ten years experience in journalism, he has written for multiple trade, consumer, contract and business-to-business publications in the games, retail and technology sectors.
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