Golden Joystick Awards 2010

04/05/10 – Voting is now open for the 28th Annual Golden Joystick Awards and your votes will make all the difference as we gear up for the world’s biggest gaming awards.

Head on over to http://www.goldenjoystick.com now and have your say in as many of the 16 categories as you want. You’ll need to move quickly though; longlist voting runs only until Thursday, 27th May. Votes for the longlist will directly influence the nominations that appear in the shortlist stage of voting, which opens on 14th June 2010.

Make sure you show the very best games, developers, publishers and retailers the love they deserve. Don’t be afraid to nail your flag to the virtual mast and encourage your friends to join you in attempting to secure immortality for your favourites. To join up with like-minded fans, visit our website, check out the Golden Joystick Awards on Facebook and you can also follow http://www.twitter.com/GoldenJoysticks or use the hashtag #joysticks2010.

Breaking Joysticks’ tradition, we’ve made significant changes to the awards categories for 2010. No longer are there any console-specific awards, instead - the Joysticks will be awarded for the best titles in specific genres, including Fighting, Strategy and Music. We continue to celebrate UK talent with the ‘UK Developer of the Year’ category and the prestigious ‘Ultimate Game of the Year’ category remains, as does ‘One to Watch’, predictor of so many videogame hits over the years.

28th Annual Golden Joystick Award categories

• Action/Adventure

• Shooter

• Driving

• RPG

• Puzzle

• Fighting

• Sports

• Strategy

• Music

• Online

• Download

• Portable

• Soundtrack

• One To Watch

• UK Developer

• Ultimate

Organised by Future, the special-interest media group, The Golden Joystick Awards are voted for by the only people who matter – gamers. We’re proud to call the Joysticks the People’s Gaming Awards.

The Golden Joysticks have been the ultimate accolade in gaming since 1982 and are now recognised as the biggest and most popular gaming awards on the planet. A spectacular 1.2m public votes saw the Joysticks pick up a Guinness World Record in 2009.

Last year, Activision’s Call of Duty series dominated the event, scooping three awards, and gamer power won out as Fallout 3 was named ‘Ultimate Game of the Year’. Once again, the combined might of the online community was recognised when fans of Runescape, the world’s largest free MMORPG combined to get Jagex named ‘UK Developer of the Year’.

Visit http://www.goldenjoystick.com today and make your vote count!

ENDS

About Future

Future plc is an international special-interest media group that is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol FUTR). Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating over 180 special-interest publications, websites and events for people who are passionate about their interests. We hold strong market positions in games, film, music, technology, cycling, automotive and crafts. Our biggest-selling magazines include T3, Total Film, Digital Camera, Fast Car, Classic Rock, Guitar World, Official Xbox Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, Nintendo Power, Maximum PC and Mac Life. Our websites include gamesradar.com, bikeradar.com, techradar.com, and musicradar.com. Future produces over 4 million magazines each month; we attract more than 18 million unique visitors to our websites; and we host 25 annual live events that attract hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts. In addition, Future exports, syndicates or licenses its publications to 90 countries internationally, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of monthly magazines.

For more information

Will Guyatt, Media Relations Manager, Future UK, 01225 822517

Justin Crosby, Boom! PR, 0207 100 3999