Fortnite named Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards

This year's Golden Joysticks, the GamesRadar Games Rewards, have been announced and Fortnite was named the ultimate game of the year. The mobile fighting game made a splash this year, but the prize is a surprise for anyone expecting criticism to be critically acclaimed. Red Dead Redemption 2 take the highest honor. Red Dead Redemption 2 was not ignored – he won the Critics' Choice Award. Other notable awards are the mobile game of the year, awarded to Mobile PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds, Best competition game that has also been rewarded Fortniteand the Esports game of the year that went to Overwatch.

These awards demonstrate that a kind of fracture is opening between story-based and single-player games such as Red Dead Redemption and multiplayer online fighting games like Fortnite. The history of PC gaming is heavily geared towards single-player games, in part because fast Internet connections were less common in recent years than today, but during over the past decade, the popularity of multiplayer and mobile games has exploded. With the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 There is no single player mode above Fortnite Becoming such a sensation, it seems that the multiplayer is about to win this battle in the long run.

There was a prize specifically for story-based games distributed as well though, and the Best Storytelling Award went to God of the war, which also won the honors of Best Visual Design and Best Sound, as well as the name of PlayStation 's Play of the Year. The overflowing and diverse category of independent games has also been rewarded with the award for best independent game for Dead cells. The game of the year on Xbox went to Forza Horizon 4, The PC game of the year went to Subnauticaand the Nintendo year game went to Traveling Octopathus.

The Golden Joystick Awards are voted online by members of the public and attract millions of voters each year. This year's ceremony was broadcast continuously on Twitch and was held at Bloomsbury Big Top on November 16, 2018, hosted by Danny Wallace.