Voting has opened for the Golden Joystick Awards 2012, sponsored this year by retailer HMV.
This year, the awards are celebrating 30 years of rewarding the greatest videogaming achievements, and organisers are hoping to smash last year's record of over two million votes from the gaming public.
Voting is open now at goldenjoystick.com, with gamers invited to cast their votes in 16 categories, including the prestigious Ultimate Game Of The Year, won last year by Valve's masterful Portal 2. Those who vote in all categories will be in with a chance of winning the HMV Ultimate Gaming Prize, with over £4,000 of games, hardware and peripherals including an iPad 3, PS Vita and a Samsung Galaxy S3.
Robin Always, editor in chief of GamesMaster, said: "Three long decades ago, ZX Spectrum classic Jetpac flew away with the Game Of The Year honours in the first ever Golden Joystick Awards. To see where we've come makes me proud.
"Thirty years of dishing out the golden goodness means we're established, authoritative - but we still continue to recognise and celebrate who matters the most."
The HMV Golden Joystick Awards 2012 ceremony takes place on October 26 at the Westminster Park Plaza hotel in London, hosted by comedian Ed Byrne - and a few exclusive announcements are also on the cards. For more information or to cast your votes, follow the source link below.
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