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Annual video game award ceremony
The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People's Gaming Awards, is an annual video game awards ceremony; it rewards the best video games of the year. Although originally solely voted for by the British public, it is now a global event that is voted for online by millions of fans worldwide via GamesRadar+. Launched in 1983, the Golden Joystick Awards is the longest-running and one of the biggest public-voted video game award shows.
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Video game for a personal computer
A PC game, historically also known as a computer game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term PC game has been popularly used specifically to games on Windows software with Intel hardware known as Wintel, which has dominated the computer industry since the 1990s.
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Golden Joystick Awards released the 2026 shortlist, including PC Game of the Year. Voting is open until 23 October, per PC Gamer.
Big Walk, Crimson Desert, Valheim and seven more fight for PC Game of the Year. Golden Joysticks voting closes on Saturday morning October 24 in AU and NZ.