Resident Evil Requiem wins Golden Joysticks’ Ultimate Game of the Year
The November 11 results also recognise Dispatch, Meccha Chameleon and Big Walk. Public-vote prizes and critically chosen awards are separate categories.
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Resident Evil Requiem won Ultimate Game of the Year at the 44th Golden Joystick Awards in London on November 11. The organiser’s results list identifies that prize as a public vote. Big Walk won the separate, critically chosen Critics’ Choice award.
This brief and the full story below are based on the disclosed sources. SearchTrends Daily’s interpretation appears later under “Our take.”
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Resident Evil Requiem won Ultimate Game of the Year and Console Game of the Year at the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards, according to the organiser’s November 11 results announcement. The game also received Best Game Trailer, while Angela Sant’Albano won Best Lead Performer for Grace Ashcroft.
Dispatch won Best Storytelling and Best Soundtrack. Meccha Chameleon received Best Multiplayer Game, Best Indie Game Self-Published, Streamers’ Choice and Developers’ Choice. Big Walk won Critics’ Choice, while The Witcher 4 took Most Wanted Game. Independent reporting by GamesBeat corroborates these results.
The organiser labels 22 of the event’s 25 categories as public votes. Streamers’ Choice, Critics’ Choice and Developers’ Choice are listed as critically chosen. Ultimate Game of the Year should therefore not be described as the Critics’ Choice result.
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These are the reports, official records, and trend observations used to build the story. The note under each link explains exactly what it contributes.
November 11 organiser press release: winners, category names and public-vote versus critically chosen classifications.
Read original source ↗GamesBeatGolden Joystick Awards honors BioWare, crowns Resident Evil RequiemRachel Kaser’s November 11 independent report corroborates the principal winners and category results.
Read original source ↗GamesRadar / Golden Joystick AwardsGolden Joystick Awards 2026: See the winners revealed on Nov 11Organiser event guide provides the London venue, host and pre-ceremony voting context; the separate results release supplies the winners.
Read original source ↗Wikimedia Commons / Doyle of LondonTroxy, Limehouse (North Face - 02).jpgArchive photograph source, creator, September 17, 2023 capture date and CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Read original source ↗SearchTrends Daily opinion
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Analysis
What the evidence and search signal suggest
Our assessment: Requiem’s top public-vote win is a clear result of this ceremony. It does not establish a consensus across every awards body or predict the outcome of later events. Big Walk’s separate Critics’ Choice award illustrates why the selection process belongs alongside the winner’s name.
Analysis and commentary are SearchTrends Daily’s interpretation. They are intentionally separated from the sourced account above.
Meaning
Why this matters
The awards recognise different kinds of achievement and use more than one selection process. Knowing the category and how it was chosen makes a winners headline more informative than treating every trophy as the same verdict.
Background
How we got here
The ceremony was the 44th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards. Organiser GamesRadar’s event guide identified Troxy in London as the venue and Alix Wilton Regan as host. The event’s nominations and voting preceded the November 11 results; a nomination list is no longer the latest account of the outcome.
Outlook
What is likely to happen next
The organiser has published its results and links to a replay of the ceremony. Readers comparing games can use that record to distinguish individual categories; the results are not a substitute for a review or a guarantee that a game will suit every player.
Image credit: Doyle of London, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Archive photograph of Troxy’s north face in Limehouse, September 17, 2023. Resized and displayed with the site’s crop; adaptations remain available under the same licence. Venue context only, not the November 2026 ceremony, its audience or a game screenshot.
A conditional editorial assessment based on the evidence available at the review date, not a guaranteed outcome.
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The category matters as much as the trophy count.