{"id":5510,"date":"2017-11-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/zelda_breath_of_the_wild_won_ultimate_game_of_the_year_at_the_golden_joystick_awards"},"modified":"2017-11-17T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:00:00","slug":"zelda-breath-of-the-wild-won-ultimate-game-of-the-year-at-the-golden-joystick-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-won-ultimate-game-of-the-year-at-the-golden-joystick-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda: Breath of the Wild Won Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re heading into awards season, and Nintendo will fancy its chances of scooping quite a few. Today brought the Golden Joystick Awards in London, with the UK event being rather interesting for relying almost exclusively on public votes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s with that in mind that Nintendo&#8217;s wins are certainly very welcome, with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> taking the top award and four in total, while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_sun_and_moon\">Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon<\/a><\/strong> also joined in. There was also a win for the Nintendo EPD team; the relevant results are below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<ul>\n<li>Best audio &#8211; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/li>\n<li>Studio of the year &#8211; Nintendo EPD<\/li>\n<li>Handheld\/mobile game of the year &#8211; Pokemon Sun and Moon<\/li>\n<li>Nintendo game of the year &#8211; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/li>\n<li>Critics&#8217; choice award &#8211; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Game of the Year &#8211; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We particularly liked Aonuma-san&#8217;s joke around the late release of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> affecting its chances of accumulating votes. We&#8217;re sure the two heavy-hitters will both pick up awards as the year wraps up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re heading into awards season, and Nintendo will fancy its chances of scooping quite a few. Today brought the Golden Joystick Awards in London, with the UK event being rather interesting for relying almost exclusively on public votes. It&#8217;s with that in mind that Nintendo&#8217;s wins are certainly very welcome, with The Legend of Zelda: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}