The winners and trailers of the 32nd Golden Joystick Awards

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Gaming Platform of the Year in association with GamesRadar

First Place: Steam

Second Place: PS4

Third Place: Google Play

Lifetime Achievement

Winner: Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions. Check out his acceptance speech below!

Game of the Year in association with Green Man Gaming

First Place: Dark Souls II

Second Place: Hearthstone

Third Place: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and now I'm a staff writer here at GamesRadar.

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