The 27th Annualis alive! F🌸rom today you can vote for your favourite games of the past year in the official awards long list and h🧸elp us break records all over again.

If you remember rightly (and we do) 2008 was a recording breaking year for the Golden Joysticks. The fiಞnal votes total stood at an amazing 856,262, the big winner of which was (deservedly) Call of Duty 🐬4: Modern Warfare with four Awards.

Above:Girls loveGolden Joysticks. Fact

In 2009 we're hoping to achiev🐷e even bigger numbers ♚- but we can only do it with your help.

Ki✱llzone 2, Left 4 Dead, Empire: Total War and Gears of War 2 are among the biggest releases eligible for the awards this year, and the only way you can make sure your favourite is in the running for a gong is by voting on the Golden Joysticks website.

Above: Not sure what they won. Probably nothing

But if you're just in it for the prizes there are, of course, many up fo🌄r grabs - ev🥃ery 100,000th vote will win a big value freebie!

Go on then, head over to theand cast your votes.

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