🎮 Resident Evil Requiem wins the top prize at the Golden Joysticks
Capcom's latest survival horror game won four Golden Joystick Awards, and the Japanese studio took studio of the year as the series turns 30.
The mystery
Most Golden Joystick prizes are chosen by gamers themselves in a worldwide public vote. With strong rivals such as Phantom Blade Zero and Crimson Desert in the race, which game did players pick as the best of the year, and what else stood out?
The answer
Resident Evil Requiem, released in February, took the biggest award, winning 17% of votes from the public. It also won the prizes for best console game and best trailer, and Angela Sant'Albano, who plays new heroine and FBI agent Grace Ashcroft, was voted best lead actor. Its maker Capcom collected the studio award too. Of the 25 categories, 22 are public votes; critics, streamers and developers pick the rest. The indie hide-and-seek game Meccha Chameleon, in which you colour yourself to vanish into the background, won four awards. Critics' choice went to Big Walk by House House, a studio criticised this week over reports that it used generative AI late in development without saying so.
Now think about this
Should game studios have to say clearly when they use generative AI to make a game?
