The Golden Joysticks truly are the people's gaming awards. Now in their glorious twenty seventh year, the Joysticks are also the oldest gaming awards ceremony in the world and the most prestigious - voted for by the only people who truly matter - gamers themselves.

From the truly humble beginnings when Radio One's Dave Lee Travis presented the first awards, the Golden Joysticks have evolved into one of the best loved and most successful gaming awards ever with over 850,000 votes cast in 2008 as gamers from around the world lined up to have their say.