Golden Joystick Awards Unveiled

Portal 2 has been crowned the best diversion of the year at the Golden Joystick video diversion awards.

It beat contest is to tip honor from the likes of LA Noire, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Gran Turismo 5.

With more than two million votes throw opposite 14 categories, organisers affirm it is the greatest video games endowment rite in the world.

However this year, with no diversion winning more than a award, there was no specific standout title.

Angry Birds one after another its apparently unstoppable way up to the tip of the smartphone gaming world, with the best mobile endowment for its Rio edition.

The greatest seller of the final 12 months, Call of Duty: Black Ops, had a still rite by the series' standards, picking up only a award, best shooter.

In the best sports diversion difficulty FIFA 11 pipped its opponent Pro Evolution Soccer.

But the large leader at the awards was Portal 2 - a initial person puzzle-platform diversion that sees players perplexing to make it by a array of chambers by using a special gun to emanate portals.

The diversion has moreover been praised for its humour, with Stephen Merchant - from The Office and Extras - providing the voice for a of the characters.

Arguably the second many poignant honor is the a to watch award, and that went to Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - great headlines for its makers forward of next month's release.

Meanwhile, the excellent grant drum was won by Sonic The Hedgehog, who is celebrating 20 years given initial being denounced by Sega.

David Corless, Sonic brand director, mentioned the hedgehog was a eternal disposition who had transcended video games and whose allure had been lengthened by the bang in smartphone gaming.

"It's truly singular in any forms of media that TV or cartoons for kids can continue for such a long time. Even in a video diversion it's truly rare.

"The fact that Sonic is still around and still carrying out together with he is is fantastic, and covenant to the small blue fuzz as you call him."

Mr Corless updated that Sonic's normal opposition with Nintendo's Mario was right away a thing of the past.

"It was a Blur contra Oasis thing about 10 or 15 years ago, but they not long ago assimilated forces and appeared in a few games together.

"We've put all those dim days at the back us," he joked.

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