Congratulations to Epic Games and People Can Fly developing companies, designer Cliff Bleszinski and the publisher Microsoft Game Studios, for the awards won for the Ultimate Game of the Year, All-Nighter Award, Editor's Choice Award and is the Xbox Game of the Year, all these for Gears of War video game built on Unreal Engine 3.0.




Other important awards were for Innovation of the Year, won by Nintendo Wii, Online Game of the Year won by World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, Nintendo Game of the Year won by The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and PlayStation Game of the Year won by God of War II.

Next we have:

• Girls' Choice Game of the Year 2007: Guitar Hero II
• Family Game of the Year 2007: Wii Sports
• Handheld Game of the Year 2007: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
• Mobile Game of the Year 2007: Final Fantasy
• Soundtrack of the Year 2007: Guitar Hero II
• Developer of the Year 2007: Codemasters
• The Total Film One to Watch 2007: Assassin's Creed
• Retailer of the Year 2007: Game
• Publisher of the Year 2007: Nintendo
• PC Game of the Year 2007: The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

The Golden Joystick Awards ceremony was webcast live on the Internet for the first time at this year’s 25th edition.