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Resident Evil Requiem wins Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks
GamesRadar has published the full 2026 Golden Joystick Awards list. Resident Evil Requiem won Ultimate Game of the Year and Console Game of the Year, and Angela Sant'Albano won Best Lead Performer.
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GamesRadar, which organizes the Golden Joystick Awards, has published the full list of 2026 winners. Resident Evil Requiem won Ultimate Game of the Year and Console Game of the Year, and Angela Sant'Albano won Best Lead Performer for her work as Grace Ashcroft.
GamesRadar also says Requiem tied with MECCHA CHAMELEON at four awards each, the most of any game this year. This article is not calling the night a sweep for any publisher.
Requiem, MECCHA CHAMELEON, and Capcom
Requiem's other two awards on the GamesRadar list are Best Game Trailer, for "Evil Has Always Had a Name," and Best Lead Performer. MECCHA CHAMELEON won Best Multiplayer Game, Best Indie Game - Self-Published, Streamer's Choice Award, and Developers' Choice.
Capcom was named Studio of the Year. Other Capcom titles also appear on the list: Onimusha: Way of the Sword won Best Audio Design, and Grace Saif won Best Supporting Performer for Pragmata.
The full winners list, as published by GamesRadar
- Best Storytelling: Dispatch
- Best Audio Design: Onimusha: Way of the Sword
- Best Multiplayer Game: MECCHA CHAMELEON
- Best Visual Design: CONTROL: Resonant
- Best Game Expansion: DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations
- Best Indie Game - Self-Published: MECCHA CHAMELEON
- Best Indie Game: Valheim
- Best Gaming Hardware: Steam Controller
- Studio of the Year: CAPCOM
- Best Early Access Game: Subnautica 2
- Best Soundtrack: Dispatch
- Still Playing Award - Mobile: Balatro
- Still Playing Award - PC & Console: Minecraft
- Streamer's Choice Award: MECCHA CHAMELEON
- Best Game Trailer: Resident Evil Requiem - Evil Has Always Had a Name
- Best Remake/Remaster: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered
- Developers' Choice: MECCHA CHAMELEON
- Best Game Adaptation: Iron Lung
- Best Supporting Performer: Grace Saif (Pragmata)
- Best Lead Performer: Angela Sant'Albano (Resident Evil Requiem)
- PC Game of the Year: Crimson Desert
- Console Game of the Year: Resident Evil Requiem
- Critics' Choice Award: Big Walk
- Most Wanted Game: The Witcher 4
- Ultimate Game of the Year: Resident Evil Requiem
That is 25 categories, matching the list published on GamesRadar's winners page.
The takeaway
The official GamesRadar list has Resident Evil Requiem as Ultimate Game of the Year and Console Game of the Year, with Angela Sant'Albano as Best Lead Performer. Requiem and MECCHA CHAMELEON finished tied at four awards each, and Capcom won Studio of the Year. Those results are the awards organizer's published tally.
Cover image: The London skyline from Waterloo Bridge, photographed by Diliff (David Iliff). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Golden Joystick Awards are a UK-based show; the photo is a city view, not an awards-ceremony still.
Key facts
- Ultimate GOTY
- Resident Evil Requiem, per GamesRadar
- Console GOTY
- Resident Evil Requiem
- Best Lead Performer
- Angela Sant'Albano (Resident Evil Requiem)
- Most awards
- Requiem tied MECCHA CHAMELEON at four wins each, per GamesRadar
- Studio of the Year
- Capcom