The 27th annual Golden Joystick Awards has crowned last year’s excellent Fallout 3 as the Ultimate Game of the Year, while Activision Blizzard walked away with the Publisher of the Year award.

Games eligible for recognition at this year’s Golden Joystick Awards had to have been released between May 22, 2008 and May 22, 2009, which means that, while more recent titles weren’t on the voting ballots, there was still a wealth of quality titles to consider, as popular UK retailers and successful UK developers were also up for nomination.

After garnering 1.2 million votes from the public, the winners in each of the 15 categories of this year’s Golden Joystick Awards are as follows:

Family Game of the Year

- LittleBigPlanet

Bliss Handheld Game of the Year

- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Retailer of the Year

- GAME

Mobile Game of the Year

- Metal Gear Solid Touch 

Nintendo Game of the Year

- Call of Duty: World at War

MSN Multiplayer Game of the Year

- Call Of Duty: World At War

The Rampage Soundtrack of the Year

- Guitar Hero World Tour

Xbox Game of the Year

- Gears of War 2 

PC Game of the Year

- Fallout 3

Amiqus Games UK Developer of the Year

- Jagex

PlayStation Game of the Year

- Killzone 2

Publisher of the Year

- Activision Blizzard

Online Game of the Year

- Left 4 Dead 

ShortList One to Watch

- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Ultimate Game of the Year, together with Zavvi.co.uk

- Fallout 3