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News! We have news! Welcome to a packed News Round-Up, featuring a lot of award winners, very few downloads and some great news regarding the Zelda Anniversary eShop cards.

Golden Joystick winners announced

The 2011 Golden Joystick Awards were held this week in their customarily ridiculous time of year for an awards ceremony, and the winners are in! For those that don’t know, the GJA are a fan voted awards ceremony, with the public voting in a wide array of categories. Below are the winners this year (and a deserved win for Portal 2 as GOTY).

Best Action Game
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Best Mobile Game
Angry Birds Rio

Best RPG
Fallout New Vegas

Best MMO (subscription)
World of Warcraft

Best Fighting Game
Mortal Kombat

Best Racing Game
Gran Turismo 5

Best Sports Game
FIFA 11

Best Strategy Game
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Best Music Game
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

Best Free-To-Play Game
League of Legends

Best Downloadable Game
Minecraft

Best Shooter
Call of Duty: Black Ops

One to Watch
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Innovation of the Year
Nintendo 3DS

Outstanding Contribution (Non-Fan voted)
Sonic The Hedgehog

Ultimate Game of the Year
Portal 2

First Skyward Sword reviews are in

We’re now just four weeks from the release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and review scores have started to appear, with the first two coming from UK outlets. Official Nintendo Magazine gave the game a 98% score, making it their highest rated game ever, and this was followed by an even more impressive 10/10 from Edge. The scores currently place it as the highest rated game of all time, so we will see how it fares in the coming weeks as more reviews come in.

Anniversary eShop cards coming to UK

Nintendo have revealed that the very cool looking Zelda 25th Anniversary pre-paid eShop cards will be hitting UK stores later in the year. Set at a fixed price of £15, the cards can be used on any system and come in three designs – an Anniversary edition, a Skyward Sword edition and an Ocarina 3D edition. We’ll let you know when these are spotted at retail.

Kirby’s Adventure 3D in November

Announced at the 3DS Conference this week, the 3D Classics re-make of SNES game Kirby’s Adventure will arrive on November 17th for £5.40. This marks only the second time that a big Nintendo franchise has received this treatment, so hopefully it is a sign of things to come.

This Week’s Downloads

Pyramids – 3DS eShop – £3.60
The rarest thing on Earth has re-appeared – a third party eShop release!

FAST – Racing League DEMO – WiiWare – Free

Academy: Checkers – DSiWare – 500 Points

Wii, 3DS and DS Sales Charts

Wii Chart
1) Just Dance 3
2) Zumba Fitness
3) Mario Kart Wii
4) FIFA 12
5) Just Dance 2
6) Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
7) Super Mario Galaxy 2
8 ) Phineas & Ferb: Across The Second Dimension
9) Cars 2
10) New Super Mario Bros Wii

3DS Chart
1) Rayman 3D
2) Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D
3) FIFA 12
4) Rabbids 3D
5) Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever
6) Star Fox 64 3D
7) Asphalt 3D
8 ) LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean
9) Pilotwings Resort
10) Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Shadow Wars

DS Chart
1) LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean
2) Phineas & Ferb: Across The Second Dimension
3) Cars 2
4) Art Academy
5) New Super Mario Bros.
6) Mario Kart DS
7) Pokémon Black Version
8 ) Pokémon White Version
9) 1001 Touch Games
10) Happy Party With Hello Kitty And Friends

And finally…

Good news for 3D video/sheep fans. The Shaun the Sheep cartoons promised earlier this year will now be released next year.