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Well, at least 856,262 of you to be exact. The 2008 Golden Joystick Awards have been released. Voted in by the general gaming public, the Golden Joystick Awards are the world’s oldest gaming awards ceremony.

Celebrating its 26th year, the ceremony is held in the United Kingdom. Each award category has their own sponsor, the most important part about these awards are that it’s done by us gamers. However, the highlight this year was the introduction of a new category ‘Grand Master Flash’. And the award ceremony was quite a bash.

A full list of the awards and highlights after the jump.

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As controversial as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is he’s always been very supportive of Japanese pop culture and exporting it to the world (alledgedly as a means of world domination). An ouspoken Manga fan, Prime Minister Abe is now proposing a Foreign Manga Award that would be given to the top manga creators outside Japan. Mr. Abe has wants this award to be the ”Nobel Prize of Manga”, something I’m sure Alfred Nobel would be very proud of.

Also, anyone else think this will eventually be awarded to Doujinshi artists, furry included and webcomic artists (read: Fred from Megatokyo)? Or will anybody dare and say Manwa?

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While everyone else is going crazy about who just won the Oscars that just might not mean a thing to you. So here are the winners of the first American Anime Awards, which happened this Saturday. Go crazy, flame the results, praise the winners, whatever suits you.

Best Cast: Fullmetal Alchemist
Best Manga: Fruits Basket
Best Male Actor in a Comedy: Dave Wittenberg (Zatch Bell)
Best Actress in a Comedy: Debi Derriberry (Zatch Bell)
Best Theme Song: Rewrite (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Best Anime Feature: Final Fantasy 7 - Advent Children
Best Package Design: Fullmetal Alchemist
Best Anime Comedy: FLCL
Best Actress: Mary Elizabeth (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG)
Best Anime Short Series: FLCL
Best Anime Long Series: Fullmetal Alchemist

Yes a lot of those are american voice actors, people apparently do watch dubbed anime! Congratulations to the winners!

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The Academy of International Arts and Sciences has just announced the nominations for the 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Award, and to no one’s surprise, Gears Of War is nominated on very important categories like: Console Game of the Year, Action / Adventure Game of the Year, and Overall Game of the Year.

The Legend of Zelda: TP and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion also appear with 6 nominees each. Add to the match the infamous Guitar Hero II and the addicting Wii Sports and watch the brutal fight for the “Game of The Year” Award.

[Joystiq]