30-10-2015 20:42
The 33rd Golden Joystick Awards were held at the indigO2 at LondonÔÇÖs O2 Arena. During the event, the late Satoru Iwata was honored with a Lifetime Achievement award.
HereÔÇÖs the news on that front:
Cita:Satoru Iwata, the Nintendo CEO who sadly died in July this year at the age of 55, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. A revered man of the gaming industry, Satoru was the driving force behind many of Nintendos products including the Wii and DS, and is credited for bringing gaming to the masses by making it family entertainment. Starting out as a programmer in the 1980s for a subsidiary of Nintendo, he became president in 2002, the first outside of the companys founding family. He was renowned for first and foremost being a gamer and was described as  having the brain of a game developer and the heart of a gamer. His contribution and impact on modern gaming is second to none.
Splatoon also saw a couple of wins at the Golden Joystick Awards. The Wii U title was chosen as ÔÇ£Best Family GameÔÇØ and ÔÇ£Best Nintendo GameÔÇØ.
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