1.2 million gamers cast their votes for the 27th annual Golden Joystick Awards, and named Fallout 3 as the ultimate game of 2009, whilst awarding a hat-trick of accolades to the Call of Duty series of games. The winners were announced yesterday in London and organizers announced a 47% increase in the number of voters from last year, setting a new record for gamer input into handing out these awards.

In 2008 Call of Duty 4 took out four separate awards, and this year the Activision Blizzard series went on another winning streak, picking up “Multiplayer Game of the Year” and “Nintendo Game of the Year” for Call of Duty: World at War and the “One to Watch” award for the forthcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. 

Activision Blizzard also picked up the “Soundtrack of the Year” award for Guitar Hero: World Tour, as well as the “Publisher of the Year” award, which seems fitting for a company with so much success in the other award areas.

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Three new Nirvana tunes, and four new Foo Fighters tracks will be available for players of Rock Band as of next week, which should make fans of Dave Grohl very happy. These new additions will be available for download via the Rock Band Music Store, and the LEGO Rock Band Music Store on Xbox 360, PS3 and the Wii. New tracks from System of a Down and Bullet for My Valentine will also be available next week for Rock Bank Unplugged on the PSP.

The new Nirvana tracks coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of the band's debut album, Bleach, in 1989. The Nirvana Bleach Pack includes three classic songs from that album, About a Girl, Blew and School. Each track is available individually for Wii.

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