Our Picks For The Golden Joystick Awards 2012

Best DLC

• Asura’s Wrath – Rya
• Batman: Arkham City – Harley Quinn’s Revenge
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution – The Missing Link
• FIFA 12 – EURO 2012
• Gears of War 3 – Raam’s Shadow
• Hitman Absolution – Sniper Challenge
• Portal 2 – Perpetual Testing Initiative
• Rock band 3 – Gold Star My Heart
• Sniper Elite V2 – Kill Hitler
• SSX – Tricky
• Skyrim – Creation Kit
• Skyrim – Dawnguard
• The Gunslinger – Wavy Tube Man Chronicles
• The Witcher 2 – Enhanced Edition

Winner: Hitman Absolution, Portal 2 or The Witcher 2. 

Unlike other undecided categories, this hasn’t been a particularly good year for DLC. Once a delightful extension to a game paying lip service to fans is now an obligatory omission from the core game, generally at huge expense to the player. EURO 2012 was a horrible example of this, the FIFA series and international body in a nutshell and unless we stop paying for this sort of triple-fried arse on toast, we’ll continue down this path for a good while yet.