Future Publishing has announced that the 25th Annual Golden Joystick Awards will take place on 26th October.

Celebrating excellence in video gaming across the board, the Golden Joysticks are the longest-established video games awards in the world and the only UK awards voted for by the public. With last year's event registering more than half a million votes, the race is on to reach one million votes in this 25th anniversary year.

The Golden Joystick Awards were first held in 1982 when Atari, Commodore and Spectrum ruled the Earth, and Donkey Kong terrorised arcades up and down the country.

With the full award line-up for 2007, voting details and the star presenter to be announced in the coming weeks, the Golden Joystick Award partners The Sun, Nuts, Bliss and BBC 1Xtra are back on board for this year's event.

The final results of this year's Golden Joystick Awards will be announced at the now infamous awards ceremony, held at London's Park Lane Hilton. Once again, the event will be broadcast live on the CVG website, cvg.co.uk.

Viewers can see the Golden Joystick Awards 2006, hosted by Justin Lee Collins, exclusively at goldenjoystick.com.