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If Only There Were Actually Video Game Awards This Funny

Kirk Hamilton — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:00:00 EST

Today, the nominees for the annual Spike TV VGA Awards were announced. It is a God-given right for people to bitch endlessly about awards shows, and so the moment the nominees were announced, a huge number of people jumped on twitter to joke, complain, and generally carry on about them. More »

We Totally Dominated That Last GameTrailers Episode and You Should Watch It

Owen Good — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Speaking of roofs (rooves?), GameTrailers TV went on ours in New York this week with Totilo, Crecente and Joel. Fahey is still en route, delayed by the hurricane. Boy is he gonna be pissed. More »

Don't Miss Tonight's Kotaku-Filled Episode of GameTrailers TV

Mike Fahey — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:40:00 EDT

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Tonight on Spike TV, Joel Johnson, Stephen Totilo, and Brian Crecente spend several minutes chatting with GameTrailers TV's Geoff Keighley on the roof of Kotaku's New York City headquarters about the big fall game releases, and not one of them ironically plummets to the street below. More »

Don't Miss This Week's Kotaku Trailers TV, Guest-Starring Geoff Keighley

Mike Fahey — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EDT

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Gawker's New York City headquarters is on fire in this week's episode of GameTrailers TV, as host Geoff Keighley shows the world how good three Kotaku editors look standing on a rooftop with the wind rustling their shirts. More »

See Two Minutes of BioShock Infinite's Award-winning E3 Demo, the Whole Thing Next Week on Spike TV

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:40:00 EDT

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Irrational Games has been slowly drip-feeding us portions of its behind closed doors, 14-minute-long E3 2011 demonstration of BioShock Infinite, a preview that helped the game secure the Game Critics' "Best of Show" and "Best Action/Adventure Game" awards. Soon, you'll be able to see it in its entirety. More »

Comedy Central And Spike TV Now Have Their Own Video Game Company

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:00:00 EDT

Someday, we may get The Daily Show: The Video Game or Spike TV Video Game Awards: The Game, thanks to the formation of 345 Games, the new video game arm of Comedy Central and Spike TV. The first two titles to come from that studio will be Deadliest Warrior: Legends and Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon, both for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, MTV announced today. More »

Hellboy Director's 'Lovecraftian' Horror Game Debuts On VGAs Next Month

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:00:00 EST

Mexican movie director Guillermo del Toro is making a game with publisher THQ—according to del Toro, anyway—a project that we'll see next month when the "truly strange, geeky mix" of a horror game is revealed. More »

VGAs Offer First Look At Medal Of Honor, Arkham Asylum 2 & More

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:30:00 EST

Tonight's Spike TV VGAs offered new video reveals that were part expected, part surprise. From the expected camp was EA's revitalized Medal of Honor, a modern day Middle Eastern shoot 'em up, seen in trailer form for the first time. More »

Meet Media Molecule's Little Big VGA Award, The Vector Monkey

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST

When Spike TV's telegenic hosts hand out awards at this year's VGAs show next week, this, the Vector Monkey as designed by LittleBigPlanet developers Media Molecule, is what winners will walk away with. Yes, Megan Fox, this could be yours! More »

What Is This Second Mystery Spike VGA Teaser For?

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST

Spike TV's annual Video Game Awards show promises a handful of brand new video game announcements, including (but not limited to) the previously teased Spec Ops revival and whatever this newly revealed title is. More »

Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST

GameTrailers TV host and extreme Twitter enthusiast Geoff Keighley has announced that the world premier for Halo: Reach will be aired during the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards. More »

GameTrailers TV Reveals Bethesda's Next Game Thursday

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:40:00 EDT

Keep your internal E3 hype-generating engine running smoothly, by tuning in to this week's GameTrailers TV. Especially if you want your first look at Fallout 3 developer Bethesda Softworks' next game. More »

First BioShock 2 Footage, "Major" Killzone 2 Announcement On Next GameTrailers TV

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:40:23 EDT

.html This week's episode of GameTrailers TV, now airing one day earlier, will be packed with the game footage exclusives you've come to expect... no, demand from Geoff Keighley and crew. More »

GameTrailers TV Gets Earlier, Much Earlier Time Slot

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:40:00 EDT

Spike TV's video game exclusive packed weekly video game show, GameTrailers TV, is getting a slightly more sane time slot and giving you some weekly Geoff Keighley face time an entire day earlier. More »

Left 4 Dead, Lost And Damned Exclusives Hitting GameTrailers TV

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:40:25 EST

This Friday's episode of GameTrailers TV promises us a look at two highly anticipated downloads for both Grand Theft Auto IV and Left 4 Dead, including exclusive footage of "what's next" for the latter. More »

A Raving, Rabid Spike VGAs TV Party

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:40:00 EST

Spike TV held its sixth annual Video Game Awards show in Culver City, California last night, honoring the biggest, best and brightest the game industry had to offer in 2008. Oh, did we say "honoring"? More »

God of War 3 Will Have Four Times The Texture Resolution

Brian Crecente — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:20:00 EST

God of War 3 will use a custom game engine that delivers four times the texture resolution of its predecessor, Sony Computer Entertainment said in a release today. More »

Watch Jack Black Turn On a 360

Brian Crecente — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:14:09 EST

Sure a lot of the bigger news and winners were spilled earlier today, but Jack Black is plenty of reason to tune in to watch the second half of Spike TV's Video Game Award. More »

The VGAs Getting There, One Step At a Time

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST

The New York Times has an interesting, albeit meandering, look at this Sunday's Video Game Awards show in their Media and Advertising section today. More »

GTA: Lost and Damned Gets Spike TV Airing

Brian Crecente — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:20:04 EST

Spike TV is really lining up the exclusives for their Video Game Awards show this time round. The latest goodie they've snagged is the world premier of Rockstar Games' first Grand Theft Auto IV episode for the Xbox 360. More »

No Painted Nearly Naked Girls, But Girls

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:00:00 EST

Last year's Spike Video Game Awards uses nearly naked ladies instead of envelopes with paper to announce the winners. Hardly traditional, the VGA had woman painted with game motifs walk on stage. But what about at this year's show? More »

The Uncharted 2 Teasing Teasered

Brian Crecente — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:00:00 EST

Gone are the sunny environs of Uncharted. Uncharted 2, from what we can guess after watching this exceptionally short teaser, will feature more snow than sun and sand. Is that some sort of Aztec sacrificial knife? We're told we will be seeing more of the game during the airing of the upcoming SpikeTV Video Game Awards. More »

Fight Night Round 4 Publicly Unveiled Dec. 14

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:30:12 EST

GameStop managers and the odd journalist have already seen Fight Night Round 4 on the big screen, but come December 14th everyone else will get to see it too. Oh sure, we've seen blurry shaky-cam footage that in no way gives us the proper visuals to over-scrutinize and pick apart and that simply will not do. The world premiere of EA Sports' boxing franchise will hit during the Spike TV Video Game Awards next month. The "ultimate boxing match up" from EA Canada does have at least one thing going for it — the inclusion of video game boxing legend Mike Tyson. His style is impetuous! He wants to eat your children! More »

Spike TV Announces Nominees for 6th VGAs

Brian Crecente — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:20:00 EST

It's going on six years now that Spike TV has been handing out awards to game developers on television for the year's best video games and each year, it seems, the show gets just a touch better. More »

Play Gears 2 First By Playing Gears 2 For Real

Mike Fahey — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:20:00 EDT

Do you want to play Gears of War 2 early? Bad enough to star in a reality show based on the game? Microsoft and Spike TV are looking for a few good men and women to be featured in a real-life televised Gears adventure, with getting your hands on Gears of War 2 a month early at stake. More »

Vomit on People in Zombie Left 4 Dead

Brian Crecente — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EDT

We already knew that the zombies would be playable in certain modes of Valve's upcoming thrill-shooter Left 4 Dead, but I bet you didn't know they would be vomiting zombies. More »

Spike TV Kicks Off Madden 09 Tonight

Mike Fahey — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:20:00 EDT

I honestly cannot think of a better channel to host a special countdown to the launch of EA's Madden NFL 09 than good old Spike TV. This is the audience the channel was born to capture. They'll have Geoff Keighley broadcasting live from the Rosebowl, a performance by Good Charlotte, and a special presentation of the movie Rudy. Of course hardcore East Coast Madden fans will have already left to fill their bellies with beer before waiting in line to get the game at midnight, but perhaps they'll leave their TVs on at home to help a station out. More »

CoD: World At War Debuts On GameTrailers TV Friday

Mike Fahey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT

It's time to remember which channel Spike TV is on your cable box this Friday as GameTrailers TV features a world-exclusive first look at the next game in the Call of Duty series, Call of Duty: World at War. Developed by the people's second choice for CoD Treyarch, the game promises to redefine the WWII genre, which I really need to see to believe. More »

Hot Chicks In Stupid Game-Related Clips

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:00:00 EDT

If G4's old show Cheat - The Pringles Gamer Guide taught us anything, it was that cheat shows just don't work. The odds of someone looking for cheats and hints just happening to stumble upon a video for the exact game they are curious about before resorting to GameFaqs are just too high to even bother. They even tried replacing the host with a hot woman, and that didn't work out...but was it a scantily clad hot woman? SpikeTV combines cheat codes with attractive women in a way that slips right past sexy into a giant pile of stupid. "It takes more than one shot to take me out baby!" Don't waste your bullets. More »

The Force Unleashed Hits September

Brian Crecente — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:20:00 EDT

The Force Unleashed hits the U.S. on Sept. 16, Southeast Asia and Australia on Sept. 17 and Europe on Sept 19., LucasArts announced today. More »

Guess Who's On GameTrailers TV Tonight?...

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:20:27 EST

Guess Who's On GameTrailers TV Tonight? Just me, Michael McWhertor, unfortunately. If you're up late on a Friday and want to watch a sweater-off between me and GT TV host Geoff Keighley, one in which we occasionally wax about the big games of 2008, tune into Spike TV at 1 AM. Oh, it's so worth staying up for, especially if my statements about Xbox 360 furries haven't been left on the cutting room floor. Bold predictions and regrettable assumptions, plus fodder for mocking my opinions and fashion choices, will make for a great way to kill some AM hours. Don't miss it! Or do! Whatever! More »

GameTrailers TV Debuts Tonight. GameHead...

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:30:03 EST

GameTrailers TV Debuts Tonight. GameHead is dead. Long live GT TV! The Geoff Keighley hosted video game show makes its triumphant debut tonight at the wee hour of 1 AM on Spike TV. The gang will be exclusively showing off Tiberium and Dark Sector in addition to broadcasting some drunken arcade gaming from LA's Barcade. If you're short on energy and trucker speed, the show will be available soon on Xbox Live and Gametrailers.com. More »

Patton Oswalt Calls Spike VGAs "Godawful"

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:20:00 EST

Comedian Patton Oswalt, who, in addition to lending his voice talents to Pixar's Ratatouille, was responsible for handing out this year's "Most Addictive Game Fueled By Dew" at the Spike Video Game Awards. Shockingly, Halo 3 won that coveted prize. Who would've ever thought it possible? Anyway, Mr. Oswalt had less than kind words for his stint on the Spike VGAs, as he filed it under "Godawful" in his most recent MySpace blog entry. Something tells me Patton won't be invited back after referring to Spike's annual ode to the best in gaming as a "bullshit award show" as the VGAs and its ilk "herd a bunch of confused teens into an airplane hangar, assault them with lights and noise and explosions, and get them to yell at nothing." More »

Game Head Ends, GameTrailers TV Begins

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:20:00 EST

After two and a half years as the best thing to watch if you were home sick on a Friday night without anything better to do, Spike TV's Game Head is ending its run, but fear not for former Kotaku Geoff Keighley. He returns to the network triumphantly in January as the host of GameTrailers TV, and he's bringing along a posse with him. GameTrailers.com's Daniel Kayser and Amanda MacKay will be joining Geoff on the new show, which will feature event coverage, news, and of course, world premier video game trailers.

"I think of it as Game Head on steroids because we'll have more resources and coverage," Keighley says. "It broadens the events we can cover around the country and the world."

Visitors to the GameTrailers website will be able to upload questions before the shows that might be included in the show itself, giving the whole thing a sort of ghetto interactivity that really makes me miss G4TV.com. GameTrailers TV premiers January 25th in that awesome 1am time slot. More »

Spike TV Video Game Awards: Winners, Losers and Boozers

fdemarco — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:00:00 EST

In a fitting (almost) ending to my six day cross county road trip to move myself from Atlanta to San Francisco, I landed in glamorous Las Vegas last night just in time for the Spike TV Video Game awards. I wasn't quite sure what to expect having never attended a "major" awards show before, but I sat down fueled by five days on the road and a few drinks with my pad and paper to bring you all the big announcements. More »

Watch Me, Some Other People On Game Head Tonight

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:40:00 EST

Tonight's episode of Game Head features, according to the show's producers, "the best cast in the Universe." A bold claim, indeed, but when that group includes Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, ESPN's Aaron Boulding, the Mega 64 gang, Gizmodo's Adam Frucci, MTV's Stephen Totilo, Michael Pachter and I am 8-Bit Founder Jon Gibson, I find it hard to disagree. Unfortunately, the list also includes me, a weighty anchor who will drag the whole production down. If my performance on the episode requires defending, as I haven't seen it, I was drunk during the taping. More »

Foo Fighters Performing At Spike's VGAs

Mike Fahey — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:20:45 EST

If you were planning on attending the Spike TV Video Game Awards in Las Vegas this Friday and are Foo or Foo-related, then you'd better come armed. The channel has announced that multi-platinum recording artists Foo Fighters will be performing live at the event as a sort of promotional Rock Band tie-in sort of deal. With that in mind, I'd expect they'd be performing "Learn To Fly" from the game, perhaps one of my favorite songs from the band. I might have to make my way over to the house of someone with one of them new-fangled cable-TV boxes to check it out when the show airs on Sunday night - if not for the Foo Fighters, then for the MTV Games' Rock Band platform set up on the red carpet, which will encourage celebrities to embarrass themselves publicly. This brings me joy. More »

Game Head Takes On Thompson Tonight

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:40:27 EST

Tonight on Spike TV's Game Head, the man forever to be known as former Kotaku guest editor Geoff Keighley will be taking on everyone's favorite and possibly former Florida lawyer in a bit of debate from this year's VGXpo in Philadelphia. The show promises a look at the real JT...his cause, his opposition, and "what his son's friends in high school say about him". Intriguing! With the fate of JT's professional career hanging in the balance at the moment his time in the spotlight might be waning, so you really should get as much Jack in your system as you can, just in case. That could be taken multiple ways, and most likely should be. You have to be up at 1am Eastern to catch the show anyway, so you might as well party. More »

Sam Jackson Hosting Spike Game Awards (Surprise!)

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:48 EST

Everyone's favorite thespian and all around bad muthafucka Samuel L. Jackson will once again host Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards in Vega$. This is the third year in a row for Mr. Jackson to host the event — so either he likes it or it likes him! Other celebrities in attendance include Tia Carrera, Dave Navarro and Flynn De Marco. The show airs Sunday, December 9th. So if you have a TV, flip it on. If not, read a book or stare at the wall. More »

Spike 2007 VGA Nominees Announced

geoff — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EST

The Spike TV Videogame Awards are coming up on December 9. Over at Spike.com they've posted the list of this year's nominees, decided on by a panel that includes Kotaku's own Brian Crecente and this week's guest editor Geoff Keighley. For Game of the Year, the nominees are Orange Box, Mass Effect, BioShock and Halo 3. Check out all the other nominees over on the official site. More »