A Game Every Year, but Never a Game of the Year
Madden.
Don't Like the Winners from the 2012 VGAs? Get a Second Opinion from…
The gang from 343 Industries, BioWare and Telltale Games stuck around in Los Angeles a second night to take home more honors, as Machinima's fourth Inside Gaming Awards handed out its hardware on Saturday, a day after the Video Game Awards.
The Biggest Winners Helped This Year's VGAs Tell a Different Tale
If the Video Game Awards are actually an awards show, and not just a keynote for promoting upcoming games, then the big news from last night was The Walking Dead: The Game. Eminently quotable analyst Michael Pachter said before the show that if this title, a downloadable self-published game, took home Game of the Year, …
BioShock Infinite Shoots Up The VGAs With An Explosive New Trailer
At the 2012 Video Game Awards, Ken Levine of Irrational Games previewed the latest trailer from BioShock Infinite, which is now releasing on March 26. This appears to be entirely in-game footage, with 75 seconds of that being straight gameplay and not cinematics.
If Samuel L. Jackson Cameoed in Black Ops II, He'd Look Like This
Completing his cameo tour of the year's biggest games, this is Samuel L. Jackson appearing in what he calls "The real motherf—-ing Black Ops."
Well how about that. Telltale Games' The Walking Dead is the 2012 Video Game of the Year.
Half-Life 2 was selected "Game of the Decade" at the 2012 Video Game Awards.
This is All We Know About "Moby Dick Studio", Alleged Makers of The…
The Phantom Pain was a world premiere trailer out of left field—not only is that a new series, it's a new studio. Well, to most folks, anyway. Ever heard of Moby Dick Studio? Me either.
And This is Mace Windu as an Angry Bird
Samuel L. Jackson, host of the 2012 Video Game Awards, is cameoing in some of the year's most noteworthy games. Here he reprises his Jedi master role in Angry Birds: Star Wars.
Dark Souls II Debuts at the 2012 Video Game Awards
Dark Souls II just got a world premiere trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards. It's coming for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. See for yourself. Looks... tough, and unforgiving. As usual.
Dark Souls II is Coming
Dark Souls II was just announced at the Video Game Awards. There's a grab from the game's trailer. The trailer presents a quest driven by some sort of romnace and graphics that look a great deal sharper than From Software's previous Souls efforts.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Resurrects Dracula in the Modern Day
We knew some kind of sequel to the last Castlevania game was coming, and a new trailer shown during the VGAs offered up a ton more info.
The Last of Us will release on May 7, 2013, per its trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards.
South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets a Hilarious Trailer, but No…
As irreverent and ribald as you expect South Park to be, here is the trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth, which premiered at tonight's Video Game Awards. It gives you a look at the game's playable classes, plus all sorts of cameos from the show's long run, and elsewhere. No release date, though it is expected…
Whatever It Is, The Phantom Pain Looks Very Intense
The first all-new game given a trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards is The Phantom Pain, and it seems almost deliberately confusing and vague. That's fitting given its premise, in which a veteran awakens in a hospital after a long coma, with his left hand amputated. In come the troops hellbent on exterminating the…
Watch The 2012 Video Game Awards Live Right Here!
Alright, folks. The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV ain't just Sam Jackson handing out a bunch of monkeyfighting awards to some Monday-to-Friday games. In fact, one could argue that is the least interesting purpose of what is essentially an E3 keynote in December.
The Xbox Fan-Voting Stuff for Tonight's VGAs Is Actually Pretty Cool
Tonight's Video Game Awards on Spike TV will also be streamed online (including here at Kotaku) as well as through the Xbox 360. It's via the 360 that viewers will be able to cast votes to tweak the show and one of its exclusives.
Watch A Bit of Kotaku On The Second-Screen Version of the VGAs Tonight
It's a big night for video games. We've got Spike TV's 10th annual Video Game Awards airing live at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Some of you may tune in to see which games and developers win top honors. I bet a lot of you are going to be most interested in the pile of world premiere trailers and game…
A Kotaku 5-Player: Will the VGAs Announce a Flash Game? Or Wonder…
As news goes, the Video Game Awards are more about the future games they will tease than the existing ones they honor. Kotaku will be in Los Angeles on Friday covering the gala. Here is an internal chatroom discussion among Stephen Totilo, Luke Plunkett, Mike Fahey, Kirk Hamilton and yours truly as we try to pin down…
Entertainment Weekly Picked The 10 Best Games Of the Past 10 Years. Be …
Why wait for a year ending in nine or zero or one to pick the best games of the past decade? Entertainment Weekly is picking the best games of the decade this year, 2012. It's not that they wager the world is ending and that we're wrapping up the final decade ever. It's that Spike TV's Video Game Awards show is running …
For Your Consideration: The Second Annual Saxxy Awards
Valve has opened the voting for the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2, and a winner shall be crowned on Nov. 30. Why so soon? Well, because the best overall winner is going to be announced at the Spike Video Game Awards on Dec. 7, and the video is going to be shown live.
Behind the Music of Transformers and BioShock Infinites' Moving VGA…
Ever since Epic's Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" game creators have been attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond between gamers and game through evocative music. Let's see how good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite did of it …
The Spike VGAs Red Carpet Had Celebrities, Developers (and Sometimes…
Over the weekend, the Spike Video Game Awards were held
The "Spike Holiday Video Game Extravaganza" Might be a Better Name
"The Spike Video Game Awards are not everyone's ideal version of a video game award show, and complaining about them has become an annual event, like the show itself." Totilo wrote that
A Night-and-Day Comparison Best Describes Fortnight
Fortnite, revealed last nite
The Baron and the Exec
The Spike Video Game Awards can always be counted on to supply awkward moments, but they're usually a celebrity bombing a joke with a hamfisted, if not intoxicated delivery. Last night we got something different, and no, we're not talking about the teabagging spree.
The 2011 VGAs: All the Videos, All the Games, All the Awards
The Spike Video Game Awards are an event that says more about the coming year than it does about the current one. Last night gave us more than a dozen trailers, half of which concerned games about which we knew nothing, or next to nothing, before Zachary Levi started handing out the hardware. As to that, there were…
The Winners and Nominees of the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards
GAME OF THE YEAR
Mark Hamill, Tara Strong (aka The Joker and Harley Quinn) Both Miffed…
The two lead voice actors from this year's Batman: Arkham City ripped the Spike Video Game Awards on Twitter last night. They both lost in their respective categories, but, they said, that's not why they'e complaining.