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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 with their respective Spike VGA Awards debut trailers. More »
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Over the weekend, the Spike Video Game Awards were held. While you would have seen a few people get up on stage, there were a lot more people in attendance. Lots of developers, yeah, but lots of celebrities as well. More »
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"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 over the weekend, and I agree 100%. Complaints over the show and its format are getting as tiring as the show itself, so let's spare each other the routine of throwing our arms on our hips and pontificating as to how we'd drastically change the thing, turn it into something "we" think "our" industry somehow deserves. More »
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Fortnite, revealed last nite (rimshot) at the Spike Video Game Awards, is one of those games whose elements seem to be either derivative or easily recognizable, yet an easy description remains tip-of-the-tongue elusive. It's a got resource gathering, but it's not really Minecraft; cartoony characters, but you can't say it's Team Fortress; zombies and headshots, but it sure isn't Left 4 Dead; and a post-apocalyptic setting, but it's definitely not Brink, Rage or Borderlands. More »
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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. More »
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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 plenty of strange scenes on the stage and in the crowd, from the puerile to the cringe-inducing to the bizarre. More »
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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. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter during Spike TV's Video Game Awards show tonight, but not without causality. More »
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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was voted the "cover star" for January's reboot of NFL Blitz at the Video Game Awards tonight. Of course, Blitz is a downloadable title, so this game actually has no physical cover. So that means Rice won't actually tear his ACL in the playoffs after the game releases on PSN and Xbox Live, right? More »
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Fresh off a week of denying reports that he's retiring, the creator of Mario and Zelda was caught on camera rocking out to a little live music from The Black Keys during the VGAs tonight. More »
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Mr. Winning just tweeted this, seconds ago. I can't wait to see how this disaster unfolds. More »
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This is Alan Wake: American Nightmare, the downloadable sequel to Remedy's 2010 narrative game for the Xbox 360. In it, the protagonist author Alan Wake fights against his murderous doppleganger. More »
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If you win an Oscar and ramble through your acceptance speech, the orchestra will drown you out and the cameras will cut away. More »
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Told from the terrorists' perspective, this is the debut trailer for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Patriots, shown moments ago at the Spike Video Game Awards. Even given its fuck-the-man tone, it was little weird hearing the crowd cheer that suicide bombing with such verve. More »
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The VGA Awards Mass Effect 3 trailer has hit, demonstrating one way to handle a gigantic intelligent robot creature hell-bent on the extinction of everything: Giant bug sex. More »
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Just announced at the Spike Video Game Awards, BioWare's next project is a Command & Conquer sequel entitled Command & Conquer: Generals 2 More »
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The PS3 exclusive title The Last of Us is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio that brought us the Uncharted Trilogy. More »
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Here's a pure hype video for Tekken Tag Tournament 2, to be shown later tonight at the Spike Video Game Awards. Namco says it'll be here for the holiday season next year. More »
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If you're somewhere without a cable television or, worse, no television at all, you can still follow the action from tonight's 2011 Spike Video Game Awards live, right here. Courtesy of Spike and MTV Networks, we're glad to bring you live streaming video of the broadcast. More »
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Oh man. Heisman Trophy? or Spike Video Game Awards? Heisman Effing Trophy? Or Spike Effing Video Game Awards? We have this problem every year. Actually, I'm going Spike, because the Heisman, unlike the VGAs, doesn't tell you what next year's big games will be. More »
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Though some theories hold that the next Mercenaries game is the mystery reveal EA and BioWare have planned for the Video Game Awards, the smart money is still on a Command & Conquer game. And if that's the case, it'll probably be called Command & Conquer: Alliances if 15 domain registries by Electronic Arts are any indication. More »
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The Spike Video Game Awards is less of an awards show and more of a smorgasbord of new game announcements. There's another one coming here, a PS3 exclusive teased in this trailer. The URL it references, lastofus.com, has a concealed registrant and is currently not active. Update: Now it is. More »
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Though not a retail release, the January reboot of NFL Blitz will still have a cover star, following a fan-voted campaign taking place during the Spike Video Game Awards next weekend. More »
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The nominees for 2011's Video Game Awards include a number of expected and unexpected titles. This full list doesn't just include the nominees for game of the year, and best game for each platform, but the titles that stood out in their particular genres. More »
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Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception all made the cut for the annual Video Game Awards' game of the year shortlist. But you may be surprised what didn't. More »
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To keep the show to two hours, they didn't hand out all the hardware on stage at last night's 2010 Video Game Awards. Here is the complete list of honorees. Neil Patrick Harris' compensation was limited to just one award. More »
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Uncharted 3 opens with Nathan Drake once again facing deadly circumstances, perhaps not as imminent as a train hanging from a cliff. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception arrives Nov. 1, 2011. This premiere is entirely in-engine, says studio Naughty Dog. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5712309&view=rss&microfeed=true That's what they're calling it, anyway. As promised, Prototype 2 arrives next year in 2012, and here is the game's debut trailer from the Spike Video Game Awards More »
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The PS3 exclusive hits Sept. 6, according to this trailer, which just aired at the 2010 Video Game Awards in Los Angeles. The clip combines live action cinematics with gameplay sequences. More »
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Tipped earlier in the week, this Mortal Kombat trailer at the 2010 Video Game Awards makes it official: Kratos is a kombatant in the PS3 version of the game. More »
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The debut trailer for Batman: Arkham City just aired at the 2010 Video Game Awards. Batman's nemesis this go around will be Dr. Hugo Strange, who knows the Dark Knight's darkest secret. More »
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Equal parts Oscars and E3 keynote - well, maybe more folks are tuning in for the latter - the 2010 Video Game Awards are on, live on both coasts, on Spike TV. We'll be breaking out news as it happens. More »
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Capcom-Unity trucked down to L.A. for the Spike Video Game Awards and staged a big E-Tank giveaway to pimp Mega Man 10. Check out what the happy campers got! More »
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I'll respectfully disagree with Geoff Keighley, the announcement of Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 doesn't quite deliver the "biggest surprise premiere!" thrill he told us to expect. Granted, the Spike Video Game Awards have a history that is all of seven broadcasts long. More »
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These two minutes come from the opening cinematic of Halo: Reach, establishing the story of Noble Team, assigned to defend the planet. An accompanying press release announced the multiplayer beta - invitations included in Halo 3:ODST - begins Spring 2010. More »
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Correction: I misidentified this as a trailer from the 2009 Video Game Awards. While it is new, it is from the IGN Ultimate Video Game Gift Guide, which aired on Fox before the VGAs. More »
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At the Video Game Awards, Samuel L. Jackson just took the stage (describing himself as a "bad ass motherf—-er") to announce Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. More »
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Kotaku's Michael McWhertor is in L.A. for tonight's video game awards, where Mark Hamill told him he was asked to do a trailer for a sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum. Update: Looks like that game has been announced. More »
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Not sure if this is the "biggest surprise premiere in VGA history" we've been promised, but MTV put up a "Green Day: Rock Band" video dated three days into the future, then pulled it. Embed code still works, though. More »
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THQ's acclaimed UFC 2009 Undisputed is up for a Video Game Award, which make's Spike's broadcast this Saturday the perfect time to debut the mixed martial arts title's highly anticipated sequel. More »
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