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The Winners and Nominees of the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards
GAME OF THE YEAR The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Nominees: Batman: Arkham City; The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword; Portal 2; Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception STUDIO OF THE YEAR Bethesda Game Studios Nominees:Naughty Dog; Rocksteady Studios; Valve BEST XBOX 360 GAME Batman: Arkham City Nominees:Forza Motorsport 4; Gears of War 3; Portal 2 BEST PS3…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mark Hamill, Tara Strong (aka The Joker and Harley Quinn) Both Miffed about the VGAs
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. Mark Hamill, doubly famous for his roles as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars and as The Joker in Batman…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to listener-supported public radio WTAY, bringing you the best in smooth jazz each Sunday. We’re counting on you to come through this pledge drive, so won’t you please pick up that phone, give me a call, and order me a pizza? I’ll send you a Metal Gear Revengeance Tote Bag and The New…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Oddman Out
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Dec. 5.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 9.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
DJ Loses Unreleased PS Vita in LA Cab
Following a night of performing live at the Video Game Awards on Spike TV, famed DJ Deadmau5 apparently left a yet-to-be-released PS Vita sitting in a L.A. cab. Joel “Deadmau5” Zimmerman tweeted about the loss shortly before 1 a.m. pacific time. “FUCK! I left my PSP Vita in a fuckin cab, calling cab company and…
By Brian Crecente Published December 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch Metal Gear‘s Creator Breakdown and Apologize A lot
During the VGA Awards, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima took the stage and introduced the new trailer for Metal Gear: Rising. Things didn’t go smoothly. At all. Whether Kojima was simply nervous or there was a teleprompter problem, I don’t know. I do know that things went south pretty quick. As someone who gets nervous…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedMichael Bay, This is How you do Transformers
Hot damn. I know it’s just a pre-rendered trailer, and I know the song is corny, but this 1:47 of Transformers action spoke to me more as a Transformer fan than Michael Bay’s three films put together. It’s the Spike Holiday Video Game Advertising Extravaganza Spike Video Game Awards trailer for the upcoming action game…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedBioShock: Infinite Trailer Looks and Sounds Terrific
The upcoming BioShock: Infinite has a new trailer. It’s for the VGA Awards. This is it. The trailer looks great and features a fantasy cover of the hymn “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” It is, however, a tad on the short side. BioShock: Infinite will be out in 2012.
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is How the End Begins in Diablo III
The opening cinematic for Diablo III debuted tonight at the Spike VGA awards, featuring the falling of more than one star and the passing of a torch from uncle to niece. If you’ve been fortunate enough to play through the Diablo III beta, then you already know about the falling star. You’ve already met Deckard…
By Mike Fahey Published December 10, 2011 -
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Call of Duty Maker Gets Teabagged As Charlie Sheen Watches
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. The rules of the VGA acceptance speech are: If you go past your allotted time, a cosplaying soldier teabags you on stage. When Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling blew…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedEpic Games Reveals Cartoony New IP Fortnite
They teased it earlier this week and tonight on the VGAs, the makers of Gears of War 3 revealed their newest game. Called Fortnite, it appears to expand on the fortification/tower defense mechanics introduced in Gears of War 3 with an all-new art style that leaves the gritty, steroidal look of previous Epic games behind.…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Can NFL Blitz Have a Cover Curse if the Game Actually Has No Cover?
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…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
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Mario’s Creator Rocks Out to The Black Keys
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. I’m told he did a little head-banging too, but I missed that bit. That’s fine by me, this is how…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Amazing Spider-Man Battles Berzerk Robots, Because Non-Beserk Robots Would Be Boring
After two games that weren’t exactly dripping with hot web-slinging action, developer Beenox takes things open world in the Amazing Spider-Man. How focused are they on swinging this time around? So focused that they haven’t noticed they’ve stolen the plot from a Robocop move. Come on folks, haven’t we learned by now that when you…
By Mike Fahey Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedAlan Wake Meets His Evil Twin in American Nightmare
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.
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedVideo Game Awards Show Host Gets Teabagged. This Ain’t the Oscars.
If you win an Oscar and ramble through your acceptance speech, the orchestra will drown you out and the cameras will cut away. But, if you’re a game developer and you prattle too much at the Spike Video Game Awards, you might have a man drop his crotch on our face. It’s called teabagging. It’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedRainbow Six: Patriots Straps a Bomb to the One Percent in 2013
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. The game’s coming in 2013, says Ubisoft.
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedHoly Shit! It’s a New Mass Effect 3 Trailer
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. I’m not sure what sort of twisted ancient intelligence built a temple for the sole purpose of unleashing an enormous amorous insect on any Reapers that might…
By Mike Fahey Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedBioWare’s Next Game is Command & Conquer: Generals 2
Just announced at the Spike Video Game Awards, BioWare’s next project is a Command & Conquer sequel entitled Command & Conquer: Generals 2 The original Command & Conquer: Generals was released in 2003 for the PC and MacOS. That game depicted the U.S. and China as allies in the near future, fighting against the terrorist…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011