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Awards EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag What? Huh? Oh! Neat: The 2010 IGF Student entries 6 By now, you have hopefully taken some time out of your schedule to tinker with the more interesting 2010 Independent Games Festival Main Competition entries. If not, it's never too late to remedy... The Whispered World gets lucky at German Game Dev Awards 6 I've been fascinated with Deep Silver and Daedalic's The Whispered World has looked from the very beginning, and it seems perhaps the rest of the world is equally as thrilled -- the game has garn... Halo: Reach to be shown off at the Spike VGAs 40 Still fired up from those leaked Halo: Reach images? Then sit down, and prepare to immediately stand up in just a second. Probably. Along with the list of nominees for the Spike Video Game Awards... Spike's Video Game Award nominations are here! 87 The VGAs may be looked at with cynicism and contempt by a great many among the gamer community, but there's no denying that it's about as mainstream an award show as we're going to get. With that... Famitsu Awards released 20 Evidently the Japanese rewards season starts late. While all the American gaming publications practically announce their game of the year awards before the year is over, Famitsu, Japan's foremost... Write Dtoid's 5-word Webby speech, win $1,000 cash! 119 Tuesday was awesome. I was away doing the nerdiest thing possible (at a Final Fantasy concert) when Destructoid was nominated for a Webby in the games-related category. Could you imagine my O-fac... Bethesda and Blizzard know how to sell you stuff 11 With viral marketing, regular marketing, internet marketing and marketing you don't even know about, the advertising world is a complicated place and game companies need to be at the top of their... Dead Space wins Audio of the Year at 7th G.A.N.G. Awards 8 EA's survival horror took home top honors at the 7th annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards Show, taking place at GDC 2009 in San Francisco last week. Aside from the Audio of the Year award, the ... Hideo Kojima to receive lifetime achievement award at GDC 2009 27 You already knew that Hideo Kojima was headed to the 2009 Game Developers Conference this year to deliver a keynote speech. But now it looks like he'll be taking an award back home to Japan with ... Game Debate to the Death! Best Game of 2008?! 163 Last week was a really close Gamecube championship debate that had me guessing until the very end. At first Resident Evil 4 seemed to have it in the bag, but Wind Waker rallied on page two, only ... A blogger's night at the Spike VGAs 49 It was tough for me to come up with a concept for this article.You see, I had the grand fortune of attending the Spike VGAs on Sunday night. It was an amazing opportunity and I had a blast ... bu... Gears of War 2 map pack available for download tonight at midnight 33 The Spike VGAs may not have quite found the g-spot of gamers' desires with this year's show, but there's no denying that many were excited to finally hear some conclusive news about the Gears of ... Destructoid finger bangs Spike! Watch me violate GameTrailers TV! 16 I never know how to write a post when I am asking people to watch a video with me in it. I don’t know; it just makes me sound so … cocky.Let’s just get this over with quickly, ... MTV's lifetime achievement game award goes to Hideo Kojima 42 After this video, this text will be redundant, but my job requires that I type something here. Jade Raymond looks great in this video, especially her hair. Fantastic, even. Last year Nick and I ... 'Best of Show' titles of Leipzig Games Convention announced 11 Games Convention at Leipzig has come and gone, but the impressions of the best games lasts at least a year. Leipziger Messe has recently released their “Best of GC” list and there are... G4's G-Phoria 2008 Awards name Halo 3 as GOTY, I die a little inside 105 Around the time of the Oscars every year, I often hear people say things like, “Who picks the winners, anyway?” When I explain that it’s the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and S... Two Days to Smash Bros Brawl: The Smash Bros. Fanboy awards 43 Hello, and welcome to the first (and probably last) ever Super Smash Bros. Fanboy Awards: The Bessies. We'll be handing out just five awards tonight, not much to go around considering the the mil... GDC 08: Bomberman Live named as best overall arcade game 21 GDC is great for award shows, and its always killer to see games you loved getting the kind of nods that you feel they deserve. It was much that way with the announcement of Microsoft's Xbox Live... And the nominees for the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards are 33 The eight annual Game Developers Choice Awards are set to take place on February 20th with Portal and BioShock both having the most nominations with five nods each, including Game of the Year. Th... Wii and DS earn Nintendo's second Emmy Award 28 Well it wouldn't be a Tuesday unless Nintendo were winning an award, now would it? At yesterday's Technological & Engineering Emmy Awards in Las Vegas, Nintendo was honored by the National Ac... Weekend Reading: And the award goes to... 25 While mucking up Podtoid 37, I really liked the question about the industry maturing. While videogames are definitely more mainstream, with regular articles covering the industry in the New York ... Game Debate to the Death! 2007 Game of the Year? 124 In our last debate, we traveled back to a dark time in our lives when we actually, if ever, watched televised wrestling shows. When asked what your favorite wrestling game of all time was, over a... The winner of Destructoid Game of the Year 2007 150 Picking the Destructoid Game of the Year was no easy task, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly varied community response to yesterday’s list of nominees. It... The nominees for Destructoid Game of the Year 2007 213 It goes without arguing that 2007 was one of the best years of gaming in a very long time. It seemed like every console and handheld had a robust handful of topnotch games, covering... The nominees for ScrewAttack's first annual Shitty Ass Game of the Year Awards 51 Our friends at ScrewAttack are holding their first annual Shitty Ass Game of the Year Awards, or SAGYs for short. All the games on the SAGY list were nominated by gamers and anyone can vote on wh... Ralphie May fails at comedy, trashes Xbox 360 at Spike VGAs (NSFW) 97 Yes, older Xbox 360 game consoles were prone to failure. Apparently, so is Ralphie May's comedy routine.Gametrailers sent us this sad Ralphie May performance from the 2007 Spike Video Game Awards... Mega64's third SpikeTV VGA ad: HALO 3 WINS GAME OF THE YEAR!! 23 Here's the final promo for SpikeTV's VideoGameAwards from Mega64. This one is easily the best ad by far. Todd and Aaron (Rocco and Shawn) love the VGA so much, they give the show their very own s... Destructoid survives Spike Video Game Awards, brings you results and notes 88 Last night, Spike TV filled the Mandalay Bay events center with various videogame industry types, girls excited to see celebrities, and other people instructed to scream on command. The show is s... Mega64 promotes the 2007 VGA: MATH EFFECT CARDS! 17 This is the first of three new videos from Mega64 promoting this years Spike TV's VideoGame Awards. In this first commercial, the Mega64 crew hits the streets and tells the general public to drop... Video Games Live to perform at Spike Video Game Awards 18 Wow. The Spike Video Game Awards are the place to be this year. If the newly announced host Sammy J. wasn't enough to excite you, then maybe the addition of a full-blown videogame orchestral conc... Samuel L. Jackson to host Spike Video Game Awards, may say bad words 24 Samuel L. Jackson has once again been tapped to host this year's Spike "Video Game Awards" show, and we couldn't be more excited. Just the very idea that we might get a chance to hear J... Kutaragi receives AIAS 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award 14 "Father of the PlayStation," Ken Kutaragi, has been honored with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award be presented to Kutaragi on Febr... BioShock wins BAFTA's Best Game of the Year award 17 BioShock is doing it's end of the year award-harvesting as expected, snagging Best Game of the Year at the 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards sponsored by the British Academy of Film ... It's Golden Joystick time: World's biggest gaming ceremony returns 23 The Golden Joystick awards have been running now for twenty five years. Hailed as the biggest and most prestigious ceremony in all of gaming, the show rewards the very best that our beloved indus... Videogame BAFTA awards: Will Wright gets love + full nominations 7 The BAFTAs are the most prestigious awards that the UK has to offer after the British Comedy Awards, and for the first time they will honor videogames. Spore creator Will Wright shall be receivin... Games Media Awards: the images (quantifiably NSFW) 42 Having vague and hazy recollections of this week's Games Media Awards, I found myself quite looking forward to going over the photos and video from the night so that I could piece together everyt... Games Media Awards results: We walk away empty handed, but boy were we drunk 39 The results are in, I've lost my voice from shouting about King Edward potatoes, and Destructoid was FAIL. These are the important facts about the first ever Games Media Awards. Later on, my coll... Games Media Awards: Tonight is the night, and Destructoid will rock the house 37 I reported a few weeks ago that Destructoid has been invited to attend the Games Media Awards, where we are nominated for best non-commercial site/blog. Well, tonight is the night, as over 250 pr... Manchester Cathedral calls Resistance award nomination a 'disgrace' 35 If you thought Manchester Cathedral was pissed off by the use of the likeness of their Cathedral in the PS3 title Resistance: Fall of Man, you should see them now.Resistance: Fall of Man has just... Writers Guild of America to celebrate videogame writing 25 The Writers Guild of America, the organization for all those people who try to write movies (myself included), has announced that they will be presenting a video game writing award at the 2008 Wr... Destructoid nominated at the Games Media Awards 42 Since its humble beginnings, Destructoid has gone from strength to strength, gaining followers without and within the games industry, growing to a ridiculous size and becoming the largest indepen...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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