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Live blog: Spike Video Game Awards 2009 photo

Are you folks ready for the big reveals of the Spike Video Game Awards?!?

Geoff Keighley has been making some big promises, telling us that the show will feature over 12 world premiere exclusives, including some never-before-revealed games. Oh, and there's those awards, too. Will your favorite game win? Will Megan Fox win an award for her riveting performance in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen?!!?!

We can't wait to find out, and we'll be live-blogging every second of it. Can't watch it at home? Follow along. Sitting at home in your underwear on this Saturday evening? Watch it with it! Hit the jump for our live-blog. We'll also be updating separate stories with any hot, breaking news, so if you're not interested in following along, keep your eye on the site.  

Show starts at 8:00 PM Eastern/7:00 PM Central/5:00 PM Pacific.

 

Nominees below. Winners are in bold, and will be updated as they're announced.

Game of the Year

  • Assassin's Creed 2
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Studio of the Year

  • Infinity Ward
  • Naughty Dog
  • Rocksteady Studios
  • Valve

Best Independent Game Fueled by Dew

  • 'Splosion Man
  • Flower
  • Osmos
  • Trials HD

Best Xbox 360 Game

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Halo 3: ODST
  • Forza Motorsport 3
  • Left 4 Dead 2

Best PS3 Game

  • inFAMOUS
  • Killzone 2
  • Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Wii Game

  • Madworld
  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  • Punch-Out!!
  • Wii Sports Resort

Best PC Game

  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Plants vs. Zombies
  • The Sims 3

Best Handheld Game

  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
  • Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
  • Scribblenauts

Best Shooter

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Halo 3: ODST
  • Killzone 2
  • Left 4 Dead 2

Best Fighting Game

  • Blazblue: Calamity Trigger
  • Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny
  • Street Fighter IV
  • Tekken 6

Best Action Adventure Game

  • Assassin's Creed 2
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Brutal Legend
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best RPG

  • Borderlands
  • Demon's Souls
  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Best Multi-player Game

  • Borderlands
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Halo 3: ODST
  • Left 4 Dead 2

Best Individual Sports Game

  • Fight Night Round 4
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
  • UFC 2009 Undisputed
  • Wii Sports Resort 

Best Driving Game

  • Dirt 2
  • Forza Motorsport 3
  • Gran Turismo (PSP)
  • Need for Speed Shift

Best Music Game

  • DJ Hero
  • Guitar Hero 5
  • LEGO Rock Band
  • The Beatles: Rock Band

Best Soundtrack

  • Brutal Legend
  • DJ Hero
  • Guitar Hero 5
  • The Beatles: Rock Band

Best Original Score

  • Assassin's Creed 2
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Halo 3: ODST
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Graphics

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Killzone 2
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Game Based on a Movie/TV Show

  • Ghostbusters: The Video Game
  • South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
  • The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition

Best Performance by a Human Female

  • Eliza Dushku as Rubi Malone
  • Kristen Bell as Lucy Stillman
  • Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes
  • Tricia Helfer as Dare

Best Performance by a Human Male

  • Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman
  • Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
  • Samuel L Jackson as Afro Samurai/Ninja Ninja
  • Shia LeBeouf as Sam Witwicky
  • Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick

Best Cast

  • Brutal Legend
  • Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
  • Ghostbusters: The Video Game
  • South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
  • Wolverine

Best Voice

  • Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn
  • Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer
  • Jack Black as Eddie Riggs
  • Mark Hamill as The Joker
  • Nolan North as Nathan Drake

Best Downloadable Game

  • Battlefield 1943
  • Fat Princess
  • Plants vs. Zombies
  • Shadow Complex

Best DLC

  • Fallout 3 - Broken Steel
  • Fallout 3 - Point Lookout
  • Grand Theft AUto IV: The Lost and the Damned
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Most Anticipated Game

  • BioShock 2
  • God of War III
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Starcraft II

 

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D-503's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:46
D-503
Oh boy! I'm so excited!!! Hey look, it's the guy from Bonus Round...oh how I hate him... So much FUN!!!
Kevin David Burke's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:50
Kevin David Burke
Here comes the suck...
DeathStrikesBack's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:51
DeathStrikesBack
Well, this'll be specfuckingtacular.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:52
Jon B
Two minutes in, and I can see this is going to be awesome already. TIGHTY WHITEYS
Zepwich's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:55
Zepwich
Yay!!
Banana Kid's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:55
Banana Kid
No Jack Black this year means I'm not tuning in.

Let me know if anything interesting happens.
lvl54spacemonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 18:58
lvl54spacemonkey
bah. I can't get the Spike website to show anything on their live feed. Are there any other sites doing live feeds?
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:08
Daxelman
Ahaha, Jack Black.

Never Ceases to amaze...
Xhumation's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:09
Xhumation
Dragon Stripper?

Something tell me the live blog will be more fun than the actual show.
madman0017's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:13
madman0017
I don't mind Tron. It means more Daft Punk!
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:16
RIMoonlight
Best action-adventure Assassin's Creed 2? I didn't hate the game, though it wins over Uncharted? Seriously?
Haizeus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:20
Haizeus
LOL DUDE WHY ISN'T MANSWERS ON BRO
GamesAreArt's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:28
GamesAreArt
FUCK SPIKE. Seriously, I would rather want 1 stream that shows everything I want, then 5 that show nothing. FUCK YOU SPIKE.
TheDaftPunk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:29
TheDaftPunk
Force Unleashed II? Lame.
How did the first one sell enough copies? That game was the biggest letdown in the history of overhyped Star Wars games.
Lichtonatus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:31
Lichtonatus
So far, the burgerking ad has been the most entertaining part of the show..
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:31
RIMoonlight
I'd of infinitely preferred an official Battlefront III announcement.
dip's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:32
dip
@GamesAreArt: No shit. Fuck these "have your way" burgerking bullshit cams. They all suck. The stage one only shows video and audio half the time, the "handheld" has been awkwardly stuck on Mark Hammill for some retarded reason, the backstage one shows... well, whatever lame shit is going down backstage, and the "audience" one shows more goddamn backstage stuff.

Goddamn Spike. I hate to say the word but this is massive FAIL.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:32
Tubatic
I gotta say, this isn't that bad this year.

Also, Force Unleashed II? Sounds good to me!
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:36
RIMoonlight
Blue Mountain State...
ON SPIKE
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:38
Daxelman
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS WITH LIGHTSABERS?!?!?

WANT.
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:40
RIMoonlight
Also, I loved PoP4's art style. Why the change again? Seriously.
And the Prince looks fugly as hell.
madman0017's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:45
madman0017
Looks like Warrior Within Prince...
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:46
RIMoonlight
The fact Nolan North didn't win is bullshit.
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:46
Ganjookie
Best RPG category?
madman0017's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:46
madman0017
Hugh is and Awful wolverine though... he doesn't have a canadian accent...
TheDaftPunk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:47
TheDaftPunk
Do they really need to make a tie-in game for the Prince of Persia movie? Really? Wow.
Kimochi Sama's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:47
Kimochi Sama
sucks, few japanese games nominated
Corak's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:50
Corak
Very surprised Flower won, but I agree as well. It was between that and Splosion man.
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:51
RIMoonlight
Snoop Dogg is here. I was so very tempted to change the channel. But I will persevere.
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:53
Daxelman
Diamond encrusted microphones?

BALLIN.
TechnicolorDewDrop's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 19:56
TechnicolorDewDrop
Only thing that REALLY deserved to win in it's category was Flower. 'Twas very surprising indeed.
BCBen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:01
BCBen
I just don’t see Assassin’s Creed 2 beating Uncharted 2. Uncharted 2 was one of the best games I have ever played. It was epic, stunning, as I was playing, I wished more game developers paid this much attention to detail. AC2 was a really great game. It was fun, there were tons of things to do, and it was huge leaps and bounds from its predecessor but it was full of bugs, glitches, graphic popins, and took forever to load. Even the story in AC2 was not as fluid in execution as Uncharted 2. I’m not trying to bash AC2. I think that it’s a great game and has really fun gameplay but it doesn’t establish the profound benchmark that Uncharted 2 developed.
GamesAreArt's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:05
GamesAreArt
*Cough*http://www.justin.tv/blindxlink*Cough*

Because spike fucking sucks.
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:05
RIMoonlight
The Line looks incredibly cool. Though I still have no clue what's it about. Mind filling me in?
madman0017's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:05
madman0017
UFC Was actually a good game... not better than Wii Sports Resort. Also he said niche wrong.
Corak's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:07
Corak
The cast of Jersey Shore??? I'm really tempted to change the fucking channel now.
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:14
RIMoonlight
DA:O wins! Awesome!
To be honest, it was a huge battle of my faiths between DA:O and Demon's Souls. I couldn't settle, but if anything other than those two one, I would of been calling bullshit. DA:O was my jam, in any case, so I'm happy.

And Green Day: Rock Band? Seriously?
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:19
Tubatic
OK, best female human was a bullshit category in the first place. The absence of Morrigan's VA and anyone from Uncharted 2 is wack.

The best thing about this year has been seeing the developers actually receive the awards. It really redeems.

Also, not having a host is very streamlining, which is great.
GamesAreArt's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:22
GamesAreArt
They shut down the other stream, so heres another. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/digitalfuji-gaming

Also, Spike fucking sucks.
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:27
RIMoonlight
BlazBlue doesn't win. VGA's automatically lose all validity.
GamesAreArt's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:29
GamesAreArt
Forget about video streams, because spike fucking sucks.
Strandli's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:39
Strandli
WHAT THE HELL?!
DJ Hero wins best soundtrack over Brutal Legend? WHAT THE HELL?!
dip's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:42
dip
http://www.livestream.com/VidyaGamez/old

One of the last streams still around.

But yeah, fuck Spike... up the ass with a lawnmower blade.
shaoranwright's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:51
shaoranwright
Uncharted 2 win goty!!!!!
madman0017's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:53
madman0017
PS3: It Only Does GOTY!
dip's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:53
dip
Best PS3 game, best graphics and GOTY... there is some justice in the world.
D-503's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:55
D-503
The show itself wasn't as bad as previous installments... they really have to get away from the poop and dick jokes though.
Camiwaits's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 20:55
Camiwaits
Yes! Uncharted 2 won! I love that game. Congratulations Naughty Dog!
RIMoonlight's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 21:00
RIMoonlight
HOLY SHIT, when the Bravery came on, I swear my ears started bleeding. It sounded like incomprehensible, rhythmless warbling.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2009 21:01
Jon B
A worthy game got GOTY. I am happy about this.
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