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Spike TV video game award winners: Debate to death photo

Spike TV had their little video game awards show last night, and I'm sure you're dying to know who won what. You may be shocked by some of the choices. Others, you may just flat out pissed. Most of us, however, are probably pretty indifferent as it doesn't really mean anything 'cause the show is one big ad-fueled orgy of a spectacle (you see, our age demo, the young male, is like crack to an advertiser, so this award show is a good excuse to try to pull in major bank). Anyway, big winners below and more after the jump.

GAME OF THE YEAR
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
    Epic Games (Gears of War) 
CRITIC'S CHOICE
    The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD) 

 

 

The full, unedited list:

    GAME OF THE YEAR
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

    BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
    Tony Hawk Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft)

    BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
    NBA2K7 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)

    BEST SONG
    "Lights and Sounds" by YellowCard in Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic
     Arts/Criterion Games)

    BEST SOUNDTRACK
    Guitar Hero II (Red Octane/Harmonix)

    STUDIO OF THE YEAR
    Epic Games (Gears of War)

    BEST WIRELESS GAME
    SWAT Force (Vivendi/KAOLink)

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - MALE
    Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - FEMALE
    Vida Guerra in Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical
     Entertainment)

    BEST CAST
    Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

    MOST ADDICTIVE
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

    CRITIC'S CHOICE
    The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

    BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD
    Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)

    BEST ACTION GAME
    Dead Rising (Capcom)

    CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR
    Alyx Vance - Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

    BEST FIGHTING GAME
    Mortal Kombat Armageddon (Midway Games)

    BEST PC GAME
    Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

    BEST RPG
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

    BEST SHOOTER
    Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

    BEST MILITARY GAME
    Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

    BEST GRAPHICS
    Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

    BEST HANDHELD GAME
    New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

    BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
    Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

    BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
    WII (Nintendo)

    BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW
    Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (LucasArts/Traveller's Tales)

    BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
    James Gandolfini in The Sopranos: Road to Respect (THQ/7 Studios)

    BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
    Rachel Leigh Cook in Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix)

    GAMERS CHOICE: BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
    Rosario Dawson in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
     (Atari/The Collective)

    GAMERS CHOICE: CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
    "Jack Sparrow" portrayed by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The
     Legend of Jack Sparrow (Bethesda Softworks/7Studios/Buena Vista Games)

 


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Mozgus's Avatar
Mozgus at 12/09/2006 13:34
zzzzzzzzzzz...
ShadowXP's Avatar
ShadowXP at 12/09/2006 13:40
Character of the Year, like so many of these other categories has me baffled.
KyleGamgee's Avatar
KyleGamgee at 12/09/2006 13:43
Wow, Dtois didn't seem to care that this was coming, doesn't seem to care much now that it's come either. I find myself additionally, not caring.
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 12/09/2006 13:45
Alyx Vance, a vixen? I think she's hot, but a vixen she is not. As far as the rest of the list, I guess it's good to know this has all come and gone, but if this post hadn't shown up I would have forgotten completely that SpikeTV does this worthless program every year. Ho hum.
Pedro Blandino's Avatar
Pedro Blandino at 12/09/2006 13:49
spike tv dos int know what their doing.. "idiots"
World Famous's Avatar
World Famous at 12/09/2006 13:54
The fact that we didn't win anything completely invalidates the whole show.
Niero's Avatar
Niero at 12/09/2006 14:09
I'm not surprised, as I don't think there was a single indie person on the judge panel.
Spilt Milk's Avatar
Spilt Milk at 12/09/2006 14:11
Sucks to be a sony fanboy.

Hah!
icarus's Avatar
icarus at 12/09/2006 14:25
BEST PC GAME
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

Riiiiite.
Rosbif's Avatar
Rosbif at 12/09/2006 14:26
I have hated spike tv for a while, so I find myself along with you, Kyle, not caring.
SaintsWoe's Avatar
SaintsWoe at 12/09/2006 14:26
icarus i guess you didnt play CoH. It is one of the best games in a long time
Niero's Avatar
Niero at 12/09/2006 14:35
HAHAHA

GAME OF THE YEAR
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Tony Hawk Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft)

BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
NBA2K7 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)

BEST SONG
"Lights and Sounds" by YellowCard in Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic
Arts/Criterion Games)

BEST SOUNDTRACK
Guitar Hero II (Red Octane/Harmonix)

STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Epic Games (Gears of War)

BEST WIRELESS GAME
SWAT Force (Vivendi/KAOLink)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - MALE
Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - FEMALE
Vida Guerra in Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical
Entertainment)

BEST CAST
Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)

MOST ADDICTIVE
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

CRITIC'S CHOICE
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD
Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)

BEST ACTION GAME
Dead Rising (Capcom)

CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR
Alyx Vance - Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat Armageddon (Midway Games)

BEST PC GAME
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

BEST RPG
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

BEST SHOOTER
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

BEST MILITARY GAME
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)

BEST GRAPHICS
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

BEST HANDHELD GAME
New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)

BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)

BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
WII (Nintendo)

BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (LucasArts/Traveller's Tales)

BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
James Gandolfini in The Sopranos: Road to Respect (THQ/7 Studios)

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Rachel Leigh Cook in Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix)

GAMERS CHOICE: BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Rosario Dawson in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
(Atari/The Collective)

GAMERS CHOICE: CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
"Jack Sparrow" portrayed by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Legend of Jack Sparrow (Bethesda Softworks/7Studios/Buena Vista Games)
Faith's Avatar
Faith at 12/09/2006 14:42
Two of my girlfriends got to go to the awards show. One was dating a winner... guess who? And the other one covered the red carpet event. I'm so jealous right now.
Ishaan's Avatar
Ishaan at 12/09/2006 14:48
WTF, wait. Why is Project 8 on that list? The reviews were terrible!
subnet6's Avatar
subnet6 at 12/09/2006 15:44
Knowing this was Spike, I could have written the winners list before I ever heard it and without knowing what was nominated.

I suppose it's good to recognize gaming except that the association with Spike and the games they choose (for the most part) seems to reinforce that video games are for big dumb guys who want to kill pretend shit on their mega wide screen penis extenders.
ZeroTolo's Avatar
ZeroTolo at 12/09/2006 15:53
Faith says:
12/09/2006 14:42
"Two of my girlfriends got to go to the awards show. One was dating a winner... guess who?"

Patrick Stewart?!
normachariot's Avatar
normachariot at 12/09/2006 16:05
I went last night, the intro was pretty funny as Sam Jackson killed off guitar hero players with his gears of war gun while running into the king from oblivion, other than that it was pretty much advertisement up the hole, the only worth while thing was watching the cast of reno 911 and hearing people boo yellowcard and sarah silverman for making fun of gamers haha
normachariot's Avatar
normachariot at 12/09/2006 16:06
oh and tenacious D killed it with their metal intro , btw i didn't know epic had such a small staff they even announced they were hiring....
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 12/09/2006 16:39
i like how only wesern games were up for awards, with the exception of dead rising

zelda was of course out of pure fanboyism
Robert's Avatar
Robert at 12/09/2006 17:17
Man...a friend of mine at USC got to go. And she doesn't even like Tenacious D, or video games!

Injustice. But...I guess I only own one of the games on that list, anyway..
Ballistic90's Avatar
Ballistic90 at 12/09/2006 20:38
I didn't see the Wii or Legend of Zelda on any of the ballots so I was surprised they were mentioned at all. I just don't like how they set up the whole ballots being before the holiday rush of game releases. The whole thing is a damn spectacle anyways.
BlindsideDork's Avatar
BlindsideDork at 12/09/2006 21:12
Ballistic90...

Wii was under best technology and even though it was before the holiday rush thereby not giving Zelda a chance to be entered for game of the year....Gears of War was entered after mere days of its released.
DJTyrant's Avatar
DJTyrant at 12/09/2006 21:49
For the most part I enjoyed the awards show. I mostly enjoyed yelling at 50 cent "Your game sucks!" when he was presenting an award. Booing Yellowcard the whole time they were doing their speech "Get off the stage asshole!", and Sarah Silverman "You're not funny!" Apparently I got a few people in the 1st Floor to laugh (I was in the front from in the 2nd level) and basically my goal there was to humiliate as many celebrities as I could...and watch the Burning Crusade intro, which was awesome because Blizzard brought in a choir who sang during the trailer. The banter between Samuel and Stweie throughout were good and Samuel ad-libbed a fair amount because we were seated where we could see the teleprompter.

Only thing I'm looking forward to with watching it is seeing if I can hear myself during it (which I'm hoping I can, I yelled fairly loud).

I think Spike TV/MTV is honestly trying harder, especially MTV with their recent acquisitions (GameTrailers, Xfire, Harmonix). They're not there yet and have a ways to go, but if let the community really get involved (especially a site such as this) it would help the credibility of it.
Ballistic90's Avatar
Ballistic90 at 12/09/2006 21:56
BlindsideDork, that IS my problem. For a proper award ceremony to take place, it should be after the end of the year. It's rather farcical to do it this early.
Im OK's Avatar
Im OK at 12/10/2006 01:04
What... Patrick Stewart was in Oblivion for all of five minutes.

I mean, Patrick Stewart is awesome and all, and I guess he did a pretty good job as Uriel Septim VII, but still... five, maybe ten minutes tops.

That would be like Steven Segal getting a best actor bid for Executive Decision or something. (Well, maybe not quite as outrageous as that since, well, Patrick Stewart can actually act and all, but yeah.)
Maxpower's Avatar
Maxpower at 12/10/2006 01:45
Okami should have owned that Game of The Year. Stupid Spike dipshits.
normachariot's Avatar
normachariot at 12/10/2006 02:01
DJTyrant

DUDE YOU WERE A TOTAL ASS, I SAT THREE ROWS BEHIND YOU WERE WEARING THE BLUE XFIRE SHIRT RIGHT?
SHEESH, SERIOUSLY THOUGHT, HUGE A-HOLE THROUGHOUT THE SHOW
DJTyrant's Avatar
DJTyrant at 12/10/2006 03:23
Capslock is cruise control for cool right?

Anyways, since no one takes the show seriously anyways I wanted to have a good time. I have zero regrets for what I did and said that night. Yes I was an ass, only because a lot of the show was a total mockery of videogame culture and I wasn't about to just let it go without me voicing my opinion. At least I got part of the crowd to heckle with twoards the end.

Most of the people I talked to enjoyed my heckling, I'm sorry you didn't though. Hope you didn't have o *gasp* pay for your ticket.
DJTyrant's Avatar
DJTyrant at 12/10/2006 03:25
And I also want to say what I did was totally out of character for me. I dunno what it was, just the whole celebrity presenter thing really lit a fire under me...

I'm sorry if I ruined the show for anyone. Heh, well now I am contradicting myself. But yeah, I had a good time, hopefully I didn't ruin your time there. :/
broham's Avatar
broham at 12/10/2006 06:15
Man, I really like those games that won. And when the hell did project 8 get bad reviews? It has an 83% on gamerankings, it's a great game for the 360. No matter, people always disagree when it comes to things getting awards.
normachariot's Avatar
normachariot at 12/10/2006 16:02
ahah capslock cruise control i like it, yeah i agree celebrity presenters were whack especially 50 cent, its just its called respect dude i really don't think you would like someone booing you on winning an award even though it was fixed or booing your little act it just isn't respectful to the artist, i got my ticket for free pfft i wouldn't pay for that hahah, but i must say the "your not funny" clap clap clap was pretty funny i just saw it as disrespectful and wouldn't think you would appreciate the same response when your live in front of millions of viewers.
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