Reminder: Spike VGAs Are Tonight
For those of you with access to North American cable channel Spike TV, remember that tonight is the night of their annual Video Game Awards. No doubt a few of your favorites are up for awards, but I really wouldn't recommend watching it for them, or the celebrities, or Jack Black's adorable/nauseating buffoonery. That way lies madness. Instead, watch it for the sneak peeks and premieres of next year's big games and game content, as well as a few secret reveals.
Already promised are trailers for GTA4: The Lost and the Damned, Uncharted 2, God of War 3, some sort of content for Gears of War 2, Brutal Legend, Fight Night Round 4, Terminator Salvation (the game version, I assume), Watchmen: The End is Nigh, Mafia II, as well as a few unannounced titles. Of course, if you wait a few hours, all of those will show up on Gametrailers, and shortly after that your favorite blogs, so really it's up to you if you want to watch the show or not. It airs tonight on Spike at 9 pm eastern.
As an aside, can I ask who's idea it was to have Mountain Dew sponsor the Independent Game of the Year category? For the most part, the creators of those games -- Braid, World of Goo, Audiosurf, and Pixeljunk Eden -- went out of their way to avoid overt corporate interference and now whichever game wins the category will essentially be promoting a Pepsi product. All of the titles deserve wider recognition, but I'd like to think that we don't need a soda company to convince people how awesome they are. But maybe I'm just being too sensitive.
Spike 2008 Video Game Awards [Spike]
Dawdle
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 14 December 2008
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I cannot agree more with your last observation. There is something sad and ironic about corporate recognition of an indie game. I know I tend to be too sensitive myself, but it's a tad gross that independent developers are regarded as needing training wheels in order to attend the party with the big kids.
Or don't watch the awards at all! They are an embarrassment to our hobby, and really painful to watch.
"video games aren't a hobby..."
indie-titles shilling soda, a showe where the term awards is best stated in quotation marks, and if it isn't a FPS, it's not worth your time. another year on good ol' Spike TV!
Oh really, Bizcut? Care to suggest a better term?
Back on topic. Yet another year passes where I don't watch the show and don't look up the results. Gaygamer: please don't acknowledge bullcrap like Spike.
Watching spike's VGAs is like watching a bastardized version of G4's game shows...which is like a bastardized version of the olden days of TechTV.
Back on topic:
I may watch the award show, just to see Brutal Legend because I have yet to see any game play vids of it.