The SpikeTV 2010 VGAs have ended and the winners have been announced.
Overall the night was a huge one for gamers, with many newly announced videogames making their debut premier with kickass trailers, continuing the tradition for this eigth annual awards show which seems to only get better and more important as the years go by.
Although personally I could still do without all the drug, porn and potty jokes. But what are you gonna do, eh?
The 2010 VGAs featured over ten exclusive world premieres, quite the whopping number. They included:
1. Forza Motorsport 4
2. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. Mass Effect 3
5. Batman: Arkham City
6. Resistance 3
7. SSX: Deadly Descents
8. Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Insane’
9. Thor: God of Thunder
10. Prototype 2 and
11. “Most Anticipated Game” award winner Portal 2.
Also shown was a new trailer for Kratos’ Mortal Kombat 2011 debut and DLC for The Deadliest Warrior: The Game.
Here is the full list of winners:
GAME OF THE YEAR
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego)
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
BioWare
BEST XBOX 360 GAME
Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts / BioWare)
BEST PS3 GAME
God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment / SCE Studios Santa Monica)
BEST Wii GAME
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo / Nintendo)
BEST PC GAME
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Blizzard Entertainment / Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST HANDHELD GAME
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Sony Computer Entertainment / Ready At Dawn Studios)
BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision / Treyarch)
BEST ACTION ADVENTURE GAME
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft / Ubisoft Montreal)
BEST RPG
Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts / BioWare)
BEST MULTI-PLAYER
Halo: Reach (Microsoft / Bungie Studios)
BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (Electronic Arts / EA Tiburon)
BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
NBA 2K11 (2K Sports / Visual Concepts)
BEST DRIVING GAME
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Electronic Arts / Criterion Games)
BEST MUSIC GAME
Rock Band 3 (MTV Games / Harmonix)
BEST SOUNDTRACK
DJ Hero 2 (Activision / FreeStyleGames)
BEST SONG IN A GAME
Far Away by Jose Gonzalez (Red Dead Redemption)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego)
BEST GRAPHICS
God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment / SCE Studios Santa Monica)
BEST ADAPTED VIDEO GAME
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Ubisoft / Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Chengdu)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN MALE
Neil Patrick Harris as Peter Parker / Amazing Spider-Man (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions / Activision)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN FEMALE
Tricia Helfer as Sarah Kerrigan (StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty / Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAME
Costume Quest (THQ / Double Fine Productions)
BEST DLC
Red Dead Redemption – Undead Nightmare (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego)
BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Limbo (PlayDead)
MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Portal 2 (Valve / Valve)
Hosted by acclaimed television, film, stage and video game star Neil Patrick Harris and featuring world premiere footage from thirteen highly anticipated releases, the two-hour event premiered LIVE, BOTH COASTS, on Spike TV Saturday, December 11 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT from The LA Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
“This was a huge night for the gaming universe,” said Casey Patterson, executive producer Spike TV’s Video Game Awards. “We honored the best and previewed the future of games next year with incredible world premieres.”
A host of gaming industry developers and other luminaries from all over the entertainment world witnessed Rockstar Games’ “Red Dead Redemption” net four awards including “Game of the Year,” “Best Song,” “Best Original Score,” and “Best DLC.”
Other multiple winners included “Mass Effect 2” which took home three prominent awards, including “Studio of the Year” for the game’s developer BioWare, “Best Xbox 360 Game” and “Best RPG,” and “God of War III” which won “Best PS3 Game” and “Best Graphics.”
The show featured use of ground breaking augmented reality technology, conceived by Done and Dusted; with Lee Lodge, in partnership with Weider Design, Full Mental Jacket, and Orad.
Among the star-studded list of presenters, attendees and nominees at Spike TV’s VGAs 2010 were AnnaLynne McCord, “Thor: God of Thunder” video game star Chris Hemsworth, Dane Cook, Olivia Munn, Dominic Monaghan, Michael Chiklis, Academy Award nominated film director Guillermo Del Toro, “Halo: Reach” star and VGA 2010 nominee Nathan Fillion, Nick Swardson, Tony Hawk and the cast from the hit series “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney.
The night also featured a performance by Grammy Award-winning rock band and “Gran Turismo 5” soundtrack contributors My Chemical Romance, who performed “Planetary (GO!)” from their new album, “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.”
The “VGAs” pays tribute to the outstanding achievements of games, designers, animation, breakthrough technology, music and performances of the past year in the world of video games. The awards also provide a glimpse of the future of gaming – including exclusive sneak peeks and world premiere footage of some of the hottest and most anticipated games of 2011 and beyond.