Spike VGA’s 2011: The Rundown
The VGA’s last night IMO was a well put together, very entertaining show. Here is the rundown of all the winners and reveals of the show:
- Best Action Adventure/Best Xbox 360 Game/Best Adaptive Video Game – Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady)
- Reveal – The Last of Us Trailer – Developed by Naughty Dog, Exclusive PS3 title
- Character of the year – Joker (Batman: Arkham City). As the Joker accepted the award (yeah you heard right) he held up a Batman: Arkham World Script, could this be Rocksteady’s next Batman game?
- Most Anticipated Game – Mass Effect 3 (EA/Bioware)
- Reveal – Mass Effect 3 Trailer (EA/Bioware)
- Reveal – Command and Conquer: Generals 2 Trailer – Utilizing the Frostbite 2 Engine, coming 2013. (Bioware)
- Reveal Tom Clancy Rainbow 6: Patriots Trailer – Throw you out the window scene — Wow!
- Reveal Alan Wake: American Nightmare Trailer – Made exclusively for Xbox Live.
- Legend of Zelda – First game inducted into the video game Hall of Fame.
- Reveal – The Amazing Spiderman Trailer
- Best PS3 Game/Best Graphics – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Naughty Dog)
- Best Wii Game – Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
- Best Fighting Game – Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive/NetherRealm Studios)
- Best Independent Game – Mindcraft (Mojang)
- Best Handheld/Mobile Game – Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
- Best Original Score/Best Song in a Game- “Build That Wall” By Darren Korb/Best Downloadable Game — Bastion (Warner Bros. /Supergiant Games)
- Best Individual Sports Game – Fight Night Champion (EA Sports/EA Canada)
- Best Team Sports Game – NBA 2K12 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)
- Best Driving Game – Forza Motorsport 4 (Turn 10 Studios)
- Best Motion Game – The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
- Best PC/Best Multi-player/Best DLC/Best Human Male (Stephen Merchant)/Best Human Female (Ellen Mclain) – Portal 2 (Valve)
- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Trailer – Dynobots! OH MY! (Highmoon Studios)
- Best shooter – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision)
- Reveal – Ray Rice, RB of the Baltimore Ravens wins the vote, makes the Cover of NFL Blitz.
- Reveal – Fortnite trailer (Epic Games)
- Gamer God Award – Blizzard Entertainment
- Reveal – Diablo 3 trailer (Blizzard Entertainment)
- Reveal – Bioshock Infinite trailer (2Kgames/Irrational Games)
- Game of the Year/Best RPG/Best Studio – Bethesda for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Reveal – Metal Gear Rising – New gameplay trailer – (Konami/Kojima Productions/Platinum)
Keys to this reveal:
– The game will now be called “Metal Gear Rising: Revengance” — dropping the “Solid”
-No longer being developed by Kojima Productions, it will now be produced by Kojima Productions and developed by Platinum Games
-Was Raiden doing battle with Vamp?
