Video Game Award Show Announced 117
HorrorIsland writes "According to the Boston Globe,
Video game industry gets TV award show. Of course, it sounds like the on-screen awards will focus on celebrities both real (Dennis Hopper), artifical (Laura Croft, perhaps), and in-between (Jenna Jameson)... so you can quit trying to hold in your gut, programmers!"
A hope (Score:4, Interesting)
Incedently, Lara Croft was the only woman who made it in the top 50 personalities.. listed by the Time Magazine a few yrs back.. (2000 I think).
Like Beavis and Butthead on MTV or... (Score:2, Interesting)
Cool idea, I wonder other than Gamespy.com and GameSpot.com how are people voting on these?
First reality TV now this... (Score:4, Interesting)
You already have some of this with channels dedicated to a specific topic, but do we really want this with a general anything goes network?
This will suck royally to watch. (Score:1, Interesting)
This is an awards show being produced FOR TV. Not for the developers. It's an excuse to get some lame Hollywood stars up on stage to say, "Wow, games are great, I didn't know you could do this kind of thing with computers. [Insert outdated Pac-Man joke here, pause for lau^H^H^Hcoughing.] I'd like to thank EA for letting me do the voice work for Stinkface McAss, because I've been stuck doing dinner theater in Tahoe after getting caught doing lines off so-and-so's wife's tits. Hi Mom!"
Meanwhile, it's a given that pretty much no Japanese or European dev talent will be recognized. But for some reason I envision Microsoft already has a team working on sweeping these so-called awards with gaudy "extreme" non-games fewaturing an all-Scientologist voice cast extravaganza.
"For a thorough Hollywood rimjob, there is no power greater than X."
Dennis and Jenna are in GTA:Vice City (Score:3, Interesting)
And don't forget Gary Busey, playing the gun-toting hard-drinking redneck Phil.
What a great game. :)