Spike TV Video Game Award Winners

Gamespot reports on the results from Friday's Spike TV Video Game Awards. Top Game honor went to RE4, while King Kong and World of Warcraft both took home several category nods. From the article: "As much as Spike might have refined the show over its past pair of efforts, it was clear the network had not yet found a way to perfectly merge the subject matter, the celebrities, and the audience. Nowhere was evidence of this more pronounced than in the significant number of audience members heading for the exits right after Missy Elliott's climactic performance, having seen all they came for and not caring to find out who was going to take home the Game of the Year award. Winners for Best Gaming Publication, Best Gaming Website, and Best Gaming Blog were not announced at the show. "

Who are Spike TV?

[CyricZ]

As a Brit, I'm not familiar with Spike TV. I assume they're a TV station.

But who are they? More specifically, what about them gives them any credibility when it comes to judging computer and video games? Does their regular programming even focus on video games?

Re:Awarding not-yet-released games? Boo!

[Suddenly_Dead]

Except, didn't they do it through vote? I distinctly remember a voting componenet of some sort to last year's. I could be wrong though.

Original song?

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Ok, so a lot of people got their chance to pick on a thingy of this (######) award show. And here's another addition.

So, what qualifies as original music? Existing music that was licensed for the game?
Apperently.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Maybe We Crazy" by 50 Cent in 50 Cent: Bulletproof (Vivendi Universal Games) "Lights and Sounds" by Yellowcard in Burnout Revenge (Electronic Arts)
"When I Get Angry" by Spider Loc in Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts)
"Getting Up Anthem: Part I" by Talib Kweli and Rakim in Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (Atari, Inc.)
"Error Operator" by Taking Back Sunday in Fantastic 4 (Activision, Inc.)


Same for BEST SOUNDTRACK, did they really bother to lisent all the really original music of the other game?

Luckily the BEST ORIGINAL SCORE category wasn't all licensed music, but... best soundtrack and best score? Isn't that the same thing? The game music composers are not appreciated enough, these money bagging ... (something with money, riaa, etc) ... artist get most of the attention but do not deserive it.

PS. MTV is pulling the same crap with their game awards.