2005 SpikeTV VGAs Air

Saturday night Spike aired the 2005 SpikeTV Video Game Awards show, showing us via imagery what we already knew from press releases about a month ago. If you want some snarky blow-by-blow netjak has some liveblogging for you to enjoy. It's still sitting on my Tivo, but from all accounts it was marginally better than last year, but still not very good. Both Kotaku and Joystiq have comments on the 'Best Game Blog' category. From the netjak commentary: "It's apparently been too many awards at once - I mean, one before the first ten minutes? We obviously need a 50 Cent song right now. Personally, I like how they find the least ghetto people in the audience to show them barely nodding to the beat. Come on, in the pan-outs, I can see people actually getting into the music. Maybe the cameraman might want to focus on them? It's nice to know, though, that Spike doesn't just get incompetent people in supervisory positions, but in every place of their network."

Hmm

[DrSkwid]

I'd prefer links to things that are good but hey, that's me.

Almost as useful as "this tastes terrible, taste it, go on."

Spike may be incompentent, but...

[amliebsch]

It's nice to know, though, that Spike doesn't just get incompetent people in supervisory positions, but in every place of their network."

So long as they keep broadcasting three episodes of ST:TNG every day, I'll not complain.

Re:Spike may be incompentent, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only that, but they repeat 'em the later the SAME day and ...
hang on, me mom's calling, better go upstairs and see what she wants.

The show is a FAKE

[syclonefx]

This show is so fake. How did King Kong win so many awards? The show was taped on November 10th and King Kong was released on November 22nd. Aeon Flux even won an award. It was only out for 2 days before the taped the show.

Modded

[fwitness]

-5 Painfully Obvious

Re:The show is a FAKE

[GreenHell]

Actually, they were recorded on the 18th.* That's still before King Kong was released though.

* This is also before the release dates of 50 Cent: Bulletproof (21st), Madden NFL 06 (XBox 360 version, 22nd), NBA 2K6 (XBox 360 version, 22nd), Perfect Dark Zero (22nd), and Project Gotham Racing (22nd), and the XBox 360 (22nd) — all of which were also nominated.

(You don't want to see the list of things released before the show was recorded, but after they were nominated; it's more than twice as long. The

Re:The show is a FAKE

[1337W422102]

It's pretty easy to see that the show is just an ad for the games, kinda like that "The Wizard" movie, or whatever it was called, that one for Mario 3. I'm sure the hardcore gamers realized that the award show is aimed at n00bs. I mean, just take a look at all the celebrities there. I'm sticking to my PCG 50 Best Games Ever list. As usual.

Re:The show is a FAKE

[British]

I can only assume for King Kong and Aeon Flux the awards were merly cleverly disguised advertisements.

I mean, how many freakin' awards has the PS3 won already, based on hype & specs?

Oh yeah? I bet the PS4 will beat that out!

Because Viacom owns both Aeon Flux and SpikeTV

[elrous0]

Aeon Flux even won an award. It was only out for 2 days before the taped the show.

That one is a no-brainer.

-Eric

Liveblogging

[yotto]

Please never use that word again.

Thank you,

--The entire internet

Best game blog?

[El_Muerte_TDS]

How is slashdot even a blog, let alone a game blog.
And why is this even a category?!
What about "best independed game cummunity site"?

Re:Best game blog?

[WWWWolf]

In case you didn't notice, Slashdot is almost an archetypical weblog, evolved from CmdrTaco postings of "Linux possibly seen somewhere" with a few people commenting, to "Here's a link to this cool nerd site, AGAIN", with hundreds of comments. It's about a few people providing links and letting people comment on them or anything that fits the topic.

And games.slashdot.org is definitely one of the finest game blogs I've seen, right along with Kotaku, so cheers to them for winning. Um, well, kind of a dubious

I feel sorry

[knight37]

for the actors / musicians (except for 50c) who associated themselves with this show. Talk about career limiting decisions.