LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hosted by the
acclaimed international film, stage and video game star
Samuel L. Jackson, executive
produced by Emmy® Award winner Mark
Burnett and featuring world premiere footage from highly
anticipated releases, Spike TV's tenth annual "Video Game Awards"
(#VGA) proved to be the biggest night in gaming ever.
Industry titans gathered as the network celebrated the outstanding
artistic and technical achievements in the gaming universe over the
past year during the two-hour global event which
premiered LIVE on Spike TV on Friday, December 7 at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM
PT from Sony Picture Studios in Los Angeles. The live
awards show simulcast on MTV 2, MTV Tr3s and streamed live on
Spike.com, GameTrailers.com and for the first time ever, on Xbox
consoles through Xbox Live.
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A host of the most influential members of the gaming industry,
as well as stars from the worlds of television, music and movies
gathered at the biggest night in video games, and watched Telltale
Studios win the two biggest honors of the year – Game of the Year
and Studio of the Year. "The Walking Dead: The Game" also won
Game of the Year, Best Adapted Video Game and Best Downloadable
Game.
Other multiple award winners included "Journey," which won in
three categories, including Best Independent Game, Best PS3 Game,
and "Halo 4" which won two awards, including Best Xbox 360 Game,
and "Borderlands 2" which took home awards for Best Shooter and
Best Multi-Player Game.
Additional awards included "Half-Life 2" which was revealed as
the Entertainment Weekly and Spike VGA Best Game of the
Decade. From "Batman: Arkham City" to "Wii Sports" and "World of Warcraft," fans cast
their ballots for their favorite game from the past ten years on
EW.com/VGA and voted "Half-Life 2" the winner. Additionally,
fans determined the winner of the Character of the Year category by
voting live on vga.spike.com, and awarded Claptrap from
"Borderlands 2" with the honor.
The "VGAs" debuted never-before-seen world premieres of the most
anticipated games of 2013 and beyond including two surprise world
premieres of Moby Dick Studios' "The Phantom Pain," "From
Software's "Dark Souls II," as well as Naughty Dog's "The Last of
Us," Epic Games' "Gears of War: Judgment," Obsidian Entertainment's
"South Park: The Stick of Truth," Konami's "Castlevania: Lords of
Shadow 2," 2K Games' "BioShock Infinite," Square Enix's "Tomb
Raider," Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of
King Washington," and Microsoft
Studios' "Halo 4: Spartan Ops."
"VGA" fans were treated to groundbreaking interactivity that let
viewers "play" the show as it happened live in Los Angeles.
Polls and viewer responses affected how the show progressed such as
which video, music, set environments, props and custom exclusive
videos they wanted to see next.
This year's show included presenters and appearances by major
stars from all over the entertainment world, including host
Samuel L. Jackson, returning hosts
Snoop Lion, Jack Black and
Neil Patrick Harris, as well as
Jessica Alba, Zachary Levi, Johnny
Galecki, Adam Scott and "The
Walking Dead's" Danai Gurira,
Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun and Robert
Kirkman. The show also featured a show-stopping
rendition of "Castle of Glass," by Grammy Award-winning recording
artists Linkin Park. Additionally, Tenacious D ended the show
with a jaw-dropping performance of "Rize Of The Fenix."
The "VGAs" also featured an epic musical Game of the Year
tribute scored by Grammy Award-winning film and video game composer
Lorne Balfe.
A full list of winners is included below:
Game of the Year
The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale
Games)
Studio of the Year
Telltale Games
Best XBOX 360 Game
Halo 4 (Microsoft Studios/343
Industries)
Best PS3 Game
Journey (Sony Computer
Entertainment/thatgamecompany)
Best Wii / Wii-U Game
New Super Mario Bros. U
(Nintendo)
Best PC Game
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2K Games/Firaxis
Games)
Best Handheld / Mobile Game
Sound Shapes (Sony
Computer Entertainment/Queasy Games)
Best Shooter
Borderlands 2 (2K Games/Gearbox
Software)
Best Action Adventure Game
Dishonored (Bethesda
Softworks/Arkane Studios)
Best RPG
Mass Effect 3 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
Best Multi-Player
Game
Borderlands 2 (2K Games/Gearbox Software)
Best Individual Sports Game
SSX (Electronic Arts/EA
Canada)
Best Team Sports Game
NBA 2K13 (2K Sports/Visual
Concepts)
Best Driving Game
Need For Speed Most Wanted
(Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)
Best Fighting Game
Persona 4 Arena (Atlus/ARC System
Works/Atlus)
Best Adapted Video Game
The Walking Dead: The Game
(Telltale Games)
Best Independent Game
Journey (thatgamecompany)
Best Graphics
Halo 4 (Microsoft Studios/343
Industries)
Best Song in a Game
"Cities" by Beck (Sound
Shapes)
Best Original Score
Journey (Sony Computer
Entertainment/thatgamecompany)
Best Performance By a Human Male
Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack (Borderlands
2)
Best Performance By a Human Female
Melissa Hutchison as Clementine (The Walking
Dead: The Game)
Best Downloadable Game
The Walking Dead: The Game
(Telltale Games)
Best Social Game
You Don't Know Jack (Jellyvision
Games)
Best DLC
Dawnguard – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
(Bethesda Softworks/Bethesda Game Studios)
Most Anticipated Game
Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar
Games)
For additional information about other "VGA" world exclusives
and announcements, fans can log onto VGA.spike.com and get updates
via Twitter @SPIKETV as well as the hashtag #VGA.
Nominees for Spike TV's "VGA TEN" were determined by the VGA
Advisory Council, made up of a group of some of the most
well-respected video game journalists from media outlets such as
Entertainment Weekly, Game Informer, Joystiq, Kotaku,
Polygon, IGN, GameTrailers, Gamespot, Wired.com, USA Today and Associated Press.
Mark Burnett, Casey Patterson and Carol Donovan served as executive producers of
Spike TV's 2012 "VGAs."
The on-air sponsors for "VGA TEN" were Chevrolet, Dr Pepper TEN,
GameStop, Toshiba Laptops and KFC, while Dr Pepper TEN, Turtle
Beach, Paramount Pictures' "Jack Reacher," and Relativity Media's
"Movie 43" will serve as the show's digital sponsors.
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