VIDEO GAMES: Spike TV Announces Full List Of 2011 "Video Game Awards" Winners

VIDEO GAMES: Spike TV Announces Full List Of 2011 "Video Game Awards" Winners

Spike TV has issued a press release featuring the full list of winners from last night's event. Read on to find out whether video games such as Batman: Arkham City and Uncharted 3 walked away with any awards.

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By JoshWilding - Dec 11, 2011 03:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Video Games



Hosted by star of NBC's "Chuck" and avid gamer Zachary Levi, executive produced by Emmy® Award winner Mark Burnett and featuring cutting edge in-show augmented reality and world premiere footage from hotly anticipated releases, Spike TV's ninth annual "Video Game Awards" (#VGA) proved to be a night to remember. Industry giants gathered as the network celebrated the outstanding artistic and technical achievements in the world of gaming over the past year during the two-hour global event which premiered LIVE on Spike TV, MTV 2 and Spike.com Saturday, December 10 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT from Sony Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally, the "VGAs" were seen in over 100 countries and territories around the world.

A host of the most influential members of the gaming industry, as well as stars from the worlds of sports, television, music and movies gathered at the biggest night in video games, and watched Bethesda Studios release "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" receive the highest honor a game can receive when it took home the coveted Vector Monkey after being named Game of the Year. "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" also won Best RPG, and garnered Studio of the Year honors for Bethesda Game Studios.

Other multiple award winners included "Portal 2" which won in five prominent categories, including Best PC Game and Best Multiplayer, and "Batman: Arkham City," which won four Vector Monkeys, including awards for Character of the Year for the Joker, Best Xbox 360 Game and Best Action Adventure Game.
"The Legend of Zelda" creator Shigeru Miyamoto made a surprise appearance to accept the first ever Video Game Hall of Fame Award on the groundbreaking franchise's behalf. "We always push ourselves," said Miyamoto, "and we're grateful you notice."

Additional honors included the second ever Gamer God Award, which was bestowed upon Blizzard Entertainment, the creators of the "World of Warcraft," "Starcraft" and "Diablo" series. Original founders Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce were all on hand to accept the prestigious award.
The "VGAs" debuted never-before-seen world premieres of the most anticipated games of 2012 and beyond, including Naughty Dog's "The Last of Us," the surprise reveals of "Command & Conquer: Generals 2," "Alan Wake American Nightmare," Epic Games' "Fortnite," "Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance," "Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots," "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron," "BioShock Infinite" and the winner for Most Anticipated Game "Mass Effect 3."

This year's show included presenters and appearances by major stars from all over the entertainment world, including Charlie Sheen, Brooklyn Decker, Seth Green, Felicia Day, LL Cool J, Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Tony Hawk, will.i.am, Hulk Hogan, Stacy Keibler, Bellator stars Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler, Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm and game designers Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games and Hideo Kojima of Konami. The show also featured a performance by Grammy Award winning rock duo The Black Keys, and Grammy Award nominated dance music innovator deadmau5, who helped transform the show with his visual representation of sound into a real life video game experience.

Additionally, NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice was on hand to announce the results of the vote for Digital Cover Athlete of the forthcoming "NFL Blitz" from EA Sports, with Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens selected by fans who cast their ballot at vga.spike.com during the show.

A full list of winners is included below:

GAME OF THE YEAR
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Bethesda Game Studios

CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
The Joker – Batman: Arkham City

VIDEO GAME HALL OF FAME AWARD
"The Legend of Zelda"

GAMER GOD AWARD
Blizzard Entertainment

BEST XBOX 360 GAME
Batman: Arkham City

BEST PS3 GAME
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

BEST Wii GAME
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

BEST PC GAME
Portal 2

BEST HANDHELD/MOBILE GAME
Super Mario 3D Land

BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

BEST ACTION ADVENTURE GAME
Batman: Arkham City

BEST RPG
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

BEST MULTI-PLAYER
Portal 2

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Fight Night Champion

BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
NBA 2K12

BEST DRIVING GAME
Forza Motorsport 4

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat

BEST MOTION GAME
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Minecraft

BEST ADAPTED VIDEO GAME
Batman: Arkham City

BEST SONG IN A GAME
"Build that Wall (Zia's Theme)" by Darren Korb – Bastion

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Bastion

BEST GRAPHICS
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN MALE
Stephen Merchant as Wheatley – Portal 2

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN FEMALE
Ellen McLain as GLaDOS – Portal 2

BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAME
Bastion

BEST DLC
Portal 2 Peer Review

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Mass Effect 3

GAMETRAILERS.COM TRAILER OF THE YEAR
Assassin's Creed: Revelations – E3 2011 Trailer

EA SPORTS NFL BLITZ DIGITAL COVER ATHLETE
Ray Rice


For additional information about other "VGA" world exclusives and announcements, fans can log onto VGA.spike.com and get updates via Twitter @SPIKE_TV, as well as the hashtag #VGA.

Nominees for Spike TV's 2011 "VGAs" 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 including Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Game Informer Magazine, Kotaku, Joystiq, GameSpot, IGN and WIRED.

Mark Burnett, Casey Patterson and Carol Donovan served as executive producers of Spike TV's 2011 "VGAs."

The presenting sponsors for the 2011 "VGAs" were the all-new Chevy Sonic, Dr Pepper TEN, KFC Hot Wings and KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese Dinner. Energizer® Ultimate Lithium is the associate sponsor, with AXE and Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol serving as digital sponsors.

Spike TV is available in 99.8 million homes and is a division of Viacom Media Networks. A unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), Viacom Media Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is www.spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV's press site at http://www.spike.com/press. Follow us on Twitter@spiketvpr for the latest in breaking news updates, behind-the-scenes information and photos.


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VirVespertilio
VirVespertilio - 12/11/2011, 3:35 AM

ScottPilgrim
ScottPilgrim - 12/11/2011, 3:50 AM
hmmm I do think Batman or Portal should have gotten game of the year
wyokid
wyokid - 12/11/2011, 3:56 AM
The [frick]! Skyward Sword is leagues above Skyrim!
THRILLHO
THRILLHO - 12/11/2011, 3:59 AM
AC1
AC1 - 12/11/2011, 4:01 AM
Elder Scrolls games are so overrated. Assassin's Creed should've won more. I'm surprised there's no award for 'Best Storyline' or something. Assassin's Creed would certainly have been a major contender in that one.
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/11/2011, 4:05 AM
haven't played elders scrolls skyrim,but it does look like a worthy winner of game of the year.
areyouagod
areyouagod - 12/11/2011, 4:11 AM
I would of give dead island, trailer of the year.
sarahsatire
sarahsatire - 12/11/2011, 4:13 AM
I get the feeling a lot of you haven't actually played Skyrim. Without a doubt it deserved Game of the Year, but that's not to say there weren't other very impressive games as well.
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/11/2011, 4:17 AM
@ mattsc1982

i agree,excellent trailer.
Action
Action - 12/11/2011, 5:32 AM
i'm just glad batman won some awards.
Luigi
Luigi - 12/11/2011, 5:44 AM
Sonic should win almost every year when it comes to music. About a fourth of my iTunes is music from Sonic and I barely ever play the games. It would have been nice to see Mark Hammill when for best actor too, but I haven't Arkham City so I guess I wouldn't know.
Newbus
Newbus - 12/11/2011, 5:47 AM
Skyrim deserved it!
thalidomide
thalidomide - 12/11/2011, 5:53 AM
So bf3 didn't win shit this year huh? I thought it has a good multiplayer mode?
Quasimodo
Quasimodo - 12/11/2011, 6:04 AM
How did mw3 win?! Its the same game every year. BF3 shouldve won
comiccow6
comiccow6 - 12/11/2011, 6:58 AM
And all those who were waiting to get DLC on Batman Arkham City Game of the Year (frick) these guys.
Supes17
Supes17 - 12/11/2011, 7:03 AM
@Josh Wilding: You should post the vid of Joker's acceptance speech for Best Character... He's holding a file that says "Batman: Arkham WORLD" before smiling and saying "oooohh! ..spoilers.........."
Cross
Cross - 12/11/2011, 7:09 AM
Both Arkham City and Skyrim are classics and I'm happy that they got most of the awards. AND GUYS HOW CAN YOU MISS JOKER ON VGA????

Well let me tell you he was holding a script... a script of...

BATMAN: ARKHAM WORLD!!! YES IT'S OFFICIAL.
JDUKE25
JDUKE25 - 12/11/2011, 7:20 AM
skip to 0:55
Supes17
Supes17 - 12/11/2011, 7:21 AM
nvm. thanks @ jduke
JDUKE25
JDUKE25 - 12/11/2011, 7:24 AM
no problem @Supes
iambosh
iambosh - 12/11/2011, 7:55 AM
So does it strike anyone that both Best PS3 and Best Wii games are console excslusive while Best 360 game is a multiplatform? I mean cmon give the exclusives some love, I mean I expect GOW3 to win (even tho batman is the superior game)
MissMystique
MissMystique - 12/11/2011, 8:26 AM
Uncharted 3 is one of the best games Ive ever played:) So happy, it really deserved it!!!
BATMANx
BATMANx - 12/11/2011, 8:33 AM
Me and many say Batman Arkham City should have won Game of the Year.. and Gears of War 3 was a good game but it didnt win anything??
TheStranger
TheStranger - 12/11/2011, 9:04 AM
Really? Skyrim? thats bogus! Batman would have won it but it took an arrow to the knee... -_-
mk
mk - 12/11/2011, 11:26 AM
haha bethseda always win goty with their new games.. but vga is ridiculous anyway bf3 multiplayer is way better than portal 2.. but yah it was either skyrim and skyward sword for me anyway for goty lol
superbatspiderman
superbatspiderman - 12/11/2011, 11:30 AM
I will be getting Skyrim on Christmas but I doubt I will ever get to play it because my brother will hog it all the time. He won't ever shut up about it. lol
odie00
odie00 - 12/11/2011, 12:01 PM
I haven't played Skyrim but it looks good. I couldn't get into Oblivion though when that came out. I still have the game and only have 10 hours on it. I think it was because of the way you leveled up in Oblivion that I didn't like. But I guess they changed the way you level up in Skyrim kind of like Fallout 3 which I loved to death, beat that game a few times. Arkham City on the other hand was simply amazing!! Love that game. I would have gone with that. Best superhero game ever, better sequal. Any Batman fan should have picked that up on the first day. I still need to get Skyward Sword cause I'm a huge Zelda fan as well. Oh and for all of you that think Battlefield 3 should have won over Modern Warfare 3 umm no. I've played both and the Modern Warfare series just keeps getting better. I know a lot of people (for some reason) always just play the multiplayer of these type of games without playing the single player. I love Modern Warfares story ever since the first one. And the third on takes place exactly right after the second game and its just purely awesome. I even got a little sad when Soap died in the game eventually, thats how into the story I was. I just recently played Battlefield 3 and played the single player for that and dear god was it boring and crappy, and the storyline was uninteresting. I had the game also freeze on me like 9 times, brand new game. And I had to install the HD graphics for the single player which took more than a gig and was still kind of crappy compared to Modern Warfare. Everything BF3 DOES MW3 DOES BETTER! They have and always will do better.
adanthebeast
adanthebeast - 12/11/2011, 1:25 PM
@sortis
Batman was so much better than skyrim.
skyrim is a cheap game
R888
R888 - 12/11/2011, 4:17 PM
Skyrim was a great game and batman oh well what can you do there can only be one winner.
BlazinTexan
BlazinTexan - 12/11/2011, 5:13 PM
dude BF3s graphics and mutilplayer are phenomenal but yes Mw3s campaign was superior but i finished it in 4 hours 30 mins....plus mw3 maps [frick]ing blow
TheLoveDoc
TheLoveDoc - 12/11/2011, 5:47 PM
"MW3 shooter of the year"....
Heads will Roll
The world is full of COD addicts, its sad.
I love you BF3!
odie00
odie00 - 12/11/2011, 6:04 PM
I said they were crappy compared to MW3 graphics especially having to install the HD graphics before you play and they still were just alright. I played on the 360 so maybe it was better on the PS3. And I'm not a COD addict, I like different types of games. If BF3 was an awesome game like MW3 was I would have said things differently but in my opinion it wasn't. AND most COD games are really good unlike the different Battlefield games out there. Bad Company was also just an ok game, storyline was alright but the game play sucked. But doesn't matter because Skyrim got game of the year and if that wouldn't, gaurantee either Skyward Sword or maybe even Arkham City would have.
CVTom
CVTom - 12/11/2011, 8:23 PM
Not as big of a gamer as I used to be, but I am glad Arkham City and Mortal Kombat won.
arekusandora
arekusandora - 12/12/2011, 6:31 AM
Skyrim=poop
Portal 2 game of the year
Batman close second
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