Live Winners and News from The Spike 2008 Video Game Awards Show
Tonight’s Spike 2008 Video Game Awards show isn’t scheduled to air for another four hours, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait to find out all the exclusives and winners that will be revealed later tonight.
Here are some early HOT SCOOPS just for you. Confirmed items will be labeled as such when the show airs later tonight.
Please note: This post is constantly being updated throughout the night live with the latest info starting at 5 PM on EST Sunday, December 14, and finishing around midnight, so keep checking back or refreshing
Special Announcements (All now confirmed)
- Exclusive: Gears of War 2 ‘Combustible’ Map Pack available on Xbox Live Marketplace 12 PM Pacific/3 AM East TONIGHT (Update: Confirmed)
- Exclusive: Fight Night Round 4 arrives in stores summer 2009 (Update: Confirmed)
- Exclusive: EA debuts Dante’s Inferno title, coming in 2009 (See Variety) (Update: Confirmed)
- Exclusive: Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ available as downloadable Rock Band album in March (Update: Confirmed)
- Terminator Salvation game announced
- Brutal Legend will be the greatest game of all time ever and is confirmed to arrive in 2009
Award Winners (All now confirmed)
- Best Shooter: Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)
- Best Xbox 360 Game: Gears of War 2 (Epic Games)
- Best Indie Game Voted by the Fans: World of Goo (2D Boy)
- Big Name in a Game: Kiefer Sutherland (Call of Duty: World at War)
- Gamer God Inductee: Will Wright (Sim City, Spore)
- Best RPG: Fallout 3 (Bethesda)
- Best Music Game: Rock Band 2 (Harmonix)
- Best Soundtrack in a Game: Rock Band 2 (Harmonix)
- Studio of the Year: Media Molecule (Little Big Planet)
- Studio of the Year: Little Big Planet (Media Molecule)
- Best Driving: Burnout Paradise (Criterion)
- Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show: Lego Indy (Traveller’s Tales)
- Best Fighting: Soul Calibur 4 (Project Soul)
- Best Multiplayer: Left 4 Dead (Valve)
- Best PC: Left 4 Dead (Valve)
- Best Portable: Professor Layton (Level 5)
- Best Wii: Boom Blox (EA Casual)
- Best Individual Sports: Shaun White Snowboarding (Ubi Montreal)
- Best Female in a Game: Jenny McCarthy as Tanya in Red Alert 3 (EA Redwood)
- Best Performance by a Human Male: Michael Hollick as Niko Bellic (Grand Theft Auto IV)
- Best Performance by a Human Female: Debbie Mae West as Meryl Silverburgh (Metal Gear Solid 4)
- Best Graphics: Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
- Best Original Score: Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
- Best Action-Adventure Game: Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games)
- Best Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games)
Appearances
- Marisa Miller presenting…something…(I mean honestly, it’s Marisa Miller, who cares?)
- LL Cool J presenting ‘Best Shooter’
- Peter Moore presenting Fight Night Round 4 along with Mike Tyson (who shouldn’t be allowed to present anything)
- Neil Patrick Harris presenting ‘Best Indie Game’
- Eliza Dushku presenting Kiefer Sutherland as ‘Big Name in Game’ winner
- Kim Kardashian presenting first footage of EA’s Dante’s Inferno
- Tony Hawk presenting Game God Inductee Award to Will Wright
- Geoff Keighley presents Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned DLC trailer
- Jerry Stiller makes a cameo for some strange reason
Miscellaneous/Live Blog
- Plaxico Burress named ‘Best Shooter’
- Jack Black is all zany with his Xbox 360 headset! How zany!
- Talking Spore creatures are somewhat fond of Will Wright
- Dante’s Inferno is “based on a book or something.” This perturbs Kim Kardashian a great deal
- I bet the rapturous recorded fan applause played during the rehearsal sounds suspiciously like the live applause tonight
- God of War 3 footage is brief, impressive
- Someone forgot to tell NPH the winner. Oops.
- People actually like The All American Rejects?
- Lost and Damned footage makes me excited to return to Liberty City
- Cleverest line of the night award goes Will Wright [on the award trophy itself]: “I can only assume Tim Schafer designed this”
- Todd Howard giving a shout-out to his mom made me “awwwww”
- Jesus, 2K knows how to cut a trailer
- Stacey Kiebler and Odette Yustman should have their own TV show together
- Because if there’s one person I associate with classical Italian literature, it’s Kim Kardashian
- Media Molecule is too classy for this crowd
- Wow, nothing like rattling off 30 different award winners in 60 seconds
- Tim Schafer’s segment made this worth watching. Epic.
- Ohi Megan Fox. That was me who called out “I love you.” From my house.
- Grand Theft Auto IV taking Game of the Year is hardly a surprise and not unjustified
- I love Weezer, but why did they have to pick this song?
- That’s a wrap. Now to sort through this mess