We take a look at this year’s Spike Video Game Awards as our writers give their opinion on the show.
This year was the tenth anniversary of the annual Spike TV Video Game Awards (VGA’s), and by many accounts it continued the show’s slow but steady incline of iterative yearly improvements. Noteworthy positives included orchestral performances of a selection of the year’s best videogame scores, the wise decision to reflect the stature that smaller and independent games now hold within the industry by recognising The Walking Dead and Journey in more than just the Best Downloadable Game category, and a reduction in (sadly not abolishment of) the number of crass jokes about the ridiculousness of gaming.
[Matt Sawrey, Thunderbolt]
How do you sum up 2012? Justin, Josh, and Cole have no idea. So the best place to start is to figure out how to make sense of the games of the year. The cast brainstorms categories for The 2012 Grimmys. Will Best Digital Butt get its chance?
Rantgaming: "The tenth anniversary of the Spike Video Game Awards show can be summed up in two words: “music” and “premiers”. Suffice it to say, the Video Game Awards show was not bad this year, but rather bare-boned. I anticipated that this year was going to bomb big time. I figured it was going to fail in some stupid, convoluted way. However, to my surprise, the show wasn’t all that bad. Although I stretch the use of the word “bad”. It just lacked a lot of what was supposed to be the premise of the entire show: awards and recognition."
