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Spike TV Announces 2005 VGA Nominees
nb caffeine writes "Spike TV has announced the nominees for this year's VG awards. Oddly enough, there are several nominations for games that are not even out yet." From the article: "The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vin Diesel, The Rock, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, Carmen Electra, Xzibit and Ozzy Osbourne are also set to appear at the third annual awards event. Casey Patterson, Executive Producer of the awards, commented: 'Video games have taken over the world as the most creative, cutting edge platform for major names in entertainment to showcase their talent and reach a massive audience. Sam Jackson is one of the coolest guys on the planet; we're thrilled to have him hosting this year's show which promises more stars, more rock and more games than ever before.'" Sounds like it's just as much about the games as it was last year. Interestingly, Games.slashdot.org was tapped, along with Joystiq and Kotaku, to be nominated for Best Blog. Guess they don't hold grudges.
Video games have taken over the world as the most creative, cutting edge platform for major names in entertainment to showcase their talent and reach a massive audience.
Translation: "I am a marketroid and we realized recently that we haven't completely taken over video gaming. We'll get right on that". BARF!
Even more seriously, a bad, unintentional parody of the MTV "music" awards funded by video game publishers is hardly a recipie for success. And it definitely isn't one for any amount of respect.
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
Duke Nukem Forever is nominated for a lifetime achievment award.
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