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2005 SpikeTV VGAs Air
Saturday night Spike aired the 2005 SpikeTV Video Game Awards show, showing us via imagery what we already knew from press releases about a month ago. If you want some snarky blow-by-blow netjak has some liveblogging for you to enjoy. It's still sitting on my Tivo, but from all accounts it was marginally better than last year, but still not very good. Both Kotaku and Joystiq have comments on the 'Best Game Blog' category. From the netjak commentary: "It's apparently been too many awards at once - I mean, one before the first ten minutes? We obviously need a 50 Cent song right now. Personally, I like how they find the least ghetto people in the audience to show them barely nodding to the beat. Come on, in the pan-outs, I can see people actually getting into the music. Maybe the cameraman might want to focus on them? It's nice to know, though, that Spike doesn't just get incompetent people in supervisory positions, but in every place of their network."
I'd prefer links to things that are good but hey, that's me.
Almost as useful as "this tastes terrible, taste it, go on."
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So long as they keep broadcasting three episodes of ST:TNG every day, I'll not complain.
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This show is so fake. How did King Kong win so many awards? The show was taped on November 10th and King Kong was released on November 22nd. Aeon Flux even won an award. It was only out for 2 days before the taped the show.
Please never use that word again.
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How is slashdot even a blog, let alone a game blog.
And why is this even a category?!
What about "best independed game cummunity site"?
I looked at the awards site before the show was taped. (I wanted to see which games had been nominated prior to release, and which ones weren't going to be released until after the taping was done.)
Anyways, what I noted? The massive fellating of Sony that was going on. Seriously: if a game was coming out/came out for more than one console, it was always the Sony console version that got nominated. (e.g.: Res. Evil 4 - multiple nominations, but if you believed the information they had up, then it had only ever come out for the PS2. I can understand nominating only one platform in, say, the graphics category (and I've had people tell me that the GameCube version actually looks nicer. I've never seen both together, so I can't say anything.), but for "best action game"? It's the same damn game, platform isn't that huge of a difference.)
Anyways, to get to the point here: King Kong was nominated often, and every single time it was nominated, clicking on more information about the nomination would tell you that the game has a release date of 2006 for the PlayStation 3. That's right, not only were they nominating a game that wasn't released yet, they were nominating it for a platform that won't be released until next year.
That one is a no-brainer.
-Eric
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for the actors / musicians (except for 50c) who associated themselves with this show. Talk about career limiting decisions.
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