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."

Comments

The show is a FAKE

[syclonefx]

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.

Re:The show is a FAKE

[GreenHell]

Actually, they were recorded on the 18th.* That's still before King Kong was released though.

* This is also before the release dates of 50 Cent: Bulletproof (21st), Madden NFL 06 (XBox 360 version, 22nd), NBA 2K6 (XBox 360 version, 22nd), Perfect Dark Zero (22nd), and Project Gotham Racing (22nd), and the XBox 360 (22nd) — all of which were also nominated.

(You don't want to see the list of things released before the show was recorded, but after they were nominated; it's more than twice as long. The show is really nothing more than a giant hype-machine for the various game companies.)