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2010 Spike Video Game Awards Winners List, “Red Dead Redemption” Takes Home Game of the Year Honors
“Red Dead Redemption” was the big winner at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, held on Saturday, Dec. 11. The game also won in the Best Original Score category and Best DLC (downloadable content) category.
Red Dead Redemption beat out Call of Duty: Black Ops, God of War III, Halo: Reach, and Mass Effect 2 for the top award.
Here is a complete list of winners in the 2010 Spike VGAs.
GAME OF THE YEAR
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego)
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
BioWare
BEST XBOX 360 GAME
Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts / BioWare)
BEST PS3 GAME
God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment / SCE Studios Santa Monica)
BEST Wii GAME
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo / Nintendo)
BEST PC GAME
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Blizzard Entertainment / Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST HANDHELD GAME
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Sony Computer Entertainment / Ready At Dawn Studios)
BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision / Treyarch)
BEST ACTION ADVENTURE GAME
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft / Ubisoft Montreal)
BEST RPG
Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts / BioWare)
BEST MULTI-PLAYER
Halo: Reach (Microsoft / Bungie Studios)
BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (Electronic Arts / EA Tiburon)
BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
NBA 2K11 (2K Sports / Visual Concepts)
BEST DRIVING GAME
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Electronic Arts / Criterion Games)
BEST MUSIC GAME
Rock Band 3 (MTV Games / Harmonix)
BEST SOUNDTRACK
DJ Hero 2 (Activision / FreeStyleGames)
BEST SONG IN A GAME
Far Away by Jose Gonzalez (Red Dead Redemption)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego)
BEST GRAPHICS
God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment / SCE Studios Santa Monica)
BEST ADAPTED VIDEO GAME
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Ubisoft / Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Chengdu)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN MALE
Neil Patrick Harris as Peter Parker / Amazing Spider-Man (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions / Activision)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN FEMALE
Tricia Helfer as Sarah Kerrigan (StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty / Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAME
Costume Quest (THQ / Double Fine Productions)
BEST DLC
Red Dead Redemption – Undead Nightmare (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego)
BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Limbo (PlayDead)
MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Portal 2 (Valve / Valve)
Call of Duty Black Ops, favorite to win “Best Multi-Player” category at Spike Video Game Awards
The Spike Video Game Awards 2010 will be held this weekend and the crown of “Best Multi-player” video game in 2010 will be decided. If have a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops, you know all too well that the mult-player mode is highly addicting, even more so than the campaign mode.
With the VGAs right around the corner, I thought I’d weigh in on Military Gamer’s pick for best multi-player game.
This year’s nominees in the Best Multi-player category are Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Halo Reach, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, and Military Gamer’s favorite: Call of Duty Black Ops. At last year’s VGAs, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 won “Best Multi-Player Game” category. Our vote for best multi-player game in 2010, most certainly goes to Call of Duty: Black Ops.
But don’t take our word for it, read what Dean Takahashi a writer for VentureBeat has to say:
While social games on Facebook such as FarmVille command much higher user numbers, they don’t come anywhere close in terms of engagement, a key buzzword in social games that is defined as the amount of time players spend with a game. The comparative numbers show that, while casual social games are extremely popular, they have a long way to go before they can close in on the enthusiasm that users have for hardcore online games.
And the engagement numbers in this story also offer a fascinating look into just how much can be measured when a game is played online for enormous amounts of time by millions of people. The lesson of these numbers isn’t to simply make a game that yields similar metrics. These results can only be achieved when a game rises from being just a product to achieving status as a cultural phenomenon. The game spreads in a viral way because it’s cool, not nerdy, to be playing it. Activision Blizzard could probably charge subscription fees for Call of Duty multiplayer, but it has chosen not to do so, much to the chagrin of analysts such as Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities.
Read more about Call of Duty Black Ops multiplayer blowing away other video games on engagement.
Readers, which game is your choice for “Best Multi-player”? Share it in the comments.
Spike Video Game Awards 2010: Who will win “Best Shooter”?
The Spike Video Game Awards 2010 are less than a week away, at which point the “Best Shooter” video game will be announced.
This year’s nominees in the Best Shooter category are Battlefield Bad Company 2, Bioshock 2, Halo: Reach, and Military Gamer’s favorite: Call of Duty Black Ops.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 took last year’s crown for Best Shooter and also took home the second most honors, winning the “Best Shooter” and “Best Multi-Player Game” categories.
Readers, which game is your choice for “Best Shooter”?
