The Video Game Awards to Premiere on Spike TV December 10, 2011
This weekend, December 10 2011, Spike TV will air the Video Game Awards live honoring the best in this year's games. Each year Spike TV's Video Game Awards pays tribute to the outstanding achievements of games, designers, animation, breakthrough technology, music and performances of the past year in the industry. The awards also provide a glimpse at the future of gaming, including exclusive sneak peeks and world premiere footage of some of the most anticipated games from the upcoming year.
This year Zachary Levi (Chuck, voice actor for "Fallout: New Vegas" and "Halo: Reach") will be hosting the event. Premiering live from Los Angeles, California, the awards will feature some of the most notable names in video games, Hollywood, music, sports and more. The awards will be broadcast on Spike TV, MTV2 and Spike.com Saturday, December 10 at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT.
Via Spike.com: "Zac Levi is an avid gamer who is truly a part of gaming culture and understands the fans," says Casey Patterson, Executive Producer and Executive Vice President, Event Production, Talent & Studio Relations for Viacom Entertainment Group. "He has great ideas about this year's show. Zac is all about honoring the year in gaming and ushering in the future by showcasing massive world premieres at this year's event. We're excited to be working with Zac."
Attendees and viewers will be treated to perfomances by The Black Keys and deadmau5. According to Spike.com among the list of presenters and attendees are Sports Illustrated cover model and star of Battleship Brooklyn Decker, Family Guy star and voice of Joker in the "Mass Effect" series Seth Green, cast members of Workaholics Blake Anderson, Adam Devine and Anders Holm, multiplatinum and Grammy Award-winning recording artist LL Cool J, stars of the upcoming American Reunion Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott, the most prolific quarterback and wide receiver combination in NFL history, Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, and many more to be announced.
Also the Video Game Awards will present its first ever Video Game Hall of Fame Award. The award will go to "The Legend of Zelda" for being one of the most beloved, influential and celebrated games of all time. According to Geoff Keighley, executive in charge, publisher relations at Spike: "It is only natural to start with Zelda, The Legend of Zelda' is a franchise that inspired many of us to see the potential of games when it debuted 25 years ago, and one that has successfully transitioned from one game console generation to the next and continually shown the narrative and artistic potential of the medium."
This year Spike TV will be presenting the Gamer God Award to the three founders of Blizzard Entertainment for their immense contributions to the electronic gaming world. Co-founders Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce will accept the award and treat Blizzard's global community to the full never-before-seen opening cinematic of the company's upcoming release, "Diablo III."
There will also be several other world premiere footage of the upcoming game in the "Alan Wake" series, "Metal Gear Solid: Rising," "Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots," "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron," and "BioShock Infinite."
Leading the way this year with 12 nominations is "Portal 2" by Valve. Rocksteady Studios' second adventure featuring the Dark Knight, "Batman: Arkham City" has nabbed 10 nominations, while the third chapter in the Nathan Drake adventure, "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception" by Naughty Dog and independent game "Bastion" rounded out the top most- nominated games with 9 and 5 nods each.
Nominees for Spike TV's 2011 Video Game Awards were determined by the VGA Advisory Council, made up of a group of some of the most well-respected video game journalists from media outlets including Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Game Informer Magazine, Kotaku, Joystiq, GameSpot, IGN and WIRED. Gamers can log onto spike.com and vote themselves as to what they would like to see win.
For additional information fans can log into spike.com or follow @SPIKE_TV on twitter and don't miss the Video Game Awards when it airs on Spike TV, MTV2 or on spike.com!
The Video Game Awards to Premiere on Spike TV December 10, 2011
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