This year’s Video Game Awards were full of shocking winners and announcements. For those who missed the show and need to catch up, here are the winners of all the awards and the new trailers released yesterday.
- Game of the Year: The Walking Dead: The Game
- Studio of the Year: Telltale Games
- Best Xbox 360 Game: Halo 4
- Best PlayStation 3 Game: Journey
- Best Wii/Wii U Game: New Super Mario Bros. U
- Best PC Game: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Best Shooter: Borderlands 2
- Best Action/Adventure Game: Dishonored
- Best RPG: Mass Effect 3
- Best Multiplayer Game: Borderlands 2
- Best Individual Sports Game: SSX
- Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K13
- Best Driving Game: Need for Speed Most Wanted
- Best Song in a Game: “Cities” by Beck (Sound Shapes)
- Best Original Score: Journey
- Best Graphics: Halo 4
- Best Independent Game: Journey
- Best Fighting Game: Persona 4 Arena
- Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Sound Shapes
- Best Performance by a Human Female: Melissa Hutchinson as Clementine (The Walking Dead: The Game)
- Best Performance by a Human Male: Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2)
- Best Adapted Video Game: The Walking Dead: The Game
- Best DLC: Dawnguard (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
- Best Downloadable Game: The Walking Dead: The Game
- Best Social Game: You Don’t Know Jack
- Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto V
- Character of the Year: Clap Trap (Borderlands 2)
- Game of the Decade: Half Life 2 (Valve)
Tell Tale Games have had one hell of a year with multiple awards across the board including the coveted Game of the Year. 2012 was unprecedented because The Walking Dead is a PlayStation Network title; this shows that AAA games are not the only ones applicable for the award. Journey, another indie game which was a Game of The Year nominee as well, also received Best Independent Game and Best Original Score. What is most surprising however is that Assassin’s Creed III did not win any awards at all and was completely flushed out so perhaps Ubisoft may be going back to the drawing board for the future of Assassin’s Creed.
The trailers from the Spike Video Game Awards also shocked many people with the fascinating reveal from Konami called The Phantom Pain, which many are hinting towards Metal Gear Solid 5. Another new reveal from the VGA’s of 2012 is Dark Souls II but no gameplay was shown during the trailer (it was only CG). The trailer which will be thrilling to many fans of PlayStation however, is The Last of Us, which shows new locations, characters and gameplay of Naughty Dog’s upcoming game.These and many more new trailers are shown on GameTrailers.com including BioShock Infinite (which I’m having a media blackout of right now), Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 and South Park: The Stick of Truth (plus more) so check them out! Come back here to check out our analysis on every trailer shown at the Spike Video Game Awards of 2012 during Level 18 of the PlayStation Euphoria Cast!
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