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Spike TV Announces 2006 Video Game Awards Winners
4th Annual Awards Show Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson Premieres on Spike TV
Wednesday, December 13 at 10 PM, ET/PT
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Wins 'Game of the Year' Honors And Is The
Evening's Most Celebrated Game With Five Awards;
Show Features Performances by Tenacious D and AFI; Appearances by 50 Cent,
Eva Mendes, Sarah Silverman, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, Seth Green,
Brandon Routh, James Gandolfini and More; Family Guy Creator, Seth
MacFarlane, Served As Voice of the VGAs
Includes The Exclusive World Premiere Of Blizzard Entertainment(R)'s
Opening Cinematic Movie For World Of Warcraft(R): The Burning Crusade(TM)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 -- Winners were announced tonight
during the 4th annual Spike TV Video Game Awards held at the University of
Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles. Hosted by Samuel L.
Jackson, the year's biggest celebration for gamers premieres on Spike TV
Wednesday, December 13 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT).
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks) took home five
awards, the most of the night, including "Game of the Year" and "Most
Addictive." Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games) racked up four awards
including "Studio of the Year" for Epic Games.
Spike TV's 2006 Video Game Awards featured musical performances by
Tenacious D and AFI and show appearances by 50 Cent, Eva Mendes, Sarah
Silverman, Seth Green, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, Brandon Routh, Rachael
Leigh Cook, Tony Hawk, Michael Irvin, Method Man, Maria Menounos, Tyrese,
Xzibit, James Gandolfini, Kurt Angle, among others. In character as Stewie
Griffin and Tom Tucker from Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane served as the voice
of the VGAs.
The show also featured the World Premiere of Blizzard
Entertainment(R)'s opening cinematic movie for its highly anticipated
upcoming expansion set, World of Warcraft(R): The Burning Crusade(TM). The
three-minute clip debuts exclusively on Spike TV. World of Warcraft is the
world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, with
more than 7.5 million players worldwide.
The show pays tribute to the outstanding achievements of games,
designers, animation, breakthrough technology, music and performances of
the past year in the world of video games. The awards also provide a
glimpse at the future of gaming - including exclusive sneak peeks and world
premiere footage of some of the hottest and most anticipated games of 2007
and beyond.
A full list of winners is included below:
GAME OF THE YEAR
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Tony Hawk Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft)
BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
NBA2K7 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)
BEST SONG
"Lights and Sounds" by YellowCard in Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic
Arts/Criterion Games)
BEST SOUNDTRACK
Guitar Hero II (Red Octane/Harmonix)
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Epic Games (Gears of War)
BEST WIRELESS GAME
SWAT Force (Vivendi/KAOLink)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - MALE
Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN - FEMALE
Vida Guerra in Scarface: The World is Yours (Vivendi/Radical
Entertainment)
BEST CAST
Family Guy (2K Games/High Voltage Software)
MOST ADDICTIVE
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
CRITIC'S CHOICE
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD
Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)
BEST ACTION GAME
Dead Rising (Capcom)
CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR
Alyx Vance - Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (Valve)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat Armageddon (Midway Games)
BEST PC GAME
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)
BEST RPG
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
BEST SHOOTER
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)
BEST MILITARY GAME
Company of Heroes (THQ/Relic)
BEST GRAPHICS
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)
BEST HANDHELD GAME
New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME
Gears of War (Microsoft/Epic Games)
BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
WII (Nintendo)
BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE OR TV SHOW
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (LucasArts/Traveller's Tales)
BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
James Gandolfini in The Sopranos: Road to Respect (THQ/7 Studios)
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Rachel Leigh Cook in Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix)
GAMERS CHOICE: BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Rosario Dawson in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
(Atari/The Collective)
GAMERS CHOICE: CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
"Jack Sparrow" portrayed by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Legend of Jack Sparrow (Bethesda Softworks/7Studios/Buena Vista Games)
The official sponsors of Spike TV's 2006 Video Game Awards are Burger
King(R), Mountain Dew, Pontiac, Stride(TM) Gum, U.S. Air Force and Verizon
Wireless.
Albie Hecht and Casey Patterson serve as Executive Producers of Spike
TV's 2006 Video Game Awards. Alicia Portugal is Producer and Scott Fishman
is the Executive in Charge of Production. Beth McCarthy serves as director.
Spike TV is available in 90 million homes and is a division of MTV
Networks. MTV Networks is a division of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE:
VIA, VIA.B).
SOURCE Spike TV
http://www.spiketv.com
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