gaming Spike' Video Games award 2012 winners

[Muhammad Farrukh]

SPIKE VIDEO GAME AWARDS 2012 WINNERS

Game of the Year

The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale Games)

Studio of the Year

Telltale Games

Best Xbox 360 Game

Halo 4 (Microsoft Studios/343 Industries)

Best PS3 Game

Journey (Sony Computer Entertainment/thatgamecompany)

Best Wii / Wii U Game

New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo)

Best PC Game

XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2K Games/Firaxis Games)

Best Handheld / Mobile Game

Sound Shapes (Sony Computer Entertainment/Queasy Games)

Best Shooter

Borderlands 2 (2K Games/Gearbox Software)

Best Action Adventure Game

Dishonored (Bethesda Softworks/Arkane Studios)

Best RPG

Mass Effect 3 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)

Best Multiplayer Game

Borderlands 2 (2K Games/Gearbox Software)

Best Individual Sports Game

SSX (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)

Best Team Sports Game

NBA 2K13 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)

Best Driving Game

Need For Speed Most Wanted (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)

Best Fighting Game

Persona 4 Arena (Atlus/ARC System Works/Atlus)

Best Adapted Video Game

The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale Games)

Best Independent Game

Journey (thatgamecompany)

Best Graphics

Halo 4 (Microsoft Studios/343 Industries)

Best Song in a Game

"Cities" by Beck (Sound Shapes)

Best Original Score

Journey (Sony Computer Entertainment/thatgamecompany)

Best Performance By a Human Male

Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2)

Best Performance By a Human Female

Melissa Hutchison as Clementine (The Walking Dead: The Game)

Best Downloadable Game

The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale Games)

Best Social Game

You Don't Know Jack (Jellyvision Games)

Best DLC

Dawnguard ? The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks/Bethesda Game Studios)

Most Anticipated Game

Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games)

[Blackhearted]

Wow. A year where CoD wasn't handed best shooter. How'd that manage to happen?

Also, has it really been that bad of a year graphically that Halo actually managed to win the graphics segment?

Oh, and i disagree with the wii/rpg goty too. Since the VGA's are pretty much an american thing, that really should have been Xenoblade Chronicles. It's better than the nsmb series, and far better than ME3 was.

[torrentthief]

Wow. A year where CoD wasn't handed best shooter. How'd that manage to happen?

Also, has it really been that bad of a year graphically that Halo actually managed to win the graphics segment?

Halo had an enormous budget so they can spend tons on artwork and making the best use of polygons, also ms could have paid for this prize, you never know. COD is becoming boring and predictable to a lot of players, they don't get high ratings on amazon anymore.

[Lovell]

I'm really glad Dishonored won something.

[Lingwo]

I hoped no one would mention this awards ceremony. It is a joke. Clearly something was wrong with the judging because The Walking Dead, game of the year? and Telltale developers of the year?

I know this is all opinion but really? would anyone say Walking Dead was game of the year?

[Muhammad Farrukh]

would anyone say Walking Dead was game of the year?

Well, not necessarily the best of the year, but certainly among the best.

[trag3dy]

If they had waited just a week to do these awards probably Far Cry 3 would have filled several of those spots instead of the games they picked.

[LaP]

Wow. A year where CoD wasn't handed best shooter. How'd that manage to happen?

I'm shocked too.

I must be dreaming. Hell has probably frozen or something.

[shakey]

Halo 4 best graphics... I smell somthing fishy.

[qdave]

Wow. A year where CoD wasn't handed best shooter. How'd that manage to happen?

neither Cod nor medal of honor were good games.

But these awards arent about how good games are anyway :D

Glad that Me3 and Dishonored made it to the list.

Also no ac3? :(

[Crisp]

Best RTS of the year? No one makes them anymore.

[spaceelf]

Also no ac3? :(

Possible the delayed PC release put it off the list

but from what I've played of it so far I wouldn't vote for it

[qdave]

Best RTS of the year? No one makes them anymore.

Yes! Very strange considering how popular they were once!

But i guess people dont like spending hours mining minerals and building armies. It's much esier to shoot things with auto aim :D

Still considering all starcraft is comming out soon!

[trag3dy]

The last big rts game I remember being released is Anno 2070. And that was last November I think. I don't recall any big names in that genre being released in 2012.

[Ryoken]

Given the topic of RTS, thought this might be relevant..

Also, Yay on Borderlands 2 wins \o/

[PGHammer]

The last big rts game I remember being released is Anno 2070. And that was last November I think. I don't recall any big names in that genre being released in 2012.

That's because everyone (other than ANNO) is waiting for 2013 (SimCity in particular). Also, ANNO 2070 has the misfortune of trying to escape the LONG shadow that both SimCity and Civilization V have cast over the RTS genre; note that only the latter did anything in 2012, and that was paid DLC.

(I've been alternating between ANNO 2070 and CitiesXL for my RTS fix while waiting to see what SimCity 2013 shapes up to be. Despite ANNO 2070 being cursed with Ubisoft as a publisher, it is actually a decent game; however, what doesn't help, besides Ubisoft as a publisher, are the reality that it is actually a greater system pig than Crysis 2, let alone Civilization V, and the horrific lack of retail findability, let alone purchasability - and especially in the US.)

[Alladaskill17]

Given the topic of RTS, thought this might be relevant..

Also, Yay on Borderlands 2 wins \o/

That is an awesome graph! Thanks for posting it, where did you find it? ..or dare I say you made it (tons of effort)

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Wait, Journey was a 2012 release? I could have sworn it was 2011...oh well, it definitely deserves the awards it received!

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Journey was indeed a 2012 release, but since it was released early in the year, it largely got unnoticed by the time awards started to roll

Also, one of the best of the year (Y)