The 2010 Spike Video Game Awards have just ended with some great announcements and trailers. Â 2010 has been an amazing year for games and the nominees (along with the winners) are below:
Game of the Year
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Mass Effect 2
- Red Dead Redemption – WINNER
Studio of the Year
- Bioware – WINNER
- Blizzard
- Bungie
- Rockstar San Diego
Character of the Year
- Ezio Auditore de Firenze
- Kratos
- John Marston
- Sgt. Frank Woods – Black Ops – WINNER
World Premiere Trailers
- Batman Arkham City – Fall 2011
- Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – November 11, 2011
- Thor: God of Thunder – May 3, 2011
- Mass Effect 3 – Holiday 2011
- Resistance 3 – September 6, 2011
- Prototype 2 – 2012
- Insane – (THQ, Guillermo del Toro) – 2013
- Portal 2 – April 2011
- Forza Motorsport 4 – Fall 2011
- SSX: Deadly Descents (No release time frame given)
- Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – November 1, 2011
Mortal Kombat – Kratos on PS3 version
Best Action Adventure Game
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood – WINNER
- God of War III
- Red Dead Redemption
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
Strongest Heroes of All Time (Decided by a poll on Spike’s website (in no particular order)
- Master Chief
- Samus
- Marcus Fenix
Best Shooter of the Year
- Battlefield Bad Company 2
- Bioshock 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – WINNER
- Halo: Reach
Best Performance By A Human Male
- Gary Oldman (Sgt. Reznov – Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch)
- John Cleese (Jasper – Fable III – Lionhead)
- Martin Sheen (Illusive Man – Mass Effect 2 – Bioware)
- Nathan Fillion (Sergeant Edward Buck – Halo: Reach – Bungie)
- Neil Patrick Harris (Peter Parker/Amazing Spider Man – Spider Man: Shattered Dimensions – Activision) – WINNER
- Rob Wiethoff (John Marston – Red Dead Redemption – Rockstar San Diego)
- Sam Worthington (Alex Mason – Call of Duty: Black Ops – Treyarch)
Best Independent Game
- Joe Danger
- Limbo – WINNER
- Super Meat Boy
- Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Most Anticipated Game of the Year (decided by a poll on spiketv.com)
- Portal 2
Best Driving Game
- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Best Adapted Video Game
- Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game
Best Role Playing Game
- Mass Effect 2
Best Music Game
- Rock Band 3
Best Soundtrack
- DJ Hero 2
Best Original Score
- Red Dead Redemption
Best Original Game
- Red Dead Redemption
Best Downloadable Content
- Red Dead Redemption
Best Zombie Game
- Red Dead Redemption
Best Dressed Assassin
- Ezio Auditore de Firenze
Biggest Badass
- Kratos
