The VGA Awards – The Results

Last night played host to the Video Game Awards 2011 on Spike TV, or wherever you happened to be streaming from. The list of awards is clearly as long as an elephants trunk, and the amount of titles involved for nominees is also equally long but now all the toiling is over and the results are in!

Of the four viewer voted categories, ‘Character of the Year’, ‘Most Anticipated Game’, ‘Trailer of the Year’, ‘NFL Blitz Cover Star’, the results were as follows:

• Character of the Year: The Joker (For his performance in Batman: Arkham City)
• Most Anticipated Game: Mass Effect 3
• Trailer of the Year: Assassins Creed: Revelations
• NFL Blitz Cover Star: Ray Rice

The main list of awards and winners are as follows:

• Best DLC: Peer Review (Portal 2)
• Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
• Best Performance By a Human Female: Ellen McLain as GladOS (Portal 2)
• Best Performance By a Human Male: Stephen Merchant as Wheatley (Portal 2)
• Best Graphics: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
• Best Original Score: Bastion
• Best Song in a Game: ‘Build that Wall (Zia’s Theme) By Darren Kobb (Bastion)
• Best Adapted Game: Batman: Arkham City
• Best Motion Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Best Independent Game: Minecraft
• Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat
• Best Driving Game: Forza Motorsport 4
• Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K12
• Best Individual Sports Game: Fight Night Champion
• Best Multi-Player: Portal 2
• Best RPG: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Best Action Adventure Game: Batman: Arkham City
• Best Shooter: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Super Mario 3D Land
• Best Wii Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Best PC Game: Portal 2
• Best PS3 Game: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
• Best Xbox 360 Game: Batman: Arkham City
• Studio of the Year: Bethesda Game Studios
• Game Of The Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Well there you have it, a long, long list of all the awards and the games that won them. Any surprises in there for you? It’s nice to see a game like Bastion deserving all the praise it has gotten, and seeing that games like Portal 2 cleaned up the show with 5 awards to its name! It is interesting to see that the best game on the 360 wasn’t an exclusive, like it was on the PS3. Obviously some things come as no surprise: best shooter being Modern Warfare 3, best RPG being Skyrim, and best Wii game beingSkyward Sword. Overall though some very well deserved awards and some nice unexpected treats too!