Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter during Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show tonight, but not without causality.
The rules of the VGA acceptance speech are: If you go past your allotted time, a cosplaying soldier teabags you on stage. When Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling blew the time limit, he tossed the award to Michael Condrey, co-founder and chief development officer at Sledgehammer Games, and ran off stage.
So it was Condrey who took the crotch to the face as presenter Charlie Sheen grinned and watched.
Squeaky4all
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 2:45 PMAs if bf3 didnt win, how much does one of these awards cost?
Trex
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 3:13 PMReally?
I know it sold shit loads, but its done nothing new and nothing for genre.
Steve
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 3:19 PM“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter”
The same way Transformers 3 should win the Oscar for best picture obviously. I know gaming is still a fairly young medium but a little taste would do wonders for our credibility.
Jamie
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 3:51 PMYou are asking for taste in an award show hosted by Charlie Sheen with people being teabagged on stage. I am pretty sure WHO won is irrelevant by that point.
Braaains
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 5:58 PMYou make a fair point.
Arkayn - Adrian Milano
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 3:53 PMYeah alot of people that love call of duty even went, yeah what’s the big deal this year man? It’s like any awards show, it’s not a real award it’s just marketing to promote product, boost celeb status etc etc. I say we all just let it go perhaps?
jeuffre
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 6:29 PMcausality? really? I’m surprised no one caught that yet…
Haydn
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 6:37 PMI love how he said they were working hard in the studio constantly updating the game when MW3 is pretty much a map pack for MW2. Ah well..
Pres
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 10:39 PMAward shows very rarely give awards to those deserving of them, and when they do it feels more like a coincidence than a well thought out decision. It doesn’t matter what medium the awards are for, it’s all the same bs.
EmbraceThePing
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 11:52 PMOh great now the video is blocked. Thanks viacom, you pickle smokers.
HongMongKong
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 3:08 AMIn case anyone hasn’t noticed, BF3 is the biggest piece of crap ever to hit consoles. Graphics, sure, they look pretty on PC, but even the introductory sequence was a pixelly piece of crap on my 1080p LED. BF3 = Waste of $90 and hours of my life hoping it would get better at some point.
InformedGamer
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:23 AMAre you really complaining that a game looks dated on a console running hardware from 2005?
You’re clearly everything that is wrong with the progression of gaming.
Lazysleep
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 1:13 PMCall of duty killed my parents, caused poverty, blah blah boo hoo etc
AerintheADEQUATE
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 5:25 AMNo way! Me too! Wanna come over and see my secret hideout cave and then go fight crime together? It’ll be the best!
moloko
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 1:43 PMRAGE LOL up for best Shooter LOL LOL LOL LOL.
Bluemaxx
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 1:51 PMwith the amount of game ruining bugs in BF3 it really didn’t deserve to win…
i’m not CoD fanboy but BF3 has left a bad taste in my mouth so i’m not too upset about this :)
Scott
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 2:24 PMMW3 deserved the win :D