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VGAs’ Overall Television Ratings Slide For Fourth Straight Year

The Video Game Awards are a high-profile event, but trade mainstream exposure for a production some gamers find cheaply stereotypical. That bargain still hasn’t conclusively paid off; overall ratings declined for a third straight year, but gained in some demographics.


December 12, 2010

Uncharted 3 Is Due Out Nov. 1, 2011

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Is The Sequel To Prototype Still A Prototype?

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Resistance 3 Gets A Release Date

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Kratos Enters The Arena Of Mortal Kombat

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BioWare Is VGA Studio Of The Year

BioWare, makers of Mass Effect 2, was just named Best Studio at the 2010 Video Game Awards in Los Angeles.


Batman: Arkham City Gets A Little More Strange

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It’s Spike Video Game Awards Time

Equal parts Oscars and E3 keynote – well, maybe more folks are tuning in for the latter – the 2010 Video Game Awards are on, live on both coasts, on Spike TV. We’ll be breaking out news as it happens.