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No TV? Watch The Spike Video Game Awards Here, Live [Update]

If you’re somewhere without a cable television or, worse, no television at all, you can still follow the action from tonight’s 2011 Spike Video Game Awards live, right here. Courtesy of Spike and MTV Networks, we’re glad to bring you live streaming video of the broadcast.


December 16, 2010
News

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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News

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.


December 7, 2010
News

While You Were Sleeping

Kotaku AU

While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.

It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!


News

This Is Your Host For The 2010 Spike Video Game Awards

Last year’s installment of Spike’s Video Game Awards didn’t have a specific host. That’s OK, because this year’s are being hosted by a man with enough talent for two award shows.


December 21, 2008
Uncategorized

What Do Game Awards Mean, Really?

No TUD for a while, so I’ll reopen the raging debates. And we had one going around the tower lately about the meaning, and utility, of video game awards. I’d like your opinions on this.