{"id":1750,"date":"2011-12-01T02:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2011-12-01T02:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:32:01","slug":"transmissions-spike-video-game-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Spike Video Game Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star of NBC\u2019s \u201cChuck,\u201d voice actor for \u201cFallout: New Vegas\u201d and \u201cHalo: Reach,\u201d owner of\"\"<\/a> the nerd culture site www.TheNerdMachine.com and video game super fan Zachary Levi will host Spike TV\u2019s 2011 \u201cVideo Game Awards\u201d (#VGA). Telecasting from Los Angeles, CA and featuring some of the most notable names in video games, Hollywood, music, sports and more, the two-hour event honoring the outstanding achievements within the video game industry over the past year will premiere LIVE on Spike TV, MTV2 and Spike.com on Saturday, December 10 at 8:00 PM ET\/5:00 PM PT.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cZac Levi is an avid gamer who is truly a part of gaming culture and understands the fans,\u201d says Casey Patterson, Executive Producer and Executive Vice President, Event Production, Talent & Studio Relations for Viacom Entertainment Group. \u201cHe has great ideas about this year\u2019s show. Zac is all about honoring the year in gaming and ushering in the future by showcasing massive world premieres at this year\u2019s event. We’re excited to be working with Zac. ”<\/p>\n

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\nAudience members and viewers will also be treated to a live performance by Grammy Award recording artists The Black Keys, who will perform their video game hit, \u201cLonely Boy,\u201d and the duration of the festivities will feature Grammy nominee and dance music innovator deadmau5, who will transform the show with his visual representation of sound into a real life video game experience.<\/p>\n

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Among the list of presenters and attendees are Sports Illustrated cover model and star of \u201cBattleship\u201d Brooklyn Decker, \u201cFamily Guy\u201d star and voice of Joker in the \u201cMass Effect\u201d series Seth Green, cast members of \u201cWorkaholics\u201d Blake Anderson, Adam Devine and Anders Holm, multiplatinum and Grammy Award-winning recording artist LL Cool J, stars of the upcoming \u201cAmerican Reunion\u201d Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott, the most prolific quarterback and wide receiver combination in NFL history, Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, and many more to be announced shortly.<\/p>\n

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This year, Spike TV will be bestowing the Gamer God Award upon the three founders of Blizzard Entertainment for their immense contributions to the electronic gaming medium. Creators of the \u201cWorld of Warcraft,\u201d \u201cStarcraft\u201d and \u201cDiablo\u201d entertainment universes, Blizzard is celebrating its 20th anniversary \u2013 as well as the 15th anniversary of \u201cDiablo\u201d \u2013 in 2011. Co-founders Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce will accept the award and treat Blizzard\u2019s global community to the full never-before-seen opening cinematic of the company\u2019s upcoming release, \u201cDiablo III.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The talent joins the already announced never-before-seen world premieres of the most anticipated games of 2012 and beyond, including BioWare\u2019s next project, the next \u201cAlan Wake\u201d game and \u201cMetal Gear Solid: Rising,\u201d \u201cTom Clancy\u2019s Rainbow 6 Patriots,\u201d \u201cTransformers: Fall of Cybertron,\u201d and Most Anticipated Game nominee, \u201cBioShock Infinite\u201d as part this year\u2019s \u201cVGA\u201d festivities.<\/p>\n

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For additional information about other \u201cVGA\u201d world exclusives and announcements, fans can log onto VGA.spike.com and get updates via Twitter @SPIKE_TV, as well as the hashtag #VGA.<\/p>\n

Leading the way with 12 nominations at the 2011 \u201cVGAs\u201d is \u201cPortal 2\u201d by Valve. Rocksteady Studios\u2019 second adventure featuring the Dark Knight, \u201cBatman: Arkham City\u201d garnered 10 nominations, while the third chapter in the Nathan Drake adventure, \u201cUncharted 3: Drake\u2019s Deception\u201d by Naughty Dog and independent game \u201cBastion\u201d rounded out the top most- nominated games with 9 and 5 nods each, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Nominees for Spike TV\u2019s 2011 \u201cVideo Game Awards\u201d were determined by the VGA Advisory Council, made up of a group of some of the most well-respected video game journalists from media outlets including Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Game Informer Magazine, Kotaku, Joystiq, GameSpot, IGN and WIRED.<\/p>\n

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For the first time, Viacom Media Networks will broaden the reach and impact of the 2011 \u201cVGAs\u201d by simultaneously airing the show LIVE on both Spike TV and MTV2, as well as on Spike.com. Internationally, the \u201cVGAs\u201d will air in over 100 countries and territories around the world.<\/p>\n

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Mark Burnett, Casey Patterson and Carol Donovan will serve as executive producers of Spike TV\u2019s 2011 \u201cVideo Game Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star of NBC\u2019s \u201cChuck,\u201d voice actor for \u201cFallout: New Vegas\u201d and \u201cHalo: Reach,\u201d owner of the nerd culture site www.TheNerdMachine.com and video game super fan Zachary Levi will host Spike TV\u2019s 2011 \u201cVideo Game Awards\u201d (#VGA). Telecasting from Los Angeles, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[118,14,171,66,441,442],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmissions","tag-chuck","tag-james","tag-spike","tag-video-game","tag-video-game-awards","tag-zachary-levi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}