Something’s Fishy Here
Spike TV recently announced the winners of its 2007 Video Game Awards. Spike’s Video Game Awards have always been a little suspect as it’s never been made quite clear as to how the winners are selected and who actually is doing the selecting. In the past games have won awards before they were even released. Not to be outdone by prior years, this year’s awards also have a few suspect selections among the award winners. Rock Band took home three awards this year - not to take anything away from Rock Band which is a great game, but it’s a bit suspect when the top award winner is published by MTV which also happens to own Spike TV. However, this is not nearly as egregious as this year’s winner of the Most Addictive Video Game Fueled by Dew award (yes, that was one of the categories). The winner was, of course, Halo 3. What other game could possibly win an award sponsored by Mountain Dew than the game that the soda already sponsors? There’s even a “Halo 3″ flavor of Mountain Dew available. With blatant instances like these, it makes you wonder what’s the real story behind the other awards as well.
