While the importance of the Spike VGAs is the subject of debate, the Interactive Achievement Awards are a night of awarding outstanding achievement without Felicia Day getting messy with food objects. So who took out the titles this year?
The 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards were held at DICE in Las Vegas, and Jay Mohr’s hosting aside, it was a somewhat humbling and heartwarming event without gimmicks or viewer voting and only a few bad jokes.
While some winners were hardly a shock, such as Bastion’s award for Best Downloadable game, others were a little more surprising – like Skylanders’ win for Outstanding Innovation in Gaming.
Uncharted 3 made a clean sweep in the art portion of the awards (Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering,) while Skyrim took out four awards including the ever coveted Game Of The Year.
I was watching, but I was too busy trying to wipe the image of Mohr in his underwear from my mind to list the winners, so here’s one thanks to Kotaku.
- Best Original Music Composition: Portal 2
- Best Sound Design: Battlefield 3
- Best Story: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Best Character Performance: Wheatley
- Best Downloadable game: Bastion
- Best Casual Game: Fruit Ninja Kinect
- Social Networking Game of the Year: Sims Social
- Role-playing / MMO Game of the year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Outstanding Innovation in Gaming: Skylanders
- Sports Game of the Year: FIFA 12
- Racing Game of the Year: Forza 4
- Fighting Game of the Year: Mortal Kombat
- Strategy / Simulation Game of the Year: Orcs Must Die
- Hall of Fame 2012 Inductee: Tim Sweeney
- Family Game of the Year: LittleBigPlanet 2
- Mobile Game of the Year: Infinity Blade 2
- Handheld Game of the Year: Super Mario 3D Land
- Adventure Game of the Year: Batman: Arkham City
- Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay: Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Outstanding Achievement in Connectivity: Portal 2
- Action Game of the Year: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Outstanding Achievement in Animation: Uncharted 3
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction: Uncharted 3
- Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering: Uncharted 3
- Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Game of the Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Also, Jay Mohr kept talking about getting everyone pregnant. Make of that what you will.
[Kotaku]
