Interactive Achievement Awards Reward Excellence, Punish Everyone Else With Jay Mohr's Underpants

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