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Last night was the annual video game awards which sums together the best video games across multiple platforms of 2011. Obviously in the list their will be no surprise of some of these winners and they are well deserved. Here is a list of the winners of each category:

Best PC Game: Portal 2
Best PS3 Game: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Xbox 360 Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Graphics: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Shooter: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Best DLC: Peer Review (Portal 2)
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Best Performance By a Human Female: Ellen McLain as GladOS (Portal 2)
Best Performance By a Human Male: Stephen Merchant as Wheatley (Portal 2)
Best Original Score: Bastion
Best Song in a Game: ‘Build that Wall (Zia’s Theme) By Darren Kobb (Bastion)
Best Adapted Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Motion Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Independent Game: Minecraft
Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat
Best Driving Game: Forza Motorsport 4
Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K12
Best Individual Sports Game: Fight Night Champion
Best Multi-Player: Portal 2
Best RPG: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Best Action Adventure Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Super Mario 3D Land
Best Wii Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Studio of the Year: Bethesda Game Studios

And lastly the most prestigious game of 2011?

Game Of The Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

There was no surprise that best shooter would go to Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3, keeping the call of duty series consistent winners of this category.

As usual Portal 2 managed to gather a load of awards, 5 awards and this again was no surprise for this game.

One of the surprises, at least to me was the sports game of the year, and not seeing FIFA take this as easily as I would have expected.

Now for game of the year it was good to see Skyrim to take the thrown away from Portal 2. Skyrim has had a huge launch and is up there beating modern warfare 3 as the most played game of 2011. (based on hours played and hours per session)

Reading an article online it picked up on a very interesting point about the awards.



How can batman win the best Xbox game when Skyrim is the most played game on Xbox? It doesn't really make sense about how that was figured out by the panel. The panel is made up of 25 game journalists, which in my opinion isn't the best option when deciding the best games of the year, and it's the actual customers, the gamers who really know what they like.

Overall it was a successful event for multiple games and there were some very obvious winners.

How do you feel about how the winners are decided and the results of the awards?

If you played BF3 from the beginning then you should know. :derp:

The game seems very balanced to me. The only things worth "nerfing" were the IRNV scopes & the flashlights, both of which have seen fixes on the PC. If you disagree they needed fixing you were probably one of the ones who abused them tbh.

I'm surprised there wasn't a category for best video game trailer.

VGA's = Rigged.

Honestly, most of the games that we're voted best aren't deserving of their position, especially MW3, that just doesn't even make sense to me.

It's amazing that a lot of games that were deserving really missed out due to $$.

actually there was. assassins creed revelations won that.

Really? Provide me with some source links please :p

vga.spike.com

No more has changed between battlefield 2 and 3 then modern warfare 2 and 3 :dumb:
I played battlefield 3 and really didn't enjoy The multiplayer, it was slow and boring compared to mw3s fast paced games.

I fell exactly the same, don't get me wrong battlefield is a great game and I have lots of respect for it, it blows MW3 out of the water in graphics and realism, but i just find the fast paced action of MW3 so much more fun