Machinima's "Inside Gaming" Awards

For those of you that are interested in video game awards, but find the "Spike TV Video Game Awards" to be a bit too much of a glorified commercial (though not in an awesome way, like “The Wizard”), there is an alternative.

Our friends at Machinima are scooping Spike TV the night before their award show with an award show of their own, to be hosted on their insanely popular YouTube channel. The “Inside Gaming Awards” will air the first of two special episodes on Black Friday (Nov. 27^th) in which Inside Gaming host The Dead Pixel will announce over 90 nominations across 18 categories including Game of the Year, Best DLC, Best Art Direction and best dick joke in a teen-rated game.

Actually, I may have made that last one up.  Not that I’d be surprised to see this category included. For an example as to why, check out their latest episode:

On December 11^th, right before Spike TV televises their award show, "Inside Gaming" will host an offline awards ceremony in Santa Monica, CA, and announce their own winners. On August 11^th of the following year, Machinima will not be invited to Spike TV's birthday party for cock blocking them several months prior.

Anyway, the moral of this story is that you should watch the first "Inside Gaming Awards" special on Machinima, this Friday, while your dumb family members get trampled to death at 6am sales for shit they could’ve bought for less on eBay any other time of the year but don’t know how to operate a computer. And don’t forget to watch the results show on December 15^th, in which Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will undoubtedly have swept every award despite being nearly identical to the previous games in the series. (Although, I'm personally pulling for Borderlands, FTW!)