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The Walking Dead cleans up at the Spike VGAs

Half-Life 2 is Game of the Decade.

by Matt Maguire on 10 December 2012, 12:24 pm

Spike TV’s Video Game Awards celebrated its tenth anniversary over the weekend by showering Telltale Games with honours.

Telltale's episodic adventure title The Walking Dead took out Game of the Year, Best Downloadable Game, and Best Adapted Video Game at Saturday night's ceremony. In addition, Telltale won Best Studio, and Melissa Hutchison won Best Performance by a Human Female for her role as Clementine in the game.

Elsewhere, Half-Life 2 won Best Game of the Decade, beating out Batman: Arkham City, BioShock, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Mass Effect 2, Portal, Red Dead Redemption, Shadow of the Colossus, Wii Sports, and World of Warcraft.

Notably, Journey won Best Independent Game over Dust: An Elysian Tail, Fez, and Mark of the Ninja.

Although not marred by embarrassing incidents like last year’s teabagging fiasco, the awards nonetheless remained inessential, and featured the usual celebrity admissions of geekiness, opaque nomination and voting systems, and general audience pandering.

The complete list of Spike VGA winners:

Game of the Year
The Walking Dead: The Game

Studio of the Year
Telltale Games, The Walking Dead: The Game

Character of the Year
Clap Trap, Borderlands 2

Entertainment Weekly and Spike VGA Best Game of the Decade
Half-Life 2

Best Xbox 360 Game
Halo 4

Best PS3 Game
Journey

Best Wii/Wii U Game
New Super Mario Bros. U

Best PC Game
XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Best Shooter
Borderlands 2

Best Action Adventure Game
Dishonored

Best RPG
Mass Effect 3

Best Multiplayer Game
Borderlands 2

Best Individual Sports Game
SSX

Best Team Sports Game
NBA 2K13

Best Driving Game
Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Best Song in a Game
"Cities" by Beck, Sound Shapes

Best Original Score
Journey

Best Graphics
Halo 4

Best Independent Game
Journey

Best Fighting Game
Persona 4 Arena

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Sound Shapes

Best Performance by a Human Female
Melissa Hutchison as Clementine, The Walking Dead: The Game

Best Performance by a Human Male
Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack, Borderlands 2