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2013 - Issue 8 - December

Vegas Magazine - Niche Media - There is a place beyond the crowds, beyond the ropes, where dreams are realized and success is celebrated. You are invited.

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F ront Runners Presenting a fantasy game award was a dream come true for David Spade. Play On, Players THE FIRST SPIKE TV VIDEO GAME AWARDS PROVED THAT VEGAS IS THE PLACE WHERE GORGEOUS WOMEN AND ÜBERNERDS CAN FINALLY COME TOGETHER IN PEACE. BY ANDREA BENNETT 20 PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANK MICELOTTA/GETTY IMAGES I n a photo confirming that unnatural pairings are simply business as usual in Las Vegas, David Spade and Pamela Anderson joined forces with a squadron of Star Wars Stormtroopers to present the award for best fantasy game to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at the first Spike TV Video Game Awards, on December 2, 2003, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The annual awards, broadcast that year on Spike TV, were conceived to pay tribute to video games and their designers, animation, technology, music, and performances. The marriage of babelicious broads and supernerds found its perfect home in Vegas, known for hosting both the massive Consumer Electronics Show and the porn industry's AVN Awards, at times in the same week. The Video Game Awards also give attendees a sneak peak at the future of gaming, with world-premiere footage from some of the industry's most anticipated games. That first awards ceremony featured categories like best performance by a human, won by Ray Liotta for his role as Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and best first-person action, won by the original Call of Duty. The 2004 edition of the ultrasuccessful Madden NFL took home that year's prize for game of the year. Fast-forward past 10 years of technological innovation and 10 more iterations of the perennially best-selling Madden NFL, and this year's show, on December 7, will be streamed live on Xbox, PlayStation 3, Twitch, and iOS and Android devices, as well as the websites of Spike, Comedy Central, MTV, MTV2, and BET. The name has been changed—it's now called VGX, "the next generation of Video Game Awards," according to Spike TV—and the word "human" has been dropped from the performance categories. A portent of things to come, perhaps? V VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 020_V_FOB_FR_VGA_Dec13.indd 20 11/20/13 3:45 PM

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