MTV Movie Awards Adds Game Category

The next MTV Music Awards show will feature a Best Video Game Based on a Movie award, reports Gamasutra.com. Titles up for the award this year include "Spider-Man 2 (Activision) and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Vivendi Universal Games), and also titles such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (EA), Van Helsing (Vivendi Universal Games), and The Incredibles (THQ)".

Other awards to consider

[CrosbieFitch]

How about: "Best Movie Based on a Game"?

Or even: "Best Machinima Movie"?

Or better still: "Most original game not based on a movie, toy, book, etc."?

Brought To You By...

[Chi Hsuan Men]

...XBOX 360??.

While the sole criteria for the MTV Movie Awards is entertainment & marketing hype (most certainly not content), I honestly think this award is something NOBODY cares about. Does anyone remember the train wreck that was the SpikeTV Video Game Awards? With categories like: Most addictive game fueled by Dew" presented by Virgin Mobile and Moutain Dew.

Yeah, nobody cared about that show either...

I don't think it's a revelation to point out that this "award" is simply an advertisement hitting MTV's target demographic of 15 - 25; however, I'm simply wondering who is paying to have this award included in the show? My money is on Microsoft, but I could be wrong...

Let's face it, this kind of marketing is not meant to address the sort of gamers who read /. and Penny Arcade. This is crap meant to get into the face of the masses so EA can ship more copies of their latest re-hashed piece of crap.

Re:WHOOPS! ZONK DID IT AGAIN!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

agreed, it is totally unacceptable for Zonk to pull this shit. ESPECIALLY if there were comments on the article already. I have seen that happen too. In fact, once i was responding to on of the comments and when i tried to send it through i got some sort of an error. When i went back to respond again, guess what -- no article. WTF? I am prevented from having a discussion with someone now, just because Zonk doesn't want to appear incompetent?

Well, it is too late for that. I was never really too sold on Zonk anyway, but he really sealed the deal on being the worst slashdot editor when he started posting his own reviews of 4 month old games on the front page. Talk about a worthless abuse of his editorial power.

Anyways, that is just me venting. But i do agree with you, either post the story or don't. ONce it is up it is up. If is a dupe, then so be it. You will have to put up with people calling you on it. But regadless of if it is a dupe or not, there may be some interesting things said about it -- even more so now that people have had a first change to proceess the story already.

Anyways, yeah. Good post man.

retroactive editing is not editing

[kajoob]

Editing should be done BEFORE the article is posted

Re:WHOOPS! ZONK DID IT AGAIN!!!

[aztektum]

While we're on the WTF wagon, I suggest that Zonk also stop posting every fucking rumor about next gen consoles and upcoming games?

remember it's NEWS FOR NERDS, not CONJECTURE FOR HALFWITS. Rumors aren't news, they're RUMORS.

I swear I come to /. anymore just to see ridiculous shit. It's to the point where I expect to see "Xbox2 project manager burps, does this mean it'll have a hard drive?"