Canadian Video Game Awards

EDIT: This was supposed to go up a while ago, back when the CVAs were still relevant. I had the whole thing written up in OpenOffice, but for some reason, I never got around to publishing it till now. So yeah, it says they ended like 15 minutes ago, but no... quite a while ago. Just prepping you for that.

If you've been following the event (and if you haven't, shame on you!), then you'll know that the second annual "Canadian Video Game Awards" just ended roughly 15 minutes ago. It was only an hour long (not as long as I expected, honestly...), and all the games that won rewards truly deserved them. In case you didn't catch it, here are the winners in each of the categories, as well as the nominees:

Game of the Year – Mass Effect 2 (Bioware/Electronic Arts)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Dead Rising 2

FIFA 11

Mass Effect 2

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Best Console Game – Mass Effect 2 (Bioware/Electronic Arts)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Dead Rising 2

FIFA 11

Mass Effect 2

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Best Game on the Go – Osmos for iPad (Hemisphere Games)

Lil’ Pirates

Osmos for iPad

Scrabble for iPad

A Space Shooter for 2 Bucks

Trainyard

Best Downloadable Game – Deathspank (Hothead Games/Electronic Arts)

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero

Deathspank

HOARD

Shank

A Space Shooter for 2 Bucks

Best Audio – Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising

Mass Effect 2

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Best Social/Casual Game – Pocket God on Facebook (Frima Studio/Bolt Creative)

Dex Hamilton: Bug Quest

GardenMind

Mercenaries of War

Pocket God on Facebook

Pot Farm

Best Game Design – Mass Effect 2 (Bioware/Electronic Arts)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Deathspank

Mass Effect 2

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Trainyard

Best Technology – Kinect for XBOX 360 (Big Park Game Studio/Microsoft)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Kinect for XBOX 360

Mass Effect 2

Scrabble for iPad

Your Shape Fitness Evolved

Best Visual Arts – Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Mass Effect 2

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Tron: Evolution

Best Writing – Mass Effect 2 (Bioware/Electronic Arts)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising

Mass Effect 2

Prince of Persia – The Forgotten Sands

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction

Best Student Game – WOMP! (XnEh?/Centre for Digital Media)

Codex

Ginkgo

Hootlin

WOMP!

Innovation Award – ModNation Racers (United Front Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Kinect Joy Ride

ModNation Racers

Scrabble for iPad

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Your Shape Fitness Evolve

Well, I guess it's pretty safe to say that Mass Effect 2 pretty much cleaned up this year, and for good reason! Here's to BioWare's and everyone else's success in the coming years! Oh, and BioWare, if you're reading this, why the hell haven't we seen an MDK3 yet!?? HUH!? Anyways, that's it for my update post guys.... Happy gaming!