Last night, the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards aired live from California, and with it came plenty of reveals, and anticipation. For the most part, the awards were a mess. I think in reality, only three of four actual awards were presented within the show’s two hour time span. The rest simply consisted of hyping up the Game of the Year award, telling viewers to go vote, or what really had people talking: the amazing reveals.

First, let’s get to the photos of the night. A ton of celebrities were on hand, such as VGAs host Zachary Levi, who did a fantastic job, Charlie Sheen, Will.I.Am, and even Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, accepting the award inducting The Legend of Zelda as the first entry into the Gaming Hall of Fame. Take a look below:

Now, on to the real meat of the night: the reveals!

The must buzzed about title going into the night was the promised PS3 exclusive The Last of Us. Going in to last night’s awards, this title only released a vague screenshot, and a very mysterious trailer that revealed nothing. Now, the debut trailer is right below for your enjoyment:

One of the best things about the game is that once the developer logo for Naughty Dog, who created Uncharted and Jak & Daxter, the crowd went absolutely insane. And, the reveal also works incredible wonders. Personally, it has me really excited for the title, although no release date has yet been announced. The cinematic is just absolutely beautiful, and definitely sparks excitement.

Among other big reveals of the night, we also had a short trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots. We, unfortunately, don’t get to see the heroes’ side of things, but we do see the villain’s very Occupy Wall Street type of perspective, if OWS was brought to an extreme level:

No release date has yet been revealed either for the upcoming follow-up to the successful Rainbow Six: Vegas series.

Finally, we have another short trailer for you to reveal that The Amazing Spider-Man is back! The movie tie-in has a lot to offer, especially considering that Spider-Man 2 is seen as the ultimate tie-in game when it comes to this type of genre. Spidey returns with an all-new look, taken from the upcoming reboot, and the trailer features what seems more like what would be a side mission, with the web slinger fighting robots. However, it’s the gigantic robot fight that the wall crawler finds himself in that has people really excited, and mirrors something out of God of War III:

The Amazing Spider-Man will release right around the time of the movie, which hits theaters on July 3rd, 2012.

You can head over to GameTrailers’ Youtube page to see all the trailers from last night, including the reveal that Tony Hawk is stepping back and bringing back the new with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, a gameplay-ish trailer for Bioshock: Infinite, a first look at Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Hitman: Absolution, an all-new Tekken, Epic Games’ all-new Fortnite, and so very many more.

Finally, here is the full list of winners of this year’s VGAs:

GAME OF THE YEAR
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

STUDIO OF THE YEAR
Bethesda Game Studios

CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
The Joker – Batman:  Arkham City

VIDEO GAME HALL OF FAME AWARD
“The Legend of Zelda”

GAMER GOD AWARD
Blizzard Entertainment

BEST XBOX 360 GAME
Batman: Arkham City

BEST PS3 GAME
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

BEST Wii GAME
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

BEST PC GAME
Portal 2

BEST HANDHELD/MOBILE GAME
Super Mario 3D Land

BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

BEST ACTION ADVENTURE GAME
Batman: Arkham City

BEST RPG
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

BEST MULTI-PLAYER
Portal 2

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Fight Night Champion

BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME
NBA 2K12

BEST DRIVING GAME
Forza Motorsport 4

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat

BEST MOTION GAME
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Minecraft

BEST ADAPTED VIDEO GAME
Batman: Arkham City

BEST SONG IN A GAME
“Build that Wall (Zia’s Theme)” by Darren Korb – Bastion

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Bastion

BEST GRAPHICS
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN MALE
Stephen Merchant as Wheatley – Portal 2

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN FEMALE
Ellen McLain as GLaDOS – Portal 2

BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAME
Bastion

BEST DLC
Portal 2 Peer Review

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Mass Effect 3

GAMETRAILERS.COM TRAILER OF THE YEAR
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – E3 2011 Trailer

EA SPORTS NFL BLITZ DIGITAL COVER ATHLETE
Ray Rice

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