videoGaiden Game Awards 2008

Rab and Ryan are rounding off their current run of videoGaiden with the inaugural videoGaiden Game Awards 2008.

The chaps have been extremely even-handed and fair, so there's not a single mention of Realtime Worlds, Dynamo Games or Even Tag in there anywhere.  Instead they've concentrated on the smaller, less well known titles and are continuing their mission to spread the love.

Rather than try emulate their wacky style or parody their unique zany humour, we'll just cut and paste the press release from Gamespress...

BBC Scotland is proud to announce the third videoGaiden TV special, the very special “videoGaiden Game Awards 2008”

The BBC’s only official industry videogame awards show features a host of guest stars, and celebrates what may have been the greatest year gaming’s ever had with an array of wonderful awards and Jonathan Coulton’s first UK TV performance. Here are the awards and nominations in full:

GAME OF THE YEAR

Portal
Earth Defence Force 2017
Super Mario Galaxy
Mass Effect
Call of Duty 4

ACHIEVEMENT IN STORYTELLING

Mass Effect
Portal
Bioshock
Hotel Dusk

BEST MUSIC

Portal
Halo 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Bioshock

BEST ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAME

Halo 3
Call of Duty 4
Guild Wars Eye of The North

BEST VISUALS

Bioshock
Assassin’s Creed
Okami
Super Mario Galaxy

ACHIEVEMENT IN GAMEPLAY

GodHand
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Endless Ocean
Peggle

BEST HANDHELD OR MOBILE GAME

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Anno 1701
Might & Magic 2

It'll be going out on BBC2 Scotland/Sky Channel 952 at 22:55 on Sunday March 30th and streamed via the flash player at www.bbc.co.uk/videogaiden.