'Skyrim' wins top prize at Spike Video Game Awards

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'Skyrim' wins top prize at Spike Video Game Awards

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim flew away with the game of year trophy at the Spike Video Game Awards.

11 December,2011 11:16 am

The dragon-slaying epic also won as best role-playing game, and Skyrim developer Bethesda Softworks was selected as the studio of the year at Saturdays ninth annual Spike Video Game Awards, which honors outstanding achievements within the gaming industry over the past year.We poured ourselves into this for the past three years, said Skyrim game director Todd Howard.Valves sci-fi puzzler Portal 2 and Rocksteadys superhero sequel Batman: Arkham City swept up with the most awards, both winning four trophies.Portal 2 bounced away with the honors for best PC game and downloadable content, as well as best performance by female human for Ellen McLain as GLaDOS and male human for Stephen Merchant as Wheatley. Meanwhile, Arkham City unlocked trophies for best character for the Joker and best action-adventure, adapted and Xbox 360 game.Other titles winning multiple trophies included Supergiant Games role-playing fable Bastion as best downloadable game, song and original score; and the latest entry in Nintendos Zelda franchise, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which was chosen as the best motion and Wii game.The fantastical 25-year-old Zelda role-playing series itself became the first gaming franchise to be inducted into the shows hall of fame. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto from Japan was on hand to accept the honor.None of this would be possible without you, Miyamoto told the crowd. We all at Nintendo are humbled by your support.Chuck star and avid gamer Zachary Levi hosted the ninth annual ceremony at Sony Pictures Studios, appearing on stage on stage alongside three-dimensional augmented reality versions of characters and weapons from game of the year nominees.