On Friday night, Machinima.com hosted its 2nd Annual Inside Gaming Awards show at the Hollywood/Highland venue Marbella. MonsterVine had the opportunity to see the awards program in-person but it was also live broadcasted over UStream as well. Red Dead Redemption swept the awards show bringing home: Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Design. Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops won Best Multiplayer and Best Control, while Sony Santa Monica’s God of War III received marks for Best Game Cinematography and Best Animation.

The archive footage of the awards show is found at Machinima’s YouTube however we have the recap/overall impressions of the event right here. (more…)

Friday I got to sit down and listen to a developer call with Jack Scalici who is the director of creative production at 2K Games, and we got to hear him answer various questions that were emailed. All in all some info we’ve heard before, but a ton of new and interesting information you’ll get here. (more…)

As you could all tell from my Deathspank review I absolutely adored the game, so you know I was as giddy as a schoolgirl when I was given the chance to ask them a few questions in a Q+A recently. Although I will add that they suspiciously decided to not answer my question of whether there will be a downloadable expansion involving a whole new area filled with orphaned bacon, so I’m going to take that as a definite yes.
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