ShatteredMinds

So I was minding my own business, sacrificing goats in the bathtub, when I was linked this article at CNN Money that the Video Game Awards for 2007 were announced yesterday. After looking at the awards, except the Madden game which should’ve gotten “Most Milked Series” award, the last one is really confusing:

MOST ADDICTIVE VIDEO GAME FUELED BY DEW
Halo 3 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Bungie Studios)

What the piss? What’s the meaning of this? We all know that Microsoft hyped and advertised the crap out of Halo 3, like if it was a the second birth of Jesus Christ, and pretty much every Mountain Dew product contained a printed picture of Master Cheif with the Halo logo. You couldn’t even take a sip without having his ugly ass just an inch from your nose, quietly whispering “Buy me!”. Enough about this overhyped peice of shit game. Yes, I have not played it and I believe a game which is advertised to hell and back will fail and get shitty rating by default (see “Kane & Lynch”).

The thing here is that there is a pretty much made up award-category at the VGA. Anyone can bet the poor fragile souls of the VGA caved in to corporate power of Mountain Dew and added this fake award. Possibly got paid to promote Halo 3 even more and give it another award! If the corporate bullshit “FUELED BY DEW” wasn’t there, I would take it seriously (and others as well).
You don’t have to drink a certain beverage to get addicted, there’s no magic going on here, just simple small doses of trimethylxanthine! More like “MOST ADDICTIVE VIDEO GAME WHORED BY DEW”. First Jeff Gerstmann, now this … where is the world of gaming going?