Machinima.com Announces Nominees for Inside Gaming Awards 2011

By Lawrence Sonntag | 28 November 2011 | 153 Comments

We’re proud today to announce the nominees that we’re honoring in the Inside Gaming Awards 2011. Though the winners will be announced at the Inside Gaming Awards in Los Angeles on December 9, 2011, the list of categories and nominees are as follows:

GAME OF THE YEAR

BEST TRAILER

BEST MULTIPLAYER

BEST NARRATIVE

BEST ART DIRECTION

BEST ANIMATION

BEST GAME CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST INDIE GAME

[Confused about the lack of Minecraft?]

MOST COMPELLING CHARACTER

BEST DLC

BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAME

MOST ORIGINAL GAME

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Here are some interesting facts for you – there’s a tie for the most nominations. Both Portal 2 and Uncharted 3 are up for consideration in seven different categories, which is astounding. Electronic Arts has the most diverse roster in the nominations, with five of their games released in 2011 earning nominations: Battlefield 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Crysis 2, Dead Space 2, and Dragon Age II. All in all it was an incredible year for video games, which oddly makes the deliberation of the awards all the more difficult.

Here’s the full press release:

MACHINIMA TO HOST LIVE THIRD ANNUAL INSIDE GAMING AWARDS ON DECEMBER 9TH

LOS ANGELES, CA – November 29, 2011 – Machinima, the number one video
entertainment brand for gamers around the world, today announced that it
will again host the annual Inside Gaming Awards, live on December 9th on
Machinima’s YouTube Channel (www.YouTube.com/Machinima). This will mark
the second time Machinima has live-streamed the popular awards show,
which was created to honor the best of the video-gaming industry and the
developers who created the year’s standout game experiences. This year’s
selections again feature The Gamer’s Choice Award, sponsored by Verizon,
which lets fans vote on their favorite game of the year. The
announcement was made by Allen DeBevoise, Chairman and CEO of Machinima.

“Machinima has grown exponentially this year, partly as a result of our
strong engagement with, and devotion to, core gaming and the
intersection of gaming with the rise of online video and social media,”
said DeBevoise. ”Our audience is the largest community of gamers around
the world who demonstrate deeper engagement, in terms of minutes of
video watched, than any other property on the internet, from Vevo to
Facebook. We’re thrilled to celebrate a great year in video gaming,
with our third annual Inside Gaming Awards – from the amazing developers
and publishers that produce them to the fans that make them possible.”

The 2011 Inside Gaming Awards will be held at The Music Box in
Hollywood. Machinima will live-stream the red carpet arrivals, awards
ceremony, post-awards party, gaming tournaments, and interviews with
special guests. The show will also feature a live performance by
world-renowned producer Porter Robinson. In addition, the trailer for
THQ’s latest shooter, which is coming soon to XBLA, PSN, and Steam, will
debut during the ceremony.

Last year’s leading award recipient was Rockstar Games’ Red Dead
Redemption, garnering five official Inside Gaming Awards including Game
of the Year, Best Narrative, Most Compelling Character, Best Original
Score, and Best Sound Design. Activision’s Call of Duty(r): Black Ops
and Sony Computer Entertainment’s God of War(r) III both received two
awards, while Mojang Specifications’ Minecraft won the Gamers’ Choice
Game of the Year as voted for by Machinima’s viewers.

About Machinima

Machinima is the dominant video entertainment network for serious gamers
around the world. The number one entertainment channel on YouTube,
Machinima served over 2 billion video views in 2010 alone, reaches over
105 million gamers monthly, and delivers over 950 million video views a
month, and growing. Machinima’s global content network features
official publisher content, gameplay videos and original content,
including over 20 original weekly shows, all aimed at the coveted 18 -
34 year old male demographic. Machinima is fast-becoming a global
phenomenon with an ability to capture a cultural sensibility and
awareness among a next generation of entertainment consumers and
marketers alike. The company is backed by MK Capital and Redpoint
Ventures, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

153 Comments

Posted by tony (swe1man) on 04 December 11 at 6:03am

Game of the year:skyrim
Best trailer:Dead island
Best multiplayer:Battlefield 3
Best Narrative:Portal 2
Best art Direction:The Elder Scrolls V:skyrim
Best Animation:Uncharted 3(whay is’nt Battlefield 3 with)
Best Game cinematography:Batman:Arkham City
Best Indie Game:Bastion
Most Compelling character:Wheatly
Best dlc:Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam
BEST DOWNLOADABLE game:Bastion
Most original game:from dust
best original score:The Elder Schrolls V:skyrim
Best soumd design:battlefield 3
- Posted by DerringerHKq on 07 December 11 at 12:27pm
  
  I totally agree! Skyrim for Game of the Year! Bthesda made Oblivion (GOTY2006) and Fallout 3 (GOTY2008) so I think that Skyrim is definitely going to be GOTY 2011!
- Posted by fishergold99 on 07 December 11 at 4:11pm
  
  In my opinion, Skyrim wins Game of Year. There is so much to do in the game, and I have been playing the game for about 2 hours a day, and I still have only gotten through about 10% of the whole map. Other obvious wins (in my opinion) is that Best DLC is Rezurrection and best multiplayer is Battlefield 3.
Posted by xxkuroshinigamixx on 04 December 11 at 12:56pm

DEUS EX:HR FOR GOTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’ll be a very sad individual if DX3 does not win GotY,and i will be sad if Adam Jensen does not win “Most Compelling Char.”.end of story.
- Posted by Connor Kelley on 06 December 11 at 9:30pm
  
  Im hoping for the same thing
- Posted by AmstradHero on 12 December 11 at 4:41am
  
  DEHR for GOTY? No way. It’s a game with reasonable stealth mechanics, but marred but a design that favours only stealth and hacking despite it claims that it supports all play-styles (and I did a pacifist playthrough), writing that foreshadows all the “twists” hours beforehand, a stupid zombie-filled late game, and an appalling ending. I enjoyed the stealth aspects of its gameplay and I will applaud it for allowing decent stealth until I’m blue in the face, but its many other flaws mean it’s not GOTY material.
  
  Also, Adam Jensen is about as compelling as a brick. He has about as much character as someone from Skyrim, which isn’t saying much. The fact that he spends half the game acting like a complete idiot when the player (and as a result Jensen himself) can easily know exactly what is going on make his reactions completely disconnected from your experience and making him look like an ignorant moron.
Posted by ssheth1215 on 05 December 11 at 1:25pm

Game of the Year: Batman: Arkham City
Best Trailer: Assassin’s Creed Revelations E3 Trailer
Best Multiplayer: Battlefield 3
Best Narrative: Portal 2
Best Art Direction: Skyrim
Best Animation: Rage
Best Game Cinematography: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Indie Game: Bastion
Most Compelling Character: Nathan Drake- Uncharted 3
Best DLC: Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam
Best Downloadable Game: Orcs Must Die
Most Original Game: From Dust
Best Original Score: Skyrim
Best Sound Design: Battlefield 3
Posted by Bruno BOS on 05 December 11 at 10:02pm

My Humble Opinion

Game Of The Year: Portal 2
Best Trailer: Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Best Multiplayer: Battlefield 3
Best Narrative: Portal 2
Best Art Direction: Portal 2
Best Animation: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Game Cinematography: Gears Of War 3
Best Indie Game: Bastion
Most Compelling Character: Wheatley
Best DLC: Portal 2 – Peer Review
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Most Original Game: Catherine
Best Original Score: Portal 2
Best Sound Design: Portal 2
Posted by Sertz on 06 December 11 at 12:59am

Game of the year:skyrim
Best trailer:Dead island
Best multiplayer:Battlefield 3
Best Narrative:Portal 2
Best art Direction:The Elder Scrolls V:skyrim
Best Animation: Rage ( y no Battlefield 3??)
Best Game cinematography:Batman:Arkham City
Best Indie Game:Bastion
Most Compelling character: Varric
Best dlc:Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam
BEST DOWNLOADABLE game:Bastion
Most original game:from dust
best original score:The Elder Schrolls V:skyrim
Best soumd design:battlefield 3
Posted by Brennan McDonald on 06 December 11 at 4:42pm

Game of the year:Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Best trailer:Dead island!!!
Best multiplayer:Battlefield 3
Best Narrative:Portal 2
Best art Direction:Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Best Animation: Uncharted 3
Best Game cinematography: Dead Space 2
Best Indie Game:Bastion
Most Compelling character: Wheatley!
Best DLC: Either Rezzurection or Peer Review
BEST DOWNLOADABLE game: Bastion
Most original game: From Dust
best original score: Portal 2 – Want you gone.
Best soumd design: Dead Space 2
Posted by Noah Brock on 07 December 11 at 2:38pm

Game of the year:Skyrim
Best trailer:Dead island
Best multiplayer:MW3
Best Narrative:Skyrim
Best art Direction: Skyward Sword
Best Animation:Rage
Best Game cinematography:Batman:Arkham City
Best Indie Game:Bastion
Most Compelling character:Clarke
Best dlc:Black Ops
BEST DOWNLOADABLE game: MTG
Most original game:from dust
best original score:The Elder Schrolls V:skyrim
Best sound design:Portal 2
Posted by Ryan Mulligan on 07 December 11 at 10:20pm

Man would I love to see Deus Ex win something, but wow there are SO MANY GOOD GAMES this year its gonna be IMPOSSIBLE to choose!

I never asked for this ;D
Posted by Cullen Lea on 08 December 11 at 10:17am

The comments work! Yay!! I have also not finished any of these games to make a proper judgement. AHHHHH!
Posted by Thunder45645 on 08 December 11 at 12:19pm

GOTY : MW3 (i dont like skyrim because of the open world theme)
Trailer : Saints Row The Third
Best Multiplayer : BF3
Best Narrative : Portal 2
Best Art Direction : TLOZ : Skyward Sword
Best Animation : Uncharted 3 (just random)
Best Cinematic : GOW 3
Best Idie Game : Binding Of Isaac
Compelling : Wheatley
DLC : Rezzurection
Downloadable : Bastion
Original : Catherine
Original Score : TLOZ : Skyward Sword
Sound : BF3
Posted by Sovatias on 08 December 11 at 10:29pm

In my opinion:
Game Of The Year: Uncharted 3 : Drake’s Deception
Best Trailer: Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Best Multiplayer: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Narrative: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Art Direction: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Animation: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Game Cinematography: Gears Of War 3
Best Indie Game: Bastion
Most Compelling Character: Wheatley
Best DLC: Portal 2 – Peer Review
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Most Original Game: L.A Noire
Best Original Score: Portal 2
Best Sound Design: Battlefield 3
Posted by Killing With Axes on 09 December 11 at 9:01am

Game of the year: Portal 2
Best trailer: Assassin’s Creed: Revalations

Best Narrative: Portal 2
Best art Direction: Portal 2
Best Animation: Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception
Best Game cinematography: Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception

Most Compelling character: Varric Tethras (Dragon Age 2)
Best DLC: Portal 2 Peer Review

Most original game: Catherine
Best original score: Portal 2
Best sound design: Portal 2
Posted by hurranon on 09 December 11 at 9:53am

MW3? what the fuck?
Posted by Kalipso on 09 December 11 at 10:39am

I don’t know about you guys but the best trailer is GTA V trailer :P
and yeah skyrim will win i think
Posted by crash53456 on 09 December 11 at 12:17pm

GOTY: Batman: Arkham City
Best Trailer: Dead Island
Best Multiplayer: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Best Narrative: L.A. Noire
Best Art Direction: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Animation: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Best Game Cinematography: Gears of War 3
Best Indie Game: Bastion
Most Compelling Character: Wheatly – Portal 2
Best DLC: Call of Duty: Black Ops – Rezurrection
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Most Original Game: Catherine
Best Original Score: The Legend of Zelda” Skyward Sword
Best Sound Design: Portal 2
Posted by Madra on 09 December 11 at 1:35pm

People hate on MW3 too much, most of you never played it (or play it constantly “hypocrites”) and you are just on the bandwagon of CoD hate… The story is magnificent the online is, not amazing,but it is a nice fall back to other games. I don’t think it will win anything but stop with the hate, there is a reason it sold more games on launch day than BF3 sold in the first month, it appeals to a wider audience and ALOT of BF3 player enjoy it.
Posted by Christianwwe100 on 09 December 11 at 6:44pm

Game of the year: Portal 2
Best trailer: Assassins Creed Revelations E3 Trailer
Best Multiplayer: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Best Narrative: Portal 2
Best Art Direction: The Elder Scrolls V:SKYRIM
Best Animation: L.A. Noire
Best Game Cinematography: Gears of War 3
Best Indie Game: Bastion
Most Compelling Charcter: Wheatley- Portal 2
Best DLC: Call of Duty Black Ops- Rezurrection
Best Downloadable Game: Orcs Must Die!
Most Orginal Game: From Dust
Best Original Score: Portal 2
Best Sound Desing: Battlefield 3 (why no gears of war 3?)
Posted by Amy on 09 December 11 at 7:06pm

Game of the Year: Skyward Sword
Best Art Direction: Skyward Sword
Best Original Score: Skyward Sword
Best Game Cinematography: Skyward Sword (even though it’s not nominated)
Best Sound Design: Skyward Sword (I mean, come on! the entire soundtrack is orchestrated!!!)
Posted by Wafflez on 09 December 11 at 7:16pm

Game of the Year Skyward Sword.
Posted by Joel on 09 December 11 at 9:28pm

I honestly think that Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword deserved more love. But the winners were all well deserved.
Posted by Ossama on 10 December 11 at 3:48am

GOTY:Batman arkham city
nothing else BLA BLA BLA
Posted by Draghoul on 10 December 11 at 9:24pm

As long as Bastion wins best OST I’m fine.
I know that the Skyrim and Skyward Sword OST’s are pretty good and all, but seriously, have you f-kin’ heard the Bastion OST? I’d go so far as to call it at least one of the top 10 OST’s of all time. Maybe that one’s just me, though.

My personal votes:
Best game: Skyrim or deus ex, probably
Best narrative: I’m pretty sad Bastion wasn’t nominated for this. I guess it’s the difference between narrative meaning story or story telling. I have to go with Deus ex, maybe skyward sword on this one.
Indie game: bastion.
Character: wheatley
DLC: peer review or vietnam
Original score: bastion
Sound design: Maybe bastion to make up for the narrative snub (VO counting as sound design then?), otherwise Portal
Posted by GAMERDUDE on 10 December 11 at 10:46pm

GOTY: Skyrim, even on youtube and other game forums the majority all say the same thing.
I find it well deserved, even the music was breath taking and well put in to any situation.
Theres soo much to do in this its mind blowing.
I play other games too all of them are great in their specific genre, we all should be thankfull this year for the amazing work all game companies have done for us this year.

So as a fellow gamer i speak to all game creators, ‘thank you soo soo much.’
Posted by Mr. Tastix on 12 December 11 at 1:54pm

Varric Tethras outdoes every other damn character in that list. The others are actually pretty compelling but out of all the bad things Dragon Age 2 offers, it makes up for at least some of those with Varric. And he’s a dwarf. ’nuff said.

Best narrative for me would be The Witcher 2, from that list. And GOTY would be down to DX:HR simply because I believe the GOTY needs to incorporate all the aspects of a great game (which would include all the current award categories). Skyrim is a good game, it has better gameplay than DX:HR (in my opinion), but it has an incredibly piss-poor storyline, a lot more bugs (most of which are funny, but still bugs) and I still prefer DX:HR’s art direction.

Just my personal opinion, of course. I’ll be happy so long as DX:HR or Skyrim get GOTY. Both games have their goods and bads, I just feel DX:HR has more of them.
Posted by Fagin on 15 December 11 at 10:59am

Okay, I know a lot of you have serious gripes with DAII, but how could it not be nominated for best score!!! The music in that game is wonderful!
Posted by Tedster on 22 December 11 at 3:31pm

Why the heck Word War III is not on the “most original” list? It is far more innovative than 90% of the games there. And for a change, it makes you think…