When Spike TV's Video Game Awards started I was confused that maybe I somehow was watching the wrong channel; I thought I accidentally ended up on a porn station, but I was in fact watching the intro presentation to the Video Game Awards.

Jack Black, the host, was completely nude with only an Xbox360 and the PS3 covering his privates. He was mimicking intercourse with the console systems, including having rough sex by strangling himself with the cables and cords. His wife and child walked in on him (represented by the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS) and out of anger the Nintendo Wii assassinated him with a snub-nose revolver.

As vulgar as that was, it was actually one of the less offensive acts of the show. Following Jack Black's intercourse with the gaming systems was his appearance on stage in a very tight white shirt and in nothing else but his underwear doing his usual singing that you might find in his R-ratted films like The Pick of Destiny. The best way to describe the theme of the 2008 Video Game Awards is as a sex/anti-God/anti-any good morals and decency theme. In the opening act God showed up supporting gamers and Jack Black. The devil made an appearance as well and he was accompanied by three demons. One of the demons was the demon of books and knowledge, the second demon was representing exercise and good eating habits while the last demon was the demon of healthy relationships.

As you might expect, Jack Black defeated the Devil and video game supremacy gets to rule the world. I have never felt more ashamed to call myself a gamer as I did in the first fifteen minutes of the 2008 Video Game Awards. While the rest of the awards where not as offensive as the first fifteen to twenty minutes of the show, vulgarity and poor taste continued until the very end. Arrogance along with bad jokes in poor taste was what was on the menu the entire night, starting with the host, Jack Black and followed by just about everyone else from the way-arrogant supermodel presenter who showed up in underwear and no pants as well, to the strung out Nil Patrick Harris who looks more than ever in need of a serious rehab. Spike TV even went as far as to give the video game God Award to the creator of Spore and the Sims (an outspoken atheist who actually claimed that books are waste of time and gaming is what life is all about). And, on top of everything, not only was the presentation in very poor taste, but even though I can not prove it, as a gamer and as a video game critic I am willing to say that at least part of the categories of the 2008 Spike TV Video Game Awards were completely rigged. But before I get to the justice (or in this case, the injustice) of the awards, I better list what award was given and who received them.