Details and Nominees for Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards...

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The 6th Annual Video Game Awards of Spike TV is about to kick off next month, and we've got the list of nominees for this one. Cross your fingers tight and wish your personal fave bets good luck.

This years Awards will be a 2-hour extravaganza premiering live on Spike TV on December 14 (Sunday) at 9:00PM, ET/PT (tape delay west coast) straight form Sony Picture Studios in Culver, City, CA.

Entertainment is well-taken cared of as well with mutli-platinum selling hip-hop artist (and game owner himself) 50 Cent performing his brand new single, "Get Up", off his fourth major label album, Before I Self Destruct. Accompanying his performance would be exclusive video and choreography from his game, 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand.

Also to be honored in the Awards Night is Sims and Spore creator Will Wright, with the Gamer God award for his groundbreaking achievements in the industry.

You'd also want to catch Spike TV's presentatino of TNA: iMPACT! with GameTrailers TV host Goeff Keighley tonight at 9:00PM. The additional categories and breaking news for the VGA will be announced live at 10:15PM.

Here are the nominees for this year's Spike TV Video Game Awards:

GAME OF THE YEAR

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="2">Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games/ Rockstar North) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="1">LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment/ Media Molecule) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="2">Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks/ Bethesda Game Studios) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="3">Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc/ Kojima Productions)
• Gears of War 2 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Epic Games)

BEST HANDHELD GAME

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Konami) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="1">Patapon (Sony Computer Entertainment/ Pyramid) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo/ Level-5)
• God of War: Chains of Olympus (Sony Computer Entertainment/ Ready at Dawn Studios)

BEST PS3 GAME

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Grant Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games/ Rockstar North) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment/ Media Molecule) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="1">Resistance 2 (Sony Computer Entertainment/ Insomniac Games)
• [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Metal [COLOR=blue! important]Gear [/color][COLOR=blue! important]Solid [/color][COLOR=blue! important]4[/color][/color][/color]: Guns of the Patriots (Konami)

BEST XBOX 360 GAME

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="1">Fallout 3 (Bethesda Sotworks/ Bethesda Game Studios) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games/ Rockstar North) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Gears oF War 2 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Epic Games)
• Fable 2 (Microsoft Game Studios/ Lionhead)

BEST WII GAME

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="1">Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="1">No More Heroes (Ubisoft/ Grasshopper Manufacture) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Wii Fit (Nintendo)
• Boom Blox (Electronic [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Arts[/color][/color]/ EA Casual Studios)

STUDIO OF THE YEAR

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Media Molecule <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Rockstar North <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Harmonix
• Bethesda Game Studios

BEST MUSIC GAME

• <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Rock Band 2 (MTV Games/ Harmonix) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Guitar Hero World Tour (RedOctane/ Activision Publishing/ Neversoft Entertainment) <LI oN30g="0" yj_6T="0">Wii Music (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
• SingStar (Sony Computer Entertainment/ SCE Studios London)

For the full list and more breaking news on the upcoming VGA, click on the source link below. You should head straight to the official Spike TV VGA page.