eGames Australia has a lot in store for its gamers this year. Keynote speakers from 2K Games, Insomniac Games, and Nintendo of America are all in the roster along with many treats. Musical performances, game demos, and panel discussions addressing the latest issues are all in store for those who'll be there. Find out more as the people behind BioShock and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction give straightforward answers to game-related questions.

 

2K Games' BioShock is still riding waves of success, being top pick for various gamers around the world. The Swedish are no exception either, for the first-person shooter from 2K Games Boston and Australia steals number one spot for their all platforms chart - well the Xbox 360 version, that is.

It also managed to squeeze through four popular PC, MMO games in the region, which include NCSoft's Guild Wars expansion Eye of the North, Creative Assembly's Medieval II: Total War expansion Kingdoms, and Blizzard Entertainment's two-hit combo - World of Warcraft and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - in that order from second to fifth.

BioShock's Games for Windows version settled into sixth place, while Insomniac Games' Resistance: Fall of Man and Revolution Studios' Motorstorm also found a place in the top ten titles, having grabbed a solid seventh and eighth respectively. 

Counter-Strike 1: Anthology from Valve Software at ninth closed the PC game count to six in PC-dominated charts, while PS2 title Guitar Hero 2: Rock the 80's from RedOctane concluded the top ten games. In essence, Guild Wars: Eye of the North topped the PC list, Resistance: Fall of Man trumped the PS3 list, BioShock rocked the Xbox 360 chart, and Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess was king of the Wii mountain.

In the handheld scene, Nintendo's Pokemon Diamond was favored in the DS list, while WWE Smackdown vs RAW 2007 from THQ crushed competition in the PSP chart. Here's the top ten in the Swedish multi-format charts:

1. Bioshock (360)
2. Guild Wars Eye of the North (PC)
3. Medieval II Total War Kingdoms (PC)
4. World of Warcraft (PC)
5. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
6. Bioshock (PC)
7. Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
8. Motorstorm (PS3)
9. Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (PC)
10. Guitar Hero 2 Rock the 80´s (PS2)

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A lot of players were really hurt when they announced that the E3 was going to be closed to the public. For those who are still harboring a grudge, feel free to skip over this article. For those who are interested though, IGN was recently able to get a hold of a listing of games that will be featured in the said event.

A lot of the companies still haven't announced the games that they will be showcasing in this year's E3. However, quite a few of the big name developers have already announced their offerings. Of course this is still a preliminary list and more will be added as the days go by.

Anyway, here we have the list of companies who will be attending but haven't announced any games yet then the confirmed games that will be showcased in the E3. Now excuse this blogger as he goes to a corner and cry out my frustration at not being able to go this event.

Companies who haven't announced games yet:

• 1C Company
• 2K Games
• Activision
• Atlus Software
• Bethesda Softworks
• Codemasters
• Crave Entertainment
• Eidos Interactive
• Foundation 9 Entertainment
• GSC GameWorld
• id Software
• Konami Digital Entertainment
• Majesco Entertainment
• Microsoft
• Namco Bandai Games
• Natsume
• NCSoft
• Nintendo
• Rebellion
• SEGA
• Sierra Entertainment
• Square Enix
• THQ
• Ubisoft
• Warner Bros. Interactive

Wnat to see the full games list? Check out the full article.

You can decry the Spike TV Video Game Awards show as much as you want, but you can't deny the fact that the Awards is very much supported and some people do think that the award Spike TV gives out has some weight to it.

So who are the big winners this year? Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion managed to nab five awards, so they're pretty much this year's "top dog", much to the dismay of a lot in the crowd.

You see, throughout the night Gears of War and Oblivion was neck and neck until the last award. With each game having four awards each, the only remaining award for the night was the Game of the Year.

The games that got the biggest applause when nominees for the award were announced were Guitar Hero 2 and Gears of War. But as we've said, Oblivion won, and they went home happy. The audience were stunned to say the least. Oh well.

What else happened? Comedienne Sarah Silverman said that gamers "should get an award for their work in AIDS prevention," Tenacious D rocked the house, and the Wii got an award for best breakthrough tech. Oh, and the Critics Choice Award, the only award open for games released after November 7, went to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Get list of the nominees and winners after the Jump!

Samuel Jackson is set to return as the host of Spike TV's fourth annual Video Game Awards. The awards will be taped on December 8 and then will be edited so that viewers won't have to endure all the long boring speeches, the bad jokes at the expense of the visiting celebrities, and the bad onstage performances. The awards will be held at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in LA.

Voting for the show begins today Spike TV's site. Fans can vote in 27 different categories, including Most Addictive Game, Game of the Year and Cyber Vixen of the Year. Voting closes on Thursday, December 7.

Expect Sam to crack another mother-f-in line on the mother-f-in show. The following are the nominees for Spike TV's 2006 Video Game Awards:

CRITIC'S CHOICE
(game to be released after 11/15/2006 & before 12/31/2006)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
Resistance: Fall of Man (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)
Medieval II: Total War (Sega/Creative Assembly)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubisoft Montreal)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD
Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)
Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts/EA Black Box)
TOCA Race Driver 3 (Codemasters)
GTR 2 (10tacle Studios/SimBin Development Team)

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts/ EA Chicago)
Tony Hawk Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft )
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)
Top Spin 2 (2K Sports/Power & Magic)

BEST ACTION GAME
Dead Rising (Capcom)
New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)
Saints Row (THQ/Volition)
Bully (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Vancouver)

See the rest of the nominees after the Jump!