Last year, I complained about the travesty that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards. I gave 55 reasons.

This year, I may only need one, courtesy of Jamie Fristrom who saw the awards live late last week.

So, here’s the thing. This show doesn’t air until December. They were giving awards to games that aren’t even done yet. So who chooses these things? “Your bullshit academy,” as Jack Black put it, accepting an award for a game that isn’t done yet in a prerecorded sequence – I wonder if they’ll leave that in the final cut?

Ye gods. The game Jamie’s talking about is King Kong, which goes on sale today. And while everyone here at the office who has seen it (it’s an Ubi product) has raved about it, it doesn’t bode well for the overall integrity of the awards.