So I watched the Spike Video Game Awards on Sunday and I must say after being really disappointed with last year’s award with Samuel L Jackson I think this year the awards were really good. The awards seemed to be structured differently, as most of the show was about premiering new games than actually presenting awards (which was kind of fun) Jack Black was a very good host and of course, because he’s the main star of Brutal Legend, it got a really good promotion. Here he introduces my favorite game designer Tim Schafer to the crowd, as well as the Brutal Legend trailer:

So what happened this week was Brutal Legend finally got a publisher (EA) after being canned by it’s previous one (Activision), so it’s set to go out in Fall 2009. Another thing that I found was interesting is Jack Black was involved in the creative process of Brutal Legend and co-produces/designs the game with Tim! That means that it will probably have a very distinct Tenacious D feel to it.

Not gonna lie, I’m pretty stoked.