Bethesda Softworks’ sword-and-sorcery themed adventure Oblivion :Elder Scrolls IV took home the honours at the Spike TV Videogame awards in Los Angeles on Saturday. The game won five awards in total, including Game of the Year, Best RPG, and Most Addictive.Gears of War also did well, picking up four awards including Best Shooter, Best Multiplayer Game and Best Graphics, and earning its creator, Epic Games, the title “Studio of the Year.”

Nintendo wasn’t left out. The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess won the Critics’ Choice award. New Super Mario Brothers was named the best handheld game and the Wii won an award for “Breakthrough Technology.”

The full list of winners can be consulted here.

Hosted by Mr. Cool himself, Samuel Jackson, the awards are due to be televised on Wednesday 12^th.

The opening cinematic sequence from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade, was premiered at the awards and will be seen officially for the first time on Spike TV on Wednesday along with the rest of the event. Some enterprising soul who attended the ceremony happened to have a video cam with him, however, and managed to ninja (in WOW parlance) some not bad footage of the Burning Crusade movie. He has put it up on YouTube for us all to marvel at.