While SpikeTV should be commended for getting Snoop Dogg, an actual gamer, to host their next awards show, this statement in the press release just rubbed me the wrong way:

“Snoop is an icon and the perfect example of how Hollywood and the music industry have embraced the video game genre and catapulted it into pop culture,” says Casey Patterson, Co-Executive Producer of Spike TV’s VIDEO GAME AWARDS.

WTF Casey? We certainly cannot deny a growing convergence of media/mediums, but to say that games became part of pop culture thanks to Hollywood and the music biz is laughable.

Another joke? SpikeTV’s awards… Ha, ha, ha, ha…