Spike TV Video Game Award

The 2005 awards had also received criticism for having nominations for Peter Jackson's "" and "" (the latter of which was nominated for game of the year, despite being panned by critics and gamers alike). Both games had just been released when the special had aired, but after the filming, citing the possibility that the show was merely used as an advertising campaign for both games. The same could likely go for letting the "TNA iMPACT!" video game having a sneak peak at the awards, and possibly not letting WWE video games get nominated, since "TNA iMPACT!" is a Spike show, in hopes of avoiding more competition.