Item! Your roving star watchers at Wired.com hit the red carpet opening of the Interactive Achievements Awards and rubbed shoulders with celebrities!
SNL alum Jay Mohr hosted the festivities! Rumors had it he was on all kinds of drugs! ...Like cough syrup! He was sick with the flu! Get well soon, Jay!
We caught up with Blizzard's Frank Pearce and Mike Morhaime, who took home a giant award statuette for Burning Crusade.
Item! What no-nonsense designer of games that rhyme with Todd Of Gore blew right by Wired on the red carpet and didn't do an interview?
Item! Where was Kutaragi on the carpet? Why so camera-shy, Ken?
More celeb pix after the you-know-what!
Blizzard's Frank Pearce and Mike Morhaime. I asked them about their awesome-looking canceled game Nomad. They didn't quite remember what it was about, but they said this: "We canceled it to make World of Warcraft." Sounds like that worked out quite well!
The team from Call of Duty 4, in what can only be called a stunning upset, took home nods for Game of the Year at the awards. Way to go, guys! Now let's see about making Ragtime Warfare a permanent feature of the series, eh?
Oh my goodness, it's the guys who made BioShock! This was my first time meeting my hero Ken Levine (left), and I made sure to tell him how awesome he and his crew are. (They got robbed!)
Insomniac's Ted Price! He is a good bowler!
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Wow: 1up's Shane Bettenhausen interviews Cliffy B! Internet celebrities collide.
And finally, who is this rakishly handsome devil being interviewed by Shane? Mystery celebrity of the evening shook up the red carpet with his shocking surprise appearance.
We'll be back with DICE day two coverage, so stay tuned! It's game time! [COPYDESK: Please insert more stupid phrases]
