Like it or not, Spike TV's annual telecast of the Video Game Awards is the highest profile award ceremony that the games industry has. Today the cable TV network revealed the nominees for the 2009 edition of the awards with the winners, as voted by the fans on the show's official web site, to be named as part of their live ceremony on Saturday, December 12.

The "Best PC Game" category has four choices this year; EA's people sim sequel The Sims 3, BioWare's RPG Dragon Age: Origins, Valve's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 and . . . Popcap's casual tower defense game Plants vs Zombies which we think is a good if somewhat out of the box choice. Left 4 Dead 2 is also one of the nominees for Game of the Year along with other games released for the PC like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Modern Warfare 2. Assassin's Creed 2 was also nominated in that category but won't be released for the PC until 2010. You can check out all the nominees in the various categories and vote for your picks now (and by the way, we were scratching our heads about Borderlands being put into the "Best RPG" category, too).