As reported earlier, Tricia Helfer appeared as planned at yesterday’s 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards, held in Los Angeles, CA. As promised, here’s our coverage of her appearance at the event.

As per usual, Tricia looked absolutely stunning(!!) at the event, this time in a peach strapless mini and updo. As most of you will know, Tricia was up for the VG Award for Best Performance by a Human Female for her portrayal of Dare in the Halo 3: ODST video game. She furthermore presented on her own a Halo: Reach teaser trailer at the event. Unfortunately, the winning act in the Human Female category turned out to be Megan Fox in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Bummer.

Onto our gallery update. We’ve just uploaded to our gallery our first 57 medium- and hi-res photos of a lovely Tricia at the event. As always, we’ll be sure to add more medium- and hi-res pictures as well as video footage from the event as we find them. Be sure to check back with us for updates!

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• Appearances in 2009 > 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards on Dec 12

Don’t forget today is your last chance to vote for Tricia Helfer at the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards! Tricia is nominated for Best Performance by a Human Female for her portrayal of Dare in the Halo 3: ODST video game. Voting on the Spike TV VGA website will close today — go vote for Tricia while you still can!

The 2009 Spike TV VG Awards will air live tomorrow, December 12 from Los Angeles, CA via Spike TV. Tricia is a confirmed guest for tomorrow’s event, so don’t forget to check back with us for coverage of her appearance at the event!

Some three weeks ago, we speculated Tricia Helfer could be attending the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards due to her recent portrayal of Dare in the Halo 3: ODST video game, for which Tricia is nominated for Best Performance by a Human Female at the awards. Well, our speculations have today been confirmed by this Spike TV press release via PRNewswire, asserting Tricia is indeed expected to attend the event:

Megastars from the worlds of video games, Hollywood, music, sports and more will gather to pay tribute to the outstanding achievements within the video game industry during the past year at Spike TV’s 7th Annual Video Game Awards 2009. Broadcasting in over 180 territories and countries, the VGAs will be a global celebration of all things gaming as it premieres LIVE on Spike TV Saturday, December 12 at 8:00 PM, ET (tape delay west coast).

Also scheduled to appear at the VGAs are Kristen Bell, Felicia Day, Green Day, Tony Hawk, Tricia Helfer, Forrest Griffin, Alyssa Milano, Zachary Quinto, Mike Tyson, Olivia Wilde and the stars of Spike TV’s forthcoming original comedy series “Blue Mountain State” – Alan Ritchson, Darin Brooks and Chris Romano. Additional guest appearances will be announced shortly.

Fans will be able to vote for Tricia at the VGAs via the Spike TV VGA website until December 11. Don’t forget to tune in for the live broadcast via Spike TV December 12! We’ll of course be sure to cover Tricia’s appearance at the event, so do check back with us for further updates this weekend.

According to the Spike TV website, Tricia Helfer has been nominated for Best Performance by a Human Female for her portrayal of Dare in the Halo 3: ODST video game at the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards! Go vote for her now via the Spike TV VGA website! Voting is open until Friday, December 11.

Although Tricia attending the awards show remains at this point unconfirmed, some will here recall her May 2009(!) appearance on the GameTrailers TV E3 ‘09 First Look Special, where she said to “hope” to be able to attend the event. We hope so too! The 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards will take place on December 12 in Los Angeles, CA.

Hopefully everyone with the means was able to tune in last night to Spike TV’s GameTrailers TV 2009 VGA-E3 First-Look Special, in which “Sci-Fi goddess” Tricia Helfer makes an appearance alongside hosts Geoff Keighley and Rose McGowan. In case you missed it, though, you can check out the full episode in HD over at GameTrailers.com (Tricia’s segment comes in Chapter 3 or at about 22:56 into the 41 minute episode). Screen captures of her appearance have also been made available at our gallery!

During her E3 pre-show appearance, Tricia furthermore exclusively announced her involvement in the upcoming Halo 3: ODST video game as the character Dare! That’s another big video game franchise she has under her belt; congrats, Tricia! She furthermore stated she “hopes” she will be in attendance at the December 12 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, to be held in Los Angeles, CA. The event is still a while off and schedules change, but her potential appearance is worth keeping in mind nonetheless.

• Talk Show & Interview Captures > ‘GameTrailers TV E3 ‘09 First Look Special’ (May 28 2009)