List of Game of the Year awards

List of Game of the Year awards

Game of the Year is an award given by various award events and media publications to a video game that they feel represented the pinnacle of gaming that year. The winners of the Spike Video Game Awards, hosted by Spike between 2003 and 2013, awarded the Game of the year using an advisory council featuring over 20 journalists from media outlets.

About List of Game of the Year awards in brief

Summary List of Game of the Year awardsGame of the Year is an award given by various award events and media publications to a video game that they feel represented the pinnacle of gaming that year. The Arcade Awards, also known as the Arkie Awards, was one of the first video game awards, dating back to the golden age of arcade video games and lasting up until the video game crash of 1983. The winners of the Spike Video Game Awards, hosted by Spike between 2003 and 2013, awarded the Game of the year using an advisory council featuring over 20 journalists from media outlets.

The Golden Joystick Awards is the second oldest gaming award ceremony and is the longest-running video game award. Starting in 2012, the editors of Ars Technica have published their top 20 games for each year. In 2017, they retroactively awarded a GOTY award for each past year that did not have an overall best game. Awards from 1998–2001 were split between console and PC. GamesRadar+ holds a Platinum Chalice Awards feature each year, as part of that, the Game Of the Year chosen by its editors.