The Game Awards
The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry. Established in 2014, the shows are produced and hosted by Canadian games journalist Geoff Keighley. The 2014 show was broadcast on Spike TV near the end of each calendar year, and was designed to honor video games released during that year.
About The Game Awards in brief
The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry. In addition to the awards, The Game Awards also feature premieres of new games and in-depth looks at previously announced ones. Established in 2014, the shows are produced and hosted by Canadian games journalist Geoff Keighley who worked on its predecessor, the Spike Video Game Awards, for over ten years. The 2019 show included a simulcast in partnership with Sony Pictures for select Cinemark movie theaters throughout the United States. The Game awards 2020 was not held in a live theater due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was instead hosted virtually. The awards are aimed to favorably present the interest of gamers and the industry at large, as well as being welcoming to celebrities and others that have shown interest in video games. The show is also intended to bring new games into the balance of material used for the Game Choice Awards and the Game Awards.
Through the Spike VGX, Keighly has engaged with studios to bring the new games alongside the awards. He considers crowning moment of this approach to be being able to secure the first reveal of gameplay of The Legend of The Zelda: Breath of the Wild at The Game Award 2014. He also encourages the studios to provide the selection of games and trailers that can pique interest, even if these games are at an early stage of development, and then feature them on the show. The 2014 show was broadcast on Spike TV near the end of each calendar year, and was designed to honor video games released during that year. In November 2014, Spike TV announced that they had opted to drop the awards show in its entirety.
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