Game Awards: what is it?

The Game Awards is a ceremony annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the industry of video game. Created in 2014, theepisode is produced and hosted by journalist Geoff Keighley, who for over a decade has reported on previous events, Spike Video Game Awards. In addition to awards, Game Awards also present a preview of new video games and in-depth reviews of previously announced games.

History of Game Awards

In 1994, Canadian journalist Geoff Keighley took part in the first televised awards ceremony for video games, Cybermania ’94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards. As a teenager, Geoff Keighley took part in writing texts for animators. The show was not considered a success, aiming more for comedy than actual celebration, but it inspired him to pursue and develop similar concepts, approaching Oscar night for video games.

Keighley then worked on the Spike Video Game Awards (VGA), which ran from 2003 to 2013. The show aired on Spike TV towards the end of each year and was intended to reward video games released during the year. Keighley was the producer and often the host. While the network showed its support in 2012 by bringing in Samuel L. Jackson to host it, Keighley considered that Spike TV was less interested in the 2013 show.

Spike chose to rename the VGA rewards to VGX to reflect his desire to focus more on new games introduced by the arrival of the eighth generation of consoles at the time (PS4 and Xbox One), and to appeal to the comedian Joel McHale to co-host the show alongside Keighley. Additionally, the show was scaled down to an hour-long presentation that first aired online before airing on TV.

The Game Awards at the Microsoft Theater

The 2013 iteration was considered disappointing, and Keighley was disappointed with the change in tone. Spike offered to continue the show in 2014, but limiting the channels of diffusion to streaming media rather than broadcast. Keighley chose to withdraw from any future involvement with the VGX. In November 2014, Spike TV announced that it had chosen to drop the awards show in its entirety.

Keighley has worked with several big names in the industry, including console hardware manufacturers sony, Microsoft and nintendoand several major publishers, to financially support and create a new awards show, the Game Awards, having previously obtained permission from Spike TV. He invested around $1 million of his own money to launch the new show, and secured space at the Axis Theater in Las. vegas to host the live event.

Without a broadcaster, Keighley and the other producers agreed to broadcast the ceremony live on console networks and on Valve’s Steam service so they could reach a much larger audience than Spike TV had previously. Since the 2014 show, Keighley has managed to get the Microsoft Larger Los Angeles Theater to host the event. He worked to partner with multiple streaming services around the world for the ceremony. Since its inception, Keighley has been approached by broadcast networks offering to program the ceremony, but he turned down those offers, wishing to retain freedom over the presentation and design of the event. The 2019 ceremony included a simulcast in partnership with Sony Pictures for select Cinemark theaters across the United States.