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Goodbye VGX, hello The Game Awards

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The game awards

There are so many opportunities for games to nab awards. Beyond the typical E3 and Gamescom nominations, plenty of other award ceremonies also honor those games that have done something rather well. Now there will be another one, and it will probably be pretty cool.

Geoff Keighley, gaming presenter extraordinaire, is launching a new awards show, The Game Awards. Before you dismiss this one, you should know that he has support from some of the biggest names in gaming. Just check out these members of the advisory board:

  • Reggie Fils-Aime (Nintendo of America)
  • Yves Guillemot (Ubisoft)
  • Hideo Kojima (Konami)
  • Shawn Layden (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  • Peter Moore (EA COO)
  • Phil Spencer (Xbox)
  • Martin Tremblay (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Keighley also got Rockstar and Valve involved. In fact, the awards won’t just air on one network:

It will be distributed via a digital pool that includes Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo and Valve’s Steam, which has over 100 million worldwide users on its own.

Streaming across all gaming systems and devices? Now that is how you engage with a whole lot more gamers. Well done, Keighley. Built as a direct challenge to Spike’s VGX, The Video Game Awards will take place at the Axis Theater in Las Vegas on 5 December. It could even signal the end of spike’s video game awards completely. Will it become the new most relevant award ceremony? Who knows, but at with that kind of backing, I’m sure it will at least be a whole lot of fun to watch. you know, except for the crude and dismissive humour.

This just reminds me that it’s almost time for us to pick our winners for the year. Plus, we’re going to be getting all of you involved, too. So be sure to keep an eye out when we start voting – you can pick your favorite games of the year, too. Then we can all fight it out when you don’t give my favorites games the best awards for the year.

Last Updated: November 11, 2014

24 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    November 11, 2014 at 09:02

    How can you tell Zoe, don’t all Geoffs look the same?

    Reply

    • Admiral Chief Wang

      November 11, 2014 at 09:08

      GEOFFIST!

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 11, 2014 at 09:45

        Are you sure you don’t want to rethink that word? Geoff & Fist?

        Reply

        • Admiral Chief Wang

          November 11, 2014 at 09:52

          What Geoff does with his fist is no business of ours dude

          Reply

  2. Admiral Chief Wang

    November 11, 2014 at 09:08

    • Skyblue

      November 12, 2014 at 09:29

      That dude can be such a douche. I really felt for him after watching Indie Game: The movie but he has since destroyed any sympathy I had for him. I think he has severe OCD though and seems to have a self destructive personality.

      Reply

  3. Cadis Etrama Di Umar

    November 11, 2014 at 09:20

    As long as it was better than this kak

    Reply

    • Admiral Chief Wang

      November 11, 2014 at 09:27

      Ek laaaaik dit as jy in my taal stout praat

      Reply

    • OVG

      November 11, 2014 at 09:30

      Double edged sword.

      We always wanted social recognition for our hobby. Now that its overtaken Movies and music the money has been doing the Talking.

      These awards are for drawing in new consumers. Gamers should already know their their shit.

      Reply

      • Cadis Etrama Di Umar

        November 11, 2014 at 10:01

        I dont want a new crowd if it draws in idiots lol

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        • OVG

          November 11, 2014 at 10:05

          It worked for the Wii…

          Runs

          Reply

    • ToshZA

      November 11, 2014 at 09:37

      My IQ just dropped 50 points… O_O

      Reply

    • Weanerdog

      November 11, 2014 at 10:01

      It would take something very very ‘special’ to be worse.

      Reply

    • Admiral Chief Wang

      November 11, 2014 at 10:05

      Dafuq did I just watch???

      Reply

  4. OVG

    November 11, 2014 at 09:26

    They should call it,

    “THE PATCH OF THE YEAR AWARDS”

    Reply

    • Admiral Chief Wang

      November 11, 2014 at 09:27

      YEEEEEAAAAAAAAH

      Reply

      • OVG

        November 11, 2014 at 09:31

        AND… THE BIGGEST SOCIALLY ACCEPTED PATCH GOES TO….

        SKYRIM 🙂

        For its 3 years (TODAY) of public BETA on the PS3.

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        • Admiral Chief Wang

          November 11, 2014 at 09:44

          Pffff, Skyrim is majestic….on PC

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          • OVG

            November 11, 2014 at 10:06

            The consoles will never reach that level of immersion.

          • Skyblue

            November 11, 2014 at 23:14

            458hrs and counting, completely agree

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