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On November 15, 2013, Spike announced a new format under the name VGX, calling it "The next generation of the VGAs". The last award show, carrying this name, aired on December 7. [ 2 ] Changes from the previous format included "in-depth extended demos of the next generation of games and interactive one-on-one interviews and panels in an ...
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. [170] The show's title was changed to VGX in 2013 before Spike TV dropped the show entirely. Host and producer Geoff Keighley created The Game Awards in 2014.
The following were 2013's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms).
A special Nintendo 3DS XL depicting Xerneas and Yveltal in their Shiny forms was released in North America and Europe on 27 September 2013, and in Japan on 12 October 2013. Japan also received a premium gold version depicting Xerneas on the front, and Yveltal and the three starters on the back with either X or Y pre-installed.
VGX may refer to: Vector graphics, a form of computer graphics; VGX (award show), a video game award show; Virgin Galactic, a spaceflight company
They were named 2013's Character of the Year at the Spike VGX 2013, [11] and by Destructoid staff for their Best of 2013 awards. [12] The Lutece twins were named runners-up for Best New Character as part of Giant Bomb's 2013 Game of the Year Awards, [13] and Best Character for Official Xbox Magazine 's 2013 Awards. [14]
In 2013, Spike changed the format of the show and rebranded the awards as the VGX Awards. To Keighley, the format became more commercial and promotional rather than a celebration of video game achievements, and coupled with the ridicule he faced from Doritosgate in 2012, he opted to leave the show. [6]
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit group with membership made up of developers, artists, and other professional in the video game industry. . They launched the Interactive Achievement Awards in 1998, and in 2002, after establishing the annual D.I.C.E. Summit (D.I.C.E. as a backronym for "Design Innovate Communicate Entertain"), renamed these as the D.I.C.E. Awar