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Spike's only Video Game Hall of Fame award, given to The Legend of Zelda, was awarded at the 2011 awards show. [1] 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]
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 Category lists winners of the Spike Video Game Awards regardless of it's game, person, company, etc. The Spike Video Game Awards were a predecessor of The Game Awards . Subcategories
Through the Spike VGX and into the Game Awards, Keighley has engaged with games studios to bring reveals of new games alongside the awards. He considers the crowning moment of this approach was being able to secure the first gameplay reveal of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at the Game Awards 2014. [14]
On December 7, 2013, during the first edition of Spike's VGX award show, Naughty Dog won the Studio of the Year award for its work on The Last of Us. [28] On March 4, 2014, Uncharted lead writer Amy Hennig left the studio, [29] with Uncharted 3 director Justin Richmond and The Last of Us lead artist Nate Wells leaving soon after.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons won the award for Best Xbox Game at the 2013 VGX Award Show (formerly Spike Video Game Awards; VGAs), in competition with Grand Theft Auto V, BioShock Infinite, and Tomb Raider. [31] It also won the Best Game Innovation Award at 2014's British Academy Games Awards (BAFTA). [32]
Gears of War 2 is a third-person shooter with an emphasis on the tactical use of cover, and retains much of the same gameplay from the first game.The player, playing as either Marcus or Dominic in the campaign mode, or as any of the human or Locust characters in multiplayer mode, can only carry a pistol, one type of grenade, and two other weapons at any time, though they may swap these for ...
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag has received Game of the Year nominations from media outlets GameSpot [83] and the Inside Gaming Awards, [84] It won the Spike VGX 2013 award for Best Action Adventure Game, [85] and the GameSpot awards for PS4 Game of the Year and Xbox One Game of the Year. [86] [87]