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The Spike Video Game Awards (in short VGAs, known as the VGX for the final show) was an annual award show hosted by American television network Spike from 2003 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year.
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.
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]
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]
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
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]
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.
The ceremony was the first for The Game Awards, which replaced the Keighley-hosted Spike Video Game Awards (VGX in 2013) that were discontinued after the 2013 show. Dragon Age: Inquisition won the shows's Game of the Year award.