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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.
Various in-game elements were recognised with awards. Trevor was named Best Character for the Official Xbox Magazine 's Game of the Year Awards 2013, [166] while Lamar Davis won the Best New Character award from Giant Bomb. [167] The music received awards from Spike VGX, [157] Hardcore Gamer [168] and The Daily Telegraph. [169]
The game was officially announced on December 10, 2011, [1] and was nominated for Most Anticipated Game at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. [2] Following its previews at E3 2012 , the game won five awards at the Game Critics Awards , including Best of Show, [ 3 ] which it also won from several gaming publications .
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. [27] On March 4, 2014, Uncharted lead writer Amy Hennig left the studio, [ 28 ] with Uncharted 3 director Justin Richmond and The Last of Us lead artist Nate Wells leaving soon after.
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.
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