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This is a draft page for The Game Awards. Feel free to edit the page to include additional entries, fix typos, etc.

The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley in December celebrating the video game industry itself that is held every December. It is the successor to the Spike Video Game Awards (the VGX in its final year), which Keighley also hosted.

With two exceptions, the awards ceremonies are held at the Peacock Theaternote  in Los Angeles. The two exceptions are the inaugural ceremony in 2014, which was held at The AXIS (today Zappos Theater) in Las Vegas, and 2020, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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  • Awesome Music — "Best Score and Music" gives an award related to this
  • The Muppets have shown up in-character to present awards, except in the 2021 show.

Awards and ceremonies by year:

Dates in parentheses denote when that year's ceremony was held.

2014 (December 5; Bakkt Theaternote , Las Vegas, NV)

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2015 (December 3)

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2016 (December 1)

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2017 (December 7)

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2018 (December 6)

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2019 (December 12)

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2020 (December 10; Los Angelesnote )

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2021 (December 9)

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2022 (December 8)

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  • Prior to the ceremony, Kotaku's Alyssa Mercante called out the poor fashion that attendees wore at previous ceremonies. Her article led to several attendees start taking their looks seriously, improving the show's fashion sense in the process.
  • Christopher Judge gave an emotional eight-minute long speech for his Best Performance win, which was the first award given on-stage that night.
  • Musician Pedro Eustache's very enthusiastic musical performance during the Game of the Year medley, which saw him play multiple wind instruments throughout, became memetic, with online viewers nicknaming him "Flute Guy".
  • The end of the ceremony became infamous when a 15-year-old prankster named Matan Even snuck onto the stage with the FromSoftware crew when they won the Game of the Year award, then after Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki gave his speech and the walk-off music began playing, Even made a brief yet bizarre speech saying, "I want to thank everybody and say I think I want to nominate this award to my Reformed Orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton."note  Although it happened at the end of the ceremony and Even was escorted by security, the interruption overshadowed the show itself.

2023 (December 7)

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  • This year's ceremony quickly ended up being one of the most roundly criticized ceremonies in the show's history, particularly towards its rushing of award winners' speeches (after Christopher Judge's eight-minute long speech the previous year) with "wrap-it-up" music playing after just 30 seconds and too much time dedicated towards announcements and celebrities. One particularly criticized instance regarding this was Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele being given at least six minutes to discuss their newly-announced and very early into production game OD, whereas according to The Escapist's Liam Nolan, the total amount of time overall that the award winners gave their speeches was less than 11 minutes. For his part, Keighley posted on Twitter / X the following the day that he agreed with this criticism, saying that he did try to tell the production crew to ease up on the strict enforcing of the time limit and said that he will address this at future ceremonies.
  • Speaking of Judge, several Call of Duty developers criticized his joke where he claims that his 2022 speech was longer than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's single-player campaign.
  • The ceremony was also criticized for what it did not do, namely acknowledging the massive amount of developer layoffs that occurred throughout the industry during 2023 as profits plateaued after the sales boost resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic worn off and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, despite the Game Awards' Future Class recipients past and present sending an open letter to Geoff Keighley to acknowledge the latter.
  • The few positives the ceremony did receive was the musical performances. European folk music group Heilung performed "Seidh" from the upcoming Senuas Saga Hellblade II, American singer Loren Allred performed "No Promises to Keep" from the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with the Game Awards Orchestra (again conducted by Lorne Balfe), and Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall performed "Herald of Darkness" from Alan Wake II under the guise of their Fake Band the Old Gods of Asgard and were joined by David Harewood (who portrayed Mr. Door in the game), Matthew Porretta (Alan Wake's voice), Ilkka Villi (Wake's model), and even the game's director Sam Lake. And of course, "Flute Guy" Pedro Eustache was brought back to join the Game Awards Orchestra and was again energetically performing and switching between different flutes during the Game of the Year Medley, even using a big double contrabass flute at the end.

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