The Game Awards 2014 is an award ceremony, which honored the best video game achievements of 2014 and took place at The AXIS in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 5, 2014. The show is produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley.
The Game Awards 2015 is an award ceremony, which honored the best video game achievements of 2015 and took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California on December 3, 2015. The show is produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley.
The Game Awards 2016 took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 1, 2016, and streamed across several video sharing sites, including for the first time to audiences in China. The ceremony honored the best video game achievements of 2016.
The Game Awards 2017 was a video game award ceremony and the fourth incarnation of The Game Awards, honoring the best video games and their achievements of 2017. The event was hosted by Geoff Keighley and held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 7, 2017, and was live streamed around the world.
The Game Awards 2018 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2018. As with previous Game Awards, the event was hosted by Geoff Keighley at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 6, 2018. God of War won three awards, including for game of the year, while Red Dead Redemption 2 won the most overall awards with four. It was live streamed on over 40 platforms worldwide, with 26 million viewers in total. In addition to the awards, several new games were revealed during the event.
The Game Awards 2019 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2019. The event was hosted by Geoff Keighley at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 12, 2019 and livestreamed for free across numerous platforms, as well as being made available in select theaters for the first time. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was awarded Game of the Year, while Disco Elysium received the most awards in total with four. In addition to the awards, several new games were revealed during the event. The show also featured musical performances from Green Day, Grimes, and Chvrches.
The Game Awards 2020 is an upcoming award show that honors the best video games of 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will not be held to a live audience as with previous shows and will instead be hosted virtually by Geoff Keighley on December 10, 2020. The Last of Us Part II received the most nominations with 11.
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The Game Awards 2022 is an upcoming award show that will honor the best video games of 2022. The event will be hosted by Geoff Keighley, creator and producer of The Game Awards, and will be held to an invited audience at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 8, 2022. The preshow ceremony will be hosted by Sydnee Goodman. The event will be live streamed across more than 40 digital platforms, alongside an additional IMAX experience. The show introduced a new Best Adaptation award, for media adapted from video games. God of War Ragnarök leads the show with ten nominations, followed by Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West with seven, Stray with six, and A Plague Tale: Requiem with five, each of which is nominated for Game of the Year alongside Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
The Game Awards 2023 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2023. It was the tenth show hosted by Geoff Keighley, the creator, and producer of The Game Awards. The event took place with a live audience at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, on December 7, 2023, and was also live-streamed globally.