The British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honoring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry.
The inaugural ceremony took place in 1984 in London's Berkeley Square.
[146] The New York Videogame Critics Circle hosts an annual award show that recognizes the best contributions to the video game industry from the previous year.
[156] 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.
Host and producer Geoff Keighley created The Game Awards in 2014.
[183] During their earlier years of publication they would give awards for the best game on each console available at the time, occasionally giving an award to the overall best game of the year.