This year's Game Awards ceremony garnered a lot of justified criticism for the way it rushed winning developers off stage in favour of adverts, rambling conversations with Hideo Kojima, and celebrity cameos from the likes of Timothée Chalamet.
Developers are wanting more than The Game Awards are delivering
12.12.2023 - 17:27 / theverge.com / Matthew Macconaughey / Anthony Mackie / Geoff Keighley
Game developers have a problem with this year’s Game Awards.
While the awards part of Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards has increasingly become vestigial to the ads, teases, and trailers for games both out and coming soon, this year, that disparity was more keenly felt.
“Every year, [The Game Awards] seems to be becoming more and more a platform for revenue for its production house rather than a celebration of game development,” said Nazih Fares, head of communication and localization at The 4 Winds Entertainment and member of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) board of directors, in a statement to The Verge.
“The speed-running through awards was flat out insulting, and only giving the actual devs 30 seconds to speak while prioritizing Hollywood actors being on stage was so gross,” Kayla Glover, a game producer at Bungie, told The Verge.
The Game Awards isn’t the only video game award show in existence; it’s not even the video game equivalent of the Oscars or the Emmys. That distinction arguably belongs to the DICE Awards, which is organized by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, a nonprofit professional organization analogous to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) or the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) — the professional academies that oversee the Oscars and the Emmys, respectively.
There are also the BAFTA Games Awards, the Golden Joystick Awards, the Game Developers Choice awards, and a host of smaller, regionally focused award shows.
But The Game Awards eclipses all of these shows by several orders of magnitude.
This year’s VOD has already racked 6.5 million views since its December 7th premiere. In contrast, the 26th annual DICE Awards VOD, posted in February of this year, sits at about 2,800 views. Basically, The Game Awards has all the prestige and viewership numbers of the Oscars and Emmys despite being the purview of one man: Geoff Keighley.
It began over 20 years ago as the Spike TV Video Game Awards, or VGAs. The show was produced by Geoff Keighley — host of GameTrailers TV a video game show on the Spike TV network — and was aesthetically, “what if the MTV Video Music Awards but video games?”
And it’s never really lost those roots as an award show meant to entertain first and award prestige second. Only increasingly, the developers and other talent the show is meant to praise would like to share some of the stage rather than be totally overshadowed by Muppets.
This year’s Game Awards featured a bunch of celebrity appearances, including Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Mackie, Simu Liu, Timothée Chalamet, and the muppet Gonzo. Viewers noticed the preponderance of time given to celebrities, interviews, and comedy bits, while awards were
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