The Sport Awards returns on December 8 from the Microsoft Theater in LA

In a nutshell: The ninth installment of The Recreation Awards will consider position on December 8 and stream stay all over the earth from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. December feels like a long time away but the good news is, there is certainly a lot of gaming-associated goodness to hold our interest right until then.

The once-a-year video recreation awards ceremony debuted in 2014 after gaming journalist Geoff Keighley parted methods with Spike. The network experienced hosted a online video sport awards exhibit per year from 2003 to 2013 that Keighley had been a section of, but the business prepared to scale again functions for 2014 by transferring the demonstrate from broadcast tv to streaming only.

" We have a date! "

THE Match AWARDS
Thursday, December 8

Streaming dwell all around the earth from Microsoft Theater in LA.

Hard to believe this is our NINTH present.

We have been functioning all year to provide you a thing pretty distinctive. pic.twitter.com/VS9qOhyltQ

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 22, 2022

Keighley branched out and with the blessing of Spike, he designed The Recreation Awards. The 1st display was hosted at The Axis at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas but considering that then, the ceremony has taken put at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The one particular exception was in 2020 when the present was hosted almost due to the pandemic.

The spotlight each individual yr is the coveted Video game of the 12 months award, and there generally would seem to be a bit of controversy encompassing the winner or one more video game that was arguably much more deserving. This sort of was the circumstance previous yr with It Requires Two beat out Deathloop, Resident Evil Village and Psychonauts 2 for the top honor.

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Gamescom 2022 kicks off tomorrow and operates via August 28 in Cologne, Germany. Keighley will host a two-hour showcase for Gamescom setting up these days at 2 p.m. Eastern, with the guarantee of entire world premieres, new activity announcements and much more.

PAX West is just all-around the corner as well, jogging from September 2-5 in Seattle, and the Tokyo Video game Present will kick off 10 days later on on September 15. BlizzCon has traditionally been held in November but isn't really getting spot this calendar year as Blizzard claimed it needs time to "reimagine" the function. The organization will use the dollars it will save by not web hosting the exhibit to assist its team and keep on recreation advancement.