The Game Awards will be debuting this weekend. While they come off as more of a spiritual successor to the Video Game Awards, which was Spike TV's attempt at an awards show, they're web-based. Due to this, I feel like this might be the best awards show in gaming that we'll have experienced so far, as it's controlled mainly by the game reviewers of the industry. Goeff Keighley, industry bigwig, will be the main man behind the scenes. Though, I guess he'll be in front of the cameras, as well.
It's good to know that just because Spike TV won't be involved, we're still going to have a definitive, year's-end spectacle for video games. A lot of gamers settle their debates about what title deserves Game of the Year by whichever game wins it at these kinds of shows. With that said, hopefully The Game Awards can pick up some the sort of traction that The Video Game Awards held for a number of years.
One speculation that gamers and fans have had is that Fallout 4 will be announced at The Game Awards this weekend. We're sorry to inform that this won't be the case. All the reasoning and guesswork went out the window when Bethesda Softworks, the game's would-be developer, tweeted this earlier today:
