{"id":151393,"date":"2022-12-08T03:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-game-awards-founder-geoff-keighley-wants-it-to-be-as-big-as-the-grammys-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T03:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:28:07","slug":"the-game-awards-founder-geoff-keighley-wants-it-to-be-as-big-as-the-grammys-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-game-awards-founder-geoff-keighley-wants-it-to-be-as-big-as-the-grammys-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game Awards founder Geoff Keighley wants it to be as big as the Grammys : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For movies, there are the Oscars. For music, the Grammys. For television, the Emmys. And for video games, The Game Awards.<\/p>\n

They’re the brainchild of Geoff Keighley, a video game journalist and television presenter. He got his start as a young teen in Canada, writing articles about games online. He also wrote for Cybermania ’94, the first televised awards show for video and computer games, and attended the event at Universal Studios Hollywood.<\/p>\n

“It made such an impression on me to be in this room where people were celebrating video games and everybody coming together to celebrate this thing that I had really just loved in my bedroom at home in Canada.”<\/p>\n

The experience would plant the seed for The Game Awards.<\/p>\n

“I’ve really been on this 30-year journey since then to try and create something that celebrates games in the right way,” he said. “They are the biggest, most powerful form of entertainment in the world.”<\/p>\n

He spoke with NPR about the video games that defined 2022, the changing industry and his hopes for the future of The Game Awards.<\/p>\n