Video Game Awards

The first VGA to be hosted by Spike TV, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The 2004 VGAs, held in Santa Monica, California at the Barker Hangar.

The 2005 VGAs, held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.

The 2006 VGAs, held at the Galen Center in Los Angeles.

The 2007 VGAs held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

The 2008 VGAs held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City.

The 2009 VGAs held at the Nokia Event Deck in Los Angeles, California

The 2010 VGAs were held Saturday, December 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA at the L.A. Convention Center and returned to using a host which was Neil Patrick Harris. Unlike previous years, all the awards were not awarded during the show. The 2010 VGAs were the world's biggest global gaming event broadcasted in over 175 territories worldwide.

The 2011 VGAs held in Los Angeles, California.

The 2012 VGAs (promoted as VGA 10 for the tenth anniversary) was held on December 7, 2012 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, CA. Samuel L. Jackson returned to host for a fourth time.

The 2013 awards, the final awards show, was rebranded as VGX and held on December 7, 2013, and was hosted by Joel McHale. The show featured a different format from previous years. It featured extended demos of next-generation games, one-on-one interviews, and "a more intimate studio setting." Rather than airing live on Spike TV, the show was livestreamed online on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Twitch, Steam, iOS, and Android devices, as well as on GameTrailers.com and the websites of Spike, Comedy Central, MTV, MTV2, and BET. As with previous years, the show featured exclusive world premieres of game demos and trailers. The 2013 VGX premieres included Telltale Games' and Gearbox Software's collaboration Tales From the Borderlands, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (an Xbox One and PlayStation 4 port with graphical updates and all DLC included), Remedy Entertainment's Agents of Storm for iOS, Telltale Games' Game of Thrones, and independent developer Hello Games' No Man's Sky. The 2013 show also featured reveals of Titanfall, Thief, Quantum Break, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Broken Age, Dying Light, Tom Clancy's The Division, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime demoed an upcoming Wii U game, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and Rockstar Games worked with the production team to produce a musical performance of the music of Grand Theft Auto V.