The Game Awards 2018: 7 Ups & 6 Downs

The Game Awards is done and dusted for another year, and though the show's still working through some awkward growing pains, you have to give credit to creator Geoff Keighley for his sheer passion for the industry and his desire to create "The Oscars of video games."

The show's still got a way to go before it can stake that claim, but it's nevertheless come a long way from the days of the VGAs, which felt more like a cheeseball variety show than a genuine celebration of the industry.

This year's Game Awards was certainly a mixed bag all the same, rewarding some of the year's very best games while also serving up a sizeable order of the expected cringe and usual awards show excessiveness.

Hopefully Keighley can at least learn from what didn't quite work this time, because he's clearly got huge industry support and the show is being taken seriously enough by the mainstream media.

If he can get a handle on the tone of the ceremony and make it feel a little less like an advertising opportunity, he could be onto something truly special here...