Geoff Keighley
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Geoff Keighley (born June 24, 1979) is a Canadian video game journalist and television presenter.
He was most known for hosting the video game show GameTrailers TV, and for co-hosting the now-defunct G4tv.com.
Keighley is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Kotaku, among other publications.
Keighley was the executive producer of the Spike Video Game Awards, and has served as the executive producer and host of The Game Awards since its inaugural show in 2014.
He has also hosted the E3 Coliseum event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Career
The introduction of Keighley's video game reporting and presentation had begun through Cybermania '94: The first video game awards show broadcast on television. Keighley was fourteen years old at the time, but he was hired to help write lines for the celebrity hosts to read. The performance was not considered to be commercial and aimed more at comedy than celebration, but from it, Keighley was inspired to create some sort of Academy Awards for video games in his career.
Keighley has been involved in several other television game-related projects in addition to GT.TV. He appeared on Comcast's G4 network as the network's lead anchor for its E3 press conference coverage, interviewing CEOs from companies such as Sony and Electronic Arts. He created the concept and produced "Gears of War: Race to E3" and "Gears of War: Race to Launch," two specials that took viewers inside Microsoft's hit Xbox 360 game development. And in 2007, the Discovery Channel broadcast a five-hour documentary on launches, including those of World of Wonder Productions, based on a strategy by Keighley, who also worked as a consultant producer. "Madden NFL 08 Kickoff" starring Ozzy Osbourne and "Halo 3: Launched," Geoff has hosted and coproduced a number of Spike TV video game launch specials, including "Madden NFL 08 Kickoff" featuring a live broadcast. Linkin Park's appearance at the Festival was a hit. He was also interviewed on what became a controversial Fox News segment on Mass Effect, and gamers praised him later for being the only one on the show to have actually played the game.
The producers of Spike's Video Game Awards program had invited Keighley to assist with the programming from 2006 to 2013. Spike updated the show's layout and rebranded the awards as the VGX Awards in 2013. The presentation to Keighley became more commercial and marketing rather than a game award, and the show was then cancelled. He funded his own efforts to put together a new awards show throughout 2014, winning the support of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, as well as major newspapers and industry executives. Keighley's then established The Game Awards, which were first launched in December 2014 and in which Keighley remains the primary host.
Keighley is known for writing research and previews, as well as going behind the scenes of the game industry for in-depth company profiles and long feature articles. Keighley, who was initially a GameSpot writer, wrote the column "Behind the Games." As the game is nearing completion, this column evolved into a series of articles titled "The Final Hours," where he has in-depth access to the various studios near the end of a development cycle and write in-depth about the process. These articles have appeared as smartphone apps in recent years. In a Jace Hall Show interview in July 2008, Keighley discussed the importance of this process, saying, "There's such a shortage of investigative journalism." I wish I had more time to do more, sort of an investigation. I'm really digging into some of these big questions, so I could take a look at the 'Red Ring of Death' problem. That's never really been reported about, as compared to what really happens." However, he has been chastised for his ability to consistently deliver exclusives, regardless of their actual quality, and for accepting industry PR at its highest level. Keighley was selected as a judge for the Viveport Developer Awards in December 2016.
Keighley had been a participant of E3, the annual video game trade show, since its inception, and Keighley's E3 Coliseum, a live streamed event on E3 that brought in developers and publishers for interviews and other discussions, began in E3 in 2017. However, Keighley said he would not be organising an E3 Collegium exhibition nor attending the show for the first time in 25 years, despite the Entertainment Software Association making significant changes to the E3 2020 (prior to its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Keighley co-sponsored the first Summer Game Fest, which took place from May to August 2020, in honor of E3's demise among other trade shows and events, including Gamescom from the pandemic. Keighley, along with Steam and Xbox to produce game demos during this period, helped developers and publishers during this period. The Summer Games Fest in 2021 and 2022 was held as a virtual event with plans to expand to an in-person event in 2023, which will take place in direct competition with E3.