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Geoff Keighley is a Canadian video game journalist and television presenter born on the 24th of June 1978. He is best known as the executive producer and host of the Game Awards, which he founded in 2014, and as the creator of Summer Game Fest.
Keighley established the Game Awards in 2014, with the first ceremony presented in December of that year. He self-funded the initial effort and secured backing from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.
Doritosgate refers to a 2012 incident in which Keighley presented information about Halo 4 while seated beside promotional stands for Mountain Dew and Doritos. Critics mocked the setup as evidence of poor journalism standards, and the episode became an inflection point that accelerated his shift from games journalist to gaming event host.
The Final Hours is a long-form journalism series Keighley developed while pitching to GameSpot during his time at the University of Southern California. The series uses behind-the-scenes access to game studios to document the development process, covering titles including Unreal, Metal Gear Solid 2, Portal, Mass Effect, and Tomb Raider. In more recent years, the pieces were released as mobile apps.
Summer Game Fest is a video game event created by Keighley that launched in 2020 as a response to the cancellation of E3 and other trade shows during the COVID-19 pandemic. It ran from May to August 2020 as a platform for game announcements and demos, in partnership with Steam and Xbox, and expanded to an in-person format in 2023.
Keighley appeared as a holographic character in Death Stranding and had a brief cameo as a game awards presenter in The Matrix Resurrections. A mask of his face was also added to the game Among Us.