Major awards shows are rarely referred to by their official names. Most people know the Academy Awards simply as the “Oscars.” The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Broadway Theater are, luckily for theatre critics, the "Tonys.” Even the Emmy Awards get shortened to “Emmys.” But for more than a decade now, The Game Awards has been known only as… The Game Awards. When will “gaming’s biggest night” earn its colloquialism?

And better yet, what should the show be called? Because “The TGAs” has big “ATM machine” energy.

Since its 2014 premiere, The Game Awards has been referred to as the video game industry’s closest approximation to a pinnacle achievement like the Oscars (though many observers have poked, and will no doubt continue to poke, fair holes in that comparison). Hosted each year by games-journalist-turned-producer Geoff Keighley, The Game Awards are an evolution of sorts of the Spike Video Game Awards, or VGAs, a program that........

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