GameSpot's Game of the Year awards to kick off December 9

It's been an astounding year for video games, and GameSpot is about to cap off this impressive year with the official launch of its Game of the Year awards for 2013.

Kicking off on December 9 with a special livestream to announce all of our nominees, GameSpot's Game of the Year awards will tell you our picks for the best titles of the past 12 months. We're handing out awards in each of the major gaming platforms this year, so that means awards for best Vita, Wii U, 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC games. Individual platform awards will be handed out daily from December 10.

GameSpot will also highlight our individual editor's personal choices for games of the year on December 18. Each GameSpot editor will list out their personal top 10s, before we move to the major award unveil--the Game of the Year--on December 19.

Here's the full schedule for GameSpot's Game of the Year program:

December 9: Livestream to announce all nominees (3pm PST, 7pm EST, 11pm GMT)

Dec 10: Vita category winner announced

Dec 11: Wii U category winner announced

Dec 12: 3DS category winner announced

Dec 13: PS3 category winner announced

Dec 14: PS4 category winner announced

Dec 15: Xbox 360 category winner announced

Dec 16: Xbox One category winner announced

Dec 17: PC category winner announced

Dec 18: Editors' Top 10s revealed

Dec 19: Game of the Year announced

You can catch all of our Game of the Year action in our special hub, where we've already started our coverage with our special Road to Game of the Year series.