Geoff Keighley is set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards this year, preparing his usual slate of news and awards for a special night. This guide is designed to be your one-stop shop for the show, detailing the dates, times, and any additional information you need for The Game Awards 2024.
When Is The Game Awards 2024?
The Game Awards takes place on the night of Thursday, 12th December 2024, or in the very early hours of the next day depending on your timezone. Here's a full breakdown of the start time worldwide:
- North America: 4:30pm (Thu) PST / 5:30pm (Thu) MST / 6:30pm (Thu) CST / 7:30pm (Thu) EST
- UK/Ire: 12:30am GMT
- Europe: 1:30am CET / 2:30am EET
- Asia/Oceania: 9:30am JST / 8:30am AWST / 11:30am AEDT
How Can You Watch The Game Awards 2024?
The Game Awards will be livestreamed across all the normal online platforms, like YouTube and Twitch. It's completely free, so you do not need to pay. We'll also be hosting the livestream here on Push Square, complete with a live chat for you to talk to other people watching. If you're not able to catch the show live, we'll be covering all the news and awards on the site, so you won't miss a thing.
How Long Will The Game Awards 2024 Be?
A full runtime for the show hasn't been confirmed yet, but in years past, The Game Awards has generally run for roughly 3 hours.
What Are The Game Awards 2024 Nominees?
You can find a complete list of all The Game Awards 2024 nominees through the link, but all the games nominated for Game of the Year are:
- Astro Bot
- Balatro
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
What News and Announcements Will Be at The Game Awards 2024?
With just under two weeks to go until the show, Geoff Keighley hasn't started teasing what sort of announcements he has in store just yet. However, based on previous years, The Game Awards plays host to some big reveals, so it will be worth tuning in this year — particularly as Keighley will likely want to go all out for the 10th anniversary. He'll want to go big for this one.
Did you find our guide covering When Is The Game Awards 2024 useful? Let us know what game reveals you are hoping for in the comments below.
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Really hope SotE doesn't get GotY. It's one of the best expansions to a game I've ever played, but it sets a really bad precedent.
So will this be Friday midnight for those in the UK. I only ask as I have to be up super early on the 12th of Thursday morning
Sorry, I'm confusing myself here too
If Wukong or SoTE win GOTY i'm going to riot, just saying....
Is it usually on so late? (Uk time)
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Yeah because its a US show and they are a good few hours behind us.
@Beerheadgamer82 For UK, it's 12:30 AM on 13/12/24.
A big FU to Europe as always.
Always get crap times for this in europe. Guess I'll just get the highlights in the morning as I expect a snoozfest anyway.
@Oram77 One of those things is not like the other.
One is a full standalone game, one is a paid DLC expansion.
@wildcat_kickz I guarantee you that was the reason for the rule change, i'm afraid.
Don't worry about the precedent though. Prizes by committee are the most meaningless of all prizes as they are just the opinion of a ridiculously small minority as opposed to the overwhelming majority.
@AlecEmpire
Just like the Olympics when its hosted in IDK...France...kind of a big FU to North and South America. Time zones suck.
I’m one of the weirdos who actually watches them for the awards instead of the announcements. In terms of awards, my biggest hope is that they allow every winner to have a speech and have actual gaming industry people present awards instead of random Hollywood and music celebrities. Theres a 0% chance that actually happens so here are some other award hopes instead
-I don’t want Erdtree to win anything. It would be so boring for it to win the exact same 4 awards the base game won
-I don’t want Wukong to win GOTY and especially direction. It feels like the least inspired title out of all the nominees and represents TGA’s insistence on not straying away from blockbuster style titles
-I want Balatro and Animal Well to both win something. Both of those games are great and individually deserve flowers, which is unlikely considering how many tech and genre categories these games can’t contend with
-I don’t want Silent Hill 2 to win narrative. I would be happy with it winning any other award, but the narrative is mainly just the narrative of a 20 year old game.
@LifeGirl Yeah, no doubt. The cynic in me wonders if its inclusion is a form of engagement rage-bait - get people to tune in, just because they're mad it made the cut at all.
That said, the Game Awards are a bit of a joke anyway. Art is a lie. Birds aren't real.
Shadow of the erdtree winning would be both hilarious and incredibly sad. Wu Kong doesn't really deserve to be up there either... Good luck to everything else though!
@Majin_Deicide yup one is a DLC which shouldn't be on the list, and the other is a over hyped boss rush game 8/10 at best (yes I'm aware of the sales figures)
@DennisReynolds yeah thanks. Got it mixed up with the summer one that’s in Germany
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