The hype master himself, Geoff Keighley, has been working hard each year to turn The Game Awards into a huge end-of-year event, and it's reached a point where fans look forward to it as much as anything else. Airing each December, the awards ceremony also acts as a venue in which publishers make all kinds of exciting announcements. By the sound of it, this year's show will be the biggest yet.
A new interview has emerged on Epic Games' website, of all places, and it seems we're in for a pretty enormous showcase. Keighley says he's expecting 40 to 50 games to be present during the runtime "someway or another". That could range from a short promo of something releasing soon through to a trailer for something brand new. Speaking of which, the presenter estimates the number of new game announcements will be somewhere in the double digits, which seems like a lot.
Keighley comments that "pretty much every developer and publisher wants to have some degree of content on the show", so there should be a diverse range of games on display, potentially even from Sony — we can hope. Not one to shy away from getting people amped up, he adds that there will be some exciting next-gen titles that'll show off the power of these new consoles. "I still feel like we've only kind of sort of touched the surface of what's possible on the PS5 and Xbox Series X, so I think you'll see some stuff in the show that is truly pretty stunning,” Keighley teases. “We’ll see footage of games that will remind people that the best of this industry is still to come.”
Of course, the other half of the show will be the awards themselves. Keighley says the Game of the Year award is "anyone's game" this year, commenting that there's "great tension" for the top gong. The ceremony goes out live on 9th December, in just under a month's time. Are you looking forward to it? Guess what'll take Game of the Year in the comments section below.
[source epicgames.com]
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Ok, this sounds like an improvement from last year's show. I'm in, hopefully it's not a huge disappointment like this year's PS Showcase
I cant wait, I look forward to this each year.
49 kiddy indie titles and one sequel to a Lego game. If its anything like last years so called mega blowout
It will be nice if we get a couple of megatons. Metal Gear Solid would be great.
Maybe we will finally see Abandoned.
Fingers crossed he delivers this year.
@SoulChimera Or a new Silent Hill maybe?
There’ll probably be at least one or two announcements I care about. Hopefully all the usual folk watch it live on here!
Not getting my hopes up. It's very likely that I will only like at least one or two game announcements.
Wonder what Kojima game will headline. Presumably the xbox title?
@MyThoughts31 yeah probably , last year was crap only watched it because I heard gal gadot was going to be appearing but she was only on screen for like 10 seconds
Hoping for Sonic Frontiers.
Most of those 50 games will be short trailers for indie games.
They should probably stop hyping it up to avoid the consistent disappointment it usually turns out to be and just say it'll be another video game advertisement marathon like it has been every other year.
@Would_you_kindly Last year was plain offensive, last time i looked 10 years olds dont earn enough money to buy a ps5 but almost the entire show was geared towards kiddy crap for 10-12 year olds. Like that Dinosaur cartoon game thing i forgot its name. 40 mins later they showed a working title for Ragnarok but no actual trailer or gameplay. Least this year that was rectified.
@Nepp67 My Name is Mayo 3 CONFIRMED for PS5 raytracing 4K visuals launch!
@Rob_230 Abandoned
The Game Awards have had some really good announcements for a number of years now. This will be a good show, I'm confident of that.
@LiamCroft last year 3 announcements of actual games, and about 40 of indie titles and not even good ones. Bugsnax wasnt bad but apart from that.
I always look forward to this. He makes it feel like how E3 used to feel leading up to it.
Resistance trilogy remake💛.sly cooper collection. Max payne 3 remastered.dragon dogma 2 .word up son
@playstation1995 Godfather 3, Getaway remastered collection and Pokemon Blue remastered are more likely. All for Ps5
@Old-Red Spectrewoods 2 is much saught after,
@MyThoughts31 Bugsnax wasn't announced at The Game Awards so it seems you're misremembering the event.
I'm particularly excited for the rumoured life if black Tiger sequel.
EVERY YEAR :-/ The same old BS I really am 'NOT' going to get hyped for this show & thinking about all the other shows 99% of the time it's 95% rubbish and 5% what I like
@Milt I wouldn't say the PS event this year was a HUGE disappointment, but it was definitely underwhelming.
It mentions about not video game stuff that's related to video games appearing (like movies and TV shows) so it's probably a safe guess that Mario movie, Halo TV show, Uncharted movie and TLoU TV show are all here.
I remember this being a huge waste of time last year... hopefully this one doesn't dissapoint.
All I ask to see is either Factions 2 or Hogwarts Legacy gameplay and I'll be happy.
TGA has been a let down on the announcements front for me in general. And the actual show is PAINFULLY bloated. So my hopes aren't particularly high.
I've enjoyed TGA well enough the last few years so I'll tune in again. I appreciate the work Geoff and his team put into a production like this every year. People love to poo poo him a lot but I like him.
As long as the Muppets are presenting again, I'll be there haha
This I will be excited for this Show. Geoff puts a lot of work into the shows and I am grateful for his efforts. With E3 dead this is the only thing we have left. The game awards and getting a look into whats coming in 2022 is some all Devs need to jump on each year! December is the right time to announce them.
I love how they just slap "world premiere" announced by an epic trailer voice to everything they show. But in Geoff I trust, he delivers the goods (unlike the platform holders themselves).
It makes sense giving E3 is about dead and buried.
@Korgon
Same. Even if the show is a let down it’s still great positivity about video games and promoting gaming as a major medium.
I think he’s completely unbiased and positive about everything gaming while not mixing facts and opinions. It’s very rare and there’s a lot of jealousy from journalists who dont begin to understand the concept and entitlement from gamers who don’t remember the times when nobody was ‘bragging’ about being gamers.
I will watch it...after its over.
I always find myself trying to FFW during live presentations anyway.
@LiamCroft Agreed. Last year was particularly odd with launch of new consoles most of the big announcements had already happened. Yet they still manged Perfect Dark, the next Mass Effect, The Calisto Protocol (Dead Space successor) and the memetastic Ark II with vin Diesel lol... to name a few.
This year will undoubtedly be better.
I'm not expecting HUGE news to come out of this event, will just watch for the fun.
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