
The Game Awards proved more eventful than ever last night – and not just because of World Premiere trailers for Death Stranding 2 and Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. After Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge’s victory speech for Best Performance appeared to meander for an eternity, the show seemed to go off without a hitch, segueing effortlessly between genuinely engaging trailers and award winners. Until right at the very end, a stage invader interrupted FromSoftware’s acceptance of Game of the Year.
The individual appeared to wander on stage alongside Hidetaka Miyazaki and other members of the Elden Ring team, and could clearly be seen in the background during the delivery of the studio’s victory speech. As the auteur wrapped up, music sounded signalling the end of the show, before the stage invader reclaimed the microphone: “I want to nominate this award to my Reformed Orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton,” he said. As the camera cut back to host Geoff Keighley, he was clearly furious – although resisted the urge to comment directly on what had just happened.
Moments after the conclusion of the event, Keighley confirmed that the person had been arrested, but didn’t share any further details. It marked a curious ending to an otherwise excellent event. Ultimately, The Game Awards will need to reconsider its security for next year, as while the outcome could have been much worse in this instance, it obviously can’t have strangers walking up on stage.
[source twitter.com]
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You could see Geoff was seething during the outro. Aside from Judge's speech the whole show went pretty much as smoothly as it could, and then you get this nutter right at the end. Can't blame Geoff for being absolutely livid.
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika yh fair enough it's pretty niche. Apparently the kid's some far right streamer who's been on infowars. Nasty piece of work
He's an absolute idiot. And honestly a bit worrying how a complete random stranger just managed to walk up to the stage like that and no one really did anything about it. Lucky all he did was doing a idiotic speech. Could had been so much worse.
A stranger is just a friend you haven't met
Is Bill Clinton the one that said 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' lol
@RiceC03 is he even 18??
Imagine doing something like this and getting arrested just to spout some lame alt-right meme that 95% of the audience won't understand anyway.
@Would_you_kindly yes lol
@kyleforrester87 All I know is he’s a scumbag anti - semite.
@RiceC03 Hopefully he's just a mixed up kid who sorts himself out.
@Would_you_kindly Yeah, but the dress was already stained.
This is the first I'm reading of the intrusion. Glad the idiot got arrested.
This wouldn't have happened if God of War won.
Thought it was an anti-Semitic thing. Pretty disgusting, don’t blame Geoff for being that angry.
Not going well for morons at events recently ,first those two German idiot activists glueing themselves to a removable conducters podium,google it ,its hilarious ,and now this fool
'Best Arrest' Award goes to...
I thought that he was Josef's son. Similar voice and gorgeous hair.
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I thought it was just random nonsense too - didn’t realise there was a hidden meaning behind his words. Kids today… back in my day he would have said something innocent like, “I wanna dedicate this award to your mom wink wink.” Now it’s all hidden meanings, antisemitism and tribal politics lol. Kids are so serious these days 👀
I’m saying ‘kids’ - no idea how old he actually is but he looks like he’s about 15.
@ShogunRok What was wrong with Christopher Judge's speech? Just that it was too long? The man gave an amazing performance and he won a major award for it. If he wants to talk for ten minutes, let him. I see no problem with that. It's a big moment in his life.
Geoff, your security is honestly beyond terrible.
What if someone had gone up there and handed Kojima a wedgie? Could you have lived with that? Could you??
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I mean, he is lol
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika. Bill Clinton.wheres monica Lewinsky🤔😄.word up son
@bpomber Nothing “wrong” per se, it was just incoherent rambling for 9 minutes.
@ShogunRok It was so weird. I saw him hanging out behind Miyazaki and I was thinking "who is he?" Just looked young and out of place. Then a few other FromSoft staff were around and I figured he was part of that, but he waited patiently, bided his time and stepped up to the mic. But he sort of bumbled his lines just as they realised what was happening and the cameras panned out and security pounced.
Wasn't entirely sure what was going on as it was 4am by then and losing my sanity
Sadly Matan, the YouTuber, likely get a net-gain of YouTube/social media followers as a result vs a slap on the wrist.
Now I want to see Bill Clinton in a gaming advert
Someone needs to get Ryan Reynolds and Maximum Effort on it.
@theGoodChap Yeah never heard or read that before. Anyway for this idiot now everyone is alt-right "again" and I bet Trump's name 'comes up in gaming articles for days. All because some idiot thought he was funny.
What a jack ***. I must admit though this dude must have been playing lots of Assassins Creed leading up to this stunt because he blended in with the crowd shockingly well. I didn't even notice him until he took the microphone.
Though after watching it again the dude was creepily just chilling behind Miyazaki and co. All I can say is I'm thankful all he did is spout some nonsense about Bill Clinton instead of attacking Miyazaki or something.
I used to play as Bill Clinton in NBA Jam on Genesis. Good times.
Kid didn’t do anything worth going to the Klink over.
Honestly the memes this has spawned are incredible. There’s one where the camera pans to Miyazaki to capture his reaction & you can see the kid 4 rows down in the centre lane joining the crew & it’s just captured with ‘invaded by dark spirit’ lmao.
Having said that, when he starts talking he goes ‘my turn...’. People must have #### themselves thinking what he might do. Bet they tighten up security from now.
I will say he did blend in expertly. Dressed smart-casual like a teen would for the event & he looked like he could’ve been an intern at FromSoft or working for Geoff.
All he’ll get is a slap on the wrist though. A lifetime ban for the venue, any future TGA’s & a fine and nothing else. Pitch invaders don’t get punished extensively so don’t see how he would- even though he should.
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika. Bill Clinton i did not have any sexual relationship with that woman.haha😳😃🤔😀.word up son
Honestly I was laughing it off and it didn't ruin the the show either. It was just so random.
@Toypop
You know some Media outlets are going to highlight it over the show because of those clicks.
There's something I don't understand though. I thought this event was "invite-only". How did the kid get in there in the first place?
I guess you could say this guy "Tarnished" the Elden Ring acceptance speech 😏
Why was this guy not tackled and rammed into the side of the stage like Kratos would do? Hell, the guy that motion captured Kratos was in the house probably still going on and on with his speech.
@theGoodChap oh yes I know - I read something earlier about this. I’d just put it down to 15 yo kid doing something stupid and moved on with my life like a normal person. But I know some people were outraged on Twitter as usual lol. It just shows how quickly misinformation can spread and how dangerous social media and the internet can be.
I mean it’s not like he walked on stage, slapped the presenter across the face on live tv (then picked up ‘best Actor’ award to thunderous applause and celebration).
The (entertainment) world is a strange place.
Who was in charge of security? Animal? Bloody Muppet had ONE JOB!
@theGoodChap My bad - suppose I did jump the gun a bit. Deleted my original comment, and thank you for the correction 👍
I remember noticing that he stood out like a sore thumb. And then thinking they didn't let the obnoxious kid finish his weird speech.
I found this moment hilarious, hoping something similar happens again in future Game Awards events.
How dare you complain about Christopher Judge. He delivered Oscar with performances as Kratos. He's allowed to talk as long as he wants during his award speech.
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