The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley recently revealed this year's show will be "significantly shorter" after listening to years of feedback, but if you thought that would result in a tight 90-minute event or so, you might be surprised on the evening. In a recent Twitch livestream, Keighley said he thinks "it's probably going to be about a two-and-a-half hour show" as opposed to the roughly 3 hours and 15-minute runtime of last year's showcase.
While the show's length still appears reliant on dress rehearsals, the host says the show could go longer depending on speeches given by award winners. He does commit to "trying to reduce the runtime a little bit", though. Not only is the show a long one, but European viewers are made to stay awake until the early hours of the morning — usually between 3am and 4am if they want to see everything and find out what game wins Game of the Year live.
To find out the start time in your territory, click through to our When Is The Game Awards 2022 guide. The likes of Final Fantasy XVI and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor are already confirmed the show, with many other big titles rumoured to show up. Will you tune in for the whole thing? Stock up on coffee in the comments below.
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That'll be me watching the trailers on YouTube the next day then. Don't have the time to waste on watching something that long with such little substance.
That's what sheeeee said, to the sub title.
Couldn't they find a timeslot that made for sense for Europeans? 2:30am EET for my time zone is a joke...
Can’t they split the award show and the game reveals/videos? Or do they rely on the later the get people to tune in to the former? Is this common with awards shows in different industries?
@Jey887 that's me with any show now, especially given a lot gets leaked these days
How many awards are there? Give them a few minutes each. Do the entire thing in an hour. There is no way I am sitting watching two and a half hours of awards.
Well, seems as I live in the UK, I shall do what I did last year, which is to watch it the following morning, and fast forward through all that holds no interest for me. Should be able to get it down to a more manageable hour or so*...
*Length may vary depending on the quality of what is on offer...
I'll root for a couple games per year to get some recognition but I honestly never liked self aggrandizing of shows like this from the likes of Hollywood. The game awards were smart to implement new game announcements. Without those, they really wouldn't be worth watching.
Sadly, I expect nothing to excite me this year so I won't be bothering to watch.
Not really news is it?
Of course it's shorter, do you think Valve has stock to cover a 4h show?
Next year it will be back to its original length.
Does that 2 1/2 hours include the 30 minute pregame show where last year a lot of the awards were announced?
I'll guess it doesn't, which means it's still 3 hours to watch it all. 😝
@AndyKazama Nintendo Directs are short and snappy enough, but other than that, I agree. It's a shame. I used to love E3 week.
Outside of this website, game awards has become my annual check-in with the industry and I generally enjoy the show and its mix of awards and trailers. 2.5 hours sounds good to me!
@belmont The same reason I did not care about E3 you think im going to stay up until far after midnight.
And probably most of the footage is something i dont care about that much next day you can check the highlights and be done with it.
Sorry Geoff, but no way in hell the main event of the Game Awards will live up to the spectacle of the pre-show
All out war between the Sonic fanbase and the Genshin Impact fanbase.
I miss E3 so VGA is my next thing to go. I'll see, I like the format to be honest.
2 hours and 30 minutes isn't that much better, but I'll take what I can get! Looking forward to whatever is shown off here.
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