Tag: The Game Awards
Effin and Geoffin
In case you missed it, Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree has been officially nominated for Game of the Year at next month's The Game Awards 2024. And guess what? The DLC's inclusion has sparked a substantial backlash across social media, Reddit, and even the comments sections of sites just like Push Square. The Game...
News Sony Leads Pack of Publishers Nominated at The Game Awards
Slow year for games, huh?
The Game Awards is undoubtedly the talk of the town today, not least because of Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion's controversial inclusion as Game of the Year nominee. Sony, and by extension, PlayStation, are set to continue dominating Geoff Keighley's award show, with first-party titles nominated
News Sony's Had a First-Party PS5, PS4 Game Nominated for Game of the Year Ten Times in a Row
Do not underestimate the power of PlayStation
Sony has had a first-party Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards ten years in a row. In fact, the streak would be even longer if 2014 hadn’t been such a lean year for the industry as a whole. Here are the titles that have been nominated: 2015: Bloodborne 2016: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s...
News All The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Revealed, Astro Bot Up for 7 Awards
FF7 Rebirth also gets 7 nominations
Geoff Keighley has today announced the games nominated for all the categories at The Game Awards next month, with the fan-favourite PS5 platformer Astro Bot one of the titles leading the way with 7 nominations. It's been nominated for Game of the Year, Best Art Direction, Best Score & Music, Best Audio Design,...
Interesting timing
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, or any other DLC add-on, will be eligible to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards. An update to the FAQ on the event’s official website notes: “The Game Awards aims to recognise the best creative and technical work each year, irrespective of the format of that content’s release...
News The Game Awards Will Confirm 2024 Nominees on Monday
Back your picks after the weekend
Geoff Keighley has confirmed the nominees for the 2024 edition of The Game Awards will be revealed on Monday, 18th November 2024. A particularly special year as the show celebrates its 10th anniversary, you will be able to find out what titles are up for the big Game of the Year award at 5pm GMT / 9am PT / 12pm ET...
Feature Best PS5 Announcement at The Game Awards 2023, as Voted by You
The Game Award goes to...
With The Game Awards 2023 now squarely in the rear view mirror, it's time to reflect on what was shown during Geoff Keighley's big end of year bash. Criticisms of the format and actual award presentations aside, the event did give us some significant game reveals. Last week, we asked the Push Square community to vote on...
News Here's Your First Glimpse of Honkai: Star Rail's New PS5 World
Penacony awaits
Honkai: Star Rail only launched on PS5 a few months ago, but the game’s approaching its first anniversary on all platforms. And next year, the Trailblazer will arrive on an entirely new planet, Penacony, as the main plot picks up pace again. For those of you who don’t play this turnbased RPG, it’s a single player live service...
News Geoff Keighley Agrees Winners Weren't Given Enough Stage Time at The Game Awards
Please Wrap It Up
The Game Awards has come and gone again, with 2023's show proving somewhat contentious, depending on who you ask. Something that became increasingly apparent as the show progressed was the pressure winners appeared to be under to wrap things up. Even Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke, who managed to snag Game of the Year with
News HoYoverse's Next Huge Gacha Hit Zenless Zone Zero Is Getting Closer
But still no PS5 confirmation
HoYoverse, the Chinese juggernaut behind games like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, wants to take over the world – one gacha at a time. Its next big thing, Zenless Zone Zero, was present once again at this year’s The Game Awards – and now it has a release window, 2024. Considering the game is enjoying a big...
Poll What Was the Best PS5 Game Announcement or Reveal at The Game Awards 2023?
There's a lot to choose from
Well, going by our previous poll, most people enjoyed The Game Awards 2023 — and that's always a plus when we're asking for your opinions on the event's best PS5 showing! As it turns out, Geoff wasn't lying; this year's show was packed with announcements and reveals. In fact, there was so much stuff that we were still...
Feature The Results of Our Game Awards 2023 Predictions Quiz Are In
Did you beat TGA 2023?
The Game Awards 2023 is over, and now it's time for the real reason we all tuned in: to find out if the Push Square community correctly predicted Geoff Keighley's big show! As has become tradition, we asked all of you to vote in a 20-question yes or no quiz, in an attempt to try and predict what would happen during The Game...
News The Game Awards Is Getting Ripped for Urging Award Winners to Wrap It Up
"I'mma let you finish but..."
The Game Awards 2023 largely delivered on its promise of celebrating the games industry, with a veritable smorgasbord of game announcements and trailers. However, one thing that was obvious to anyone watching is that award winners were not given much time on the stage to speak, following Kratos voice actor Christopher...
Guide What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2023?
All the PS5, PS4 reveals
The Game Awards is just about celebrating the games released this past year as it is looking to future titles with reveals and announcements, so this guide provides a complete round-up of all the PS5, PS4 news from the show. For any news relating to Microsoft and Nintendo, please refer to our sister sites Nintendo Life and...
Poll Was The Game Awards 2023 Worth Watching?
Give a rating for Keighley's performance
Another yearly instalment of The Game Awards has been and gone, handing out recognition to some fantastic titles and announcing promising new ones alongside them. You'll find a full list of All The Game Awards 2023 Winners and What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2023 through the two links, so once you've...
Guide All The Game Awards 2023 Winners
Every category winner revealed
The lights on another edition of The Game Awards have been switched off, heralding in new announcements and more worthy winners. Below you shall find a list of All The Game Awards 2023 Winners, from the Game of the Year accolade right the way through to the genre awards and eSports winners. For information on What Was...
Live Watch The Game Awards 2023 Right Here
Tune in for all the news and awards
We've essentially reached the end of the year, so now it's time for hype man Geoff Keighley to dress up all fancy and put on The Game Awards once again. The likes of Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will duke it out for the coveted Game of the Year gong, while new PS5, PS4 reveals and game...
News PS Store's Game Awards Sale Brings Prices Down on PS5, PS4 Nominees and More
Everyone's a winner
As is tradition, The Game Awards is not just an hours-long show about the year's best and brightest, it's also a sale on the PS Store. Yes, if you hop onto the Store right now, you can find a new promotion themed around Geoff Keighley's big special night, offering up discounts on a hundred or so games. Chief among the included...
Guide What Time Is The Game Awards 2023?
Dates, times, and what to expect
What time is The Game Awards 2023, and where can you watch it? Geoff Keighley's 10th annual awards show is coming up soon, where the host will hand out trophies to deserving developers, bring on celebrity guests, and make a few game announcements for good measure. It's always a fun event to see off the year. So, when...
News Atlus Fans Will Want to Watch The Game Awards for an Update on PS5, PS4's Metaphor: ReFantazio
Time to get Persona-l
What can you expect from The Game Awards later this week? Well, host Geoff Keighley is keeping a lot of the announcements under cloak and dagger, but he has teased an update on Atlus’ long-in-development Metaphor: ReFantazio. This is the latest effort from the Persona team, with a release date reveal possible, considering...
Feature Predict The Game Awards 2023 with Our 20 Question Quiz
Can you predict TGA 2023?
We're just over 24 hours away from The Game Awards 2023 at the time of writing, and as has become an annual tradition, we once again invite you to take part in our Predictions Quiz. For those of you who may be new to the concept, we all answer a series of yes or no questions as a community, in an attempt to try and predict...
News Guilty Gear Strive Grabs a Big Game Awards Character Reveal
Let's rock
The next DLC character for Guilty Gear Strive will be announced during The Game Awards 2023 this week. The confirmation comes from developer Arc System Works itself, but there are no concrete hints to go off with regards to who the latest addition could be. Many fans are still waiting on returning fighters like Slayer, Dizzy, or Venom,...
News Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition Highlights Awesome Indie Games Today
Watch it live
If The Game Awards itself isn't really your cup of tea, but you're still hankering for a gaming showcase, have no fear. Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition is happening today, 6th December 2023, showing off a wide variety of indie games heading to PC and consoles. This isn't the first time Day of the Devs and Geoff Keighley have...
News Hardcore PS5 Action RPG The First Berserker Will Debut Gameplay This Week
First!
We wouldn't blame you for forgetting all about Arad Chronicle: Khazan — the action RPG that was announced over a year ago, back in November 2022. Developed by South Korean outfit Neople, the game takes place in the world of Dungeon Fighter Online — a popular PC title in Asian territories. And, well... we've heard nothing about the project...
News Final Five Games Battle It Out for The Game Awards Players' Choice
Final round
The Players' Choice award at The Game Awards is, as the name suggests, fully voted for by fans. The category adopts a tournament-like structure, with games being eliminated on a round-to-round basis. And now, we're down to the final five — with the eventual winner being announced at Geoff Keighley's big show later this week. The...
Rumour EA Originals Reportedly Announcing a Brand New Title at The Game Awards
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU leaked
It looks as though we have our first big leak from this year's The Game Awards. According to billbil-kun, who reliably leaks gaming information via Dealabs, one game we'll be seeing more of this week is a brand new title under the EA Originals label. According to the report, the game's name is Tales of Kenzera: ZAU,...
News Get Hyped for The Game Awards with Official Geoff Keighley Hype Trailer
The Keighley Cut
The Game Awards air this week, and anticipation to see the year's big winners, as well as some exclusive game reveals, grows by the minute. Throwing kerosene on the flames of our hype is the official Geoff Keighley Hype Trailer, which our host with the most personally edited and released to a ravenous audience. The Keighley Cut, as...
News SEGA Bringing 'New Era, New Energy' to The Game Awards
Please be excited
In one of the more genuinely exciting teases ahead of the video game industry's night-of-nights, The Game Awards, SEGA is bringing a "new era, new energy" to the show, so much so the company sent out letters advertising the fact. Ours must have gotten mixed up in the mail. Still, plenty of influencers and media types were sent a...
News GTA Stage Invader Prompts The Game Awards to Shore Up Security
Busted
Both at The Game Awards last year and at Gamescom Opening Night Live earlier this year, there have been stage invaders interrupting the Geoff Keighley hosted events. While these can be eyebrow raising moments at the best of times, they genuinely raise legitimate questions about the safety of those people on stage. Obviously, it’s something...
News The Game Awards Will Get Rid of Iconic World Premiere Banners
All announcements will stand side-by-side
World premiere. You read those two words in the voice of The Game Awards’ now-iconic voiceover artist, didn’t you? But according to host Geoff Keighley, you won’t be hearing it this time around, as the organiser has tried to unify all of its announcements this year. In other words: it wants world-first...
News The Game Awards' Big Popularity Contest Is Underway
Which way are you voting?
You may recall last year there was a battle between Sonic the Hedgehog and Genshin Impact fans, as both communities went to war over the Players’ Voice gong at The Game Awards. This is effectively a popularity contest: it’s a fan-voted battle between some of the biggest games on the planet, which consists of multiple...
Poll What Will Win Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023?
There can only be one
Now that we know all of the nominees for The Game Awards 2023 — which takes place in just a few weeks at the time or writing — we can sit back and speculate over the event's big winners. As is the case every year, the Game of the Year award is the most talked about category — but which title do you think will walk away...
News All The Game Awards 2023 Nominees Announced, Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 Lead the Way
Spider-Man 2 up for seven awards
Geoff Keighley has today announced all the nominated games for this year's The Game Awards ceremony, which takes place on Thursday, 7th December 2023. Across many different categories, the likes of Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 appear the most, both with eight nominations, including the overall Game of the Year...
News The Battle for Game of the Year in a Superb 2023 Begins on Monday
Who's going to win?
Which release is going to win Game of the Year? The field is so strong this year that just settling on several nominations is going to be a Herculean task in itself. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, with its outstanding review scores, is in with a shout, of course. But it’ll find itself up against strong competition from Nintendo, as...
News The 10th Annual Game Awards Is Scheduled in for 7th December
The big 1-0
Gamescom Opening Night Live just wrapped up, but Geoff Keighley rests for no one. The producer/presenter has three major beats every year, and next in his sights is The Game Awards. Keighley has announced the date for when 2023's big show takes place, and as expected, it's scheduled for just before the holidays on 7th December. This...
News The Game Awards Smashes Records Yet Again with 103 Million Viewers
That's a lot
Geoff Keighley will be popping the champagne tonight, as it's just been announced The Game Awards has broken its viewership records once again. For the ninth year in a row, the glitzy awards ceremony has attracted more and more people watching online, and 2022's show was easily the biggest yet. A huge 103 million viewers watched along...
Feature The Results for Our Game Awards 2022 Quiz Are In
Did you beat TGA 2022?
The Game Awards 2022 has come and gone, and you know what that means! Yep, we're going to share the results of our predictions quiz, which was published earlier this week. In it, we asked the Push Square community to predict the events of Geoff Keighley's show, through 20 yes or no questions. Needless to say, the results make...
News Sonic Fanbase Heartbroken Over The Game Awards Loss
Genshin Impact wins Players' Voice Award
Sonic the Hedgehog fans have been consoling themselves after losing out to Genshin Impact in the huge social media war to win the Players' Voice Award at The Game Awards last night. While there were three other finalists in
Reaction The Game Awards Finally Fulfils Its Potential
The Keighley to success
For a few years now, we’ve argued The Game Awards is just about as good as it can be – after all, there’s a ceiling to how engaging an industry awards ceremony, organised by an independent third-party, can possibly be. It’s clearly an expensive production that needs funding, and so the advertisements aren’t going...
News Busted! The Game Awards Stage Invader Arrested After Bill Clinton Interruption
An eventful end
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,...
Round Up What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2022?
All the PS5, PS4 reveals
Geoff Keighley once again took to the stage for The Game Awards at a rather unreasonable time for anywhere outside of the USA, so if you're looking for a round up of all the PS5, PS4 news the day after, you've come to the right place. You will find listed below all the announcements pertaining to PlayStation, including first...
Poll How Would You Rate The Game Awards 2022?
Share your thoughts
That's another set of awards and announcements over with, so it's time to share what you thought of The Game Awards for 2022. Geoff Keighley had some mixed messaging going into the show, hyping it up in places but downplaying some announcements elsewhere. Still, the show itself seemed to deliver. The big reveals went to Death...
Guide All The Game Awards 2022 Winners
Every winner from each category revealed
The Game Awards are over for another year, but many developers have reason to celebrate after their titles won during the show. Geoff Keighley handed out more than 30 awards on the night, so we have listed every winner from the show below. For information on What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2022, click...
News Enjoy Endless Adventuring in Free-to-Play Online Action RPG Wayfinder
From the makers of Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Airship Syndicate has an interesting slate of games under its belt, and they're all pretty dang good. Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Darksiders Genesis, and Ruined King: A League of Legends Story were all warmly received. Now, the studio is back with an original IP, this time delving into the world of...
Live Watch The Game Awards 2022 Right Here
Join us for all the announcements and award winners
A year has come and gone without a major Sony press conference, so all eyes will be on Geoff Keighley to see what surprises he has in store for PS5 and PS4 owners. The Game Awards is always a bit of an oddity – it straddles the line between industry celebration and multiformat press conference...
Feature Predict The Game Awards 2022 With Our Ridiculous 20 Question Quiz
Can you predict TGA 2022?
It's that time of the year, folks! In what has become an annual tradition here on Push Square, we've put together a 'Predictions Quiz' for The Game Awards 2022. The end-of-year event always serves up some big talking points, so if you're looking forward to Geoff Keighley's show, you may want to give this quiz a shot...
News PS Store Hosting a Demo Festival for The Game Awards
Two PS5 demos available so far
Update: A demo for Season: A Letter to the Future has now appeared in the Demo Festival tab as the PS5, PS4 title confirms its late January 2023 release date. Original story: The PS Store is hosting a Demo Festival that looks set to bring a number of pre-release testers to PS5 users
Guide What Time Is The Game Awards 2022?
Dates, times, and what to expect
What time is The Game Awards 2022? Geoff Keighley is about to step onto the stage in his big trainers to send off the year with a bang. Comprising numerous awards given to the year's top talent and various trailers and announcements for 2023 and beyond, The Game Awards always makes a nice splash just before the year...
Poll Will You Be Watching The Game Awards 2022?
And why do you watch it?
The Game Awards 2022 is just over 24 hours away, and we want to know if you'll be tuning into Geoff Keighley's annual bonanza. Over the last few years, Geoff and his team have managed to expand the event beyond its original vision. What started out as a still relatively niche celebration of gaming has evolved into a huge...
News Sonic Frontiers, Genshin Impact Fans at War Over Players' Voice Award
The Game Awards gets heated
Battle lines have been drawn and a video game war is being fought across social media: it's Sonic Frontiers vs. Genshin Impact. Both titles have been nominated for the Players' Voice Awards at The Game Awards tomorrow night, and the hardcore fanbase of each game has taken it upon itself to try and make their chosen game...
