The Game Awards Game Of The Year Nominees Revealed

With The Game Awards just around the corner, Sega has teased a new game announcement at the event. Sending teaser letters to fighting game content creators, it points towards a Virtua Fighter 6 reveal at Geoff Keighley’s show.

With The Game Awards now less than a week away, we’ll likely be getting details on several announcements and reveals that are planned for the event in the coming days. In fact, it looks like Sega is going to have some important news to share.

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From Death Stranding 2 and Wonder Woman, to Judas and Hellblade 2, these are just some of the games we're hoping will make an appearance at this year's Game Awards.

66 members of The Game Awards Future Class, a program intended to honor people «who represent the bright, bold, and inclusive future for video games,» and hundreds of others involved with the videogame industry have signed an open letter calling for a statement acknowledging the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza during The Game Awards show in December.

Dozens of members of The Game Awards’ Future Class — a program that honors the “bright, bold, and inclusive future” of the video game industry, according to The Game Awards’ website — have signed an open letter to host Geoff Keighley and TGA Future Class director Emily Bouchoc asking for recognition of the Gaza humanitarian crisis during December’s live event.

The Game Awards 2023 takes place on December 7, and as usual, Geoff Keighley will serve as host. Voting for the Player’s Voice award has opened, and the list of impressive nominees will make picking the best tough this year.

One of the more memorable moments in the 2022 Game Awards came courtesy of a kid who crashed FromSoftware's acceptance of the Game of the Year award for Elden Ring. Don't expect something similar to happen in 2023, though, as TGA founder and host Geoff Keighley said during a recent Q&A livestream that «we definitely have plans» for better security at this year's event. Last year's stage-crasher was a bizarre prankster—he thanked his «Reformed Orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton» for the win—but ultimately harmless. A similar disturbance interrupted Gamescom Opening Night Live in August when two attendees rushed the stage and spoke into Keighley's microphone «Bill Clinton wants to play GTA 6,» an apparent nod to the Game Awards stage-crasher. But the ease with which these people infiltrated two major gaming events laid bare the fact that someone who isn't harmless could do the same thing. Sadly in this day and age, that's something organizers of public events like The Game Awards have to bear in mind. «Yeah, we are,» Keighley said when asked if security would be beefed up this year to prevent stage crashers. «We don't want to talk about that stuff too publicly, just because it's security and we definitely have plans, and we're trying to do all we can to keep me safe, but also everyone watching the show, in the audience, participating in the show and everything. »So yeah, it's something we're certainly thinking about. We appreciate the concern. Believe me, that's something that's top of mind for us, but we also want to put on a great show that celebrates these games, and celebrates our love for videogames. So that's an important thing to keep in mind as well. But I appreciate the concern around that."

Geoff Keighley, the host of The Game Awards, says that the awards show will have tighter security this year to help keep everyone safe.

What are the first words that come to mind when The Game Awards are mentioned? Well, aside from Doritos and Mountain Dew. “World Premiere,” right? For years, Geoff Keighley’s awards show has somewhat pretentiously referred to any new trailer shown during the show as a World Premiere, with the title card popping up constantly throughout the proceedings. Most people kind of roll their eyes at it, but what would The Game Awards be without the constant World Premiere talk? Well, it seems we’re about to find out.

The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has secret security plans to prevent yet another stage invasion incident.

With The Game Awards right around the corner, security concerns arise again, especially after last year’s incident. Creator and host Geoff Keighley addressed the same in a recent Twitch stream and confirmed increased security to prevent another such occurrence.