The Game Awards 2023 News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

The Game Awards 2023 has broken its own viewership record, clocking up around 118 million livestreams.

The Game Awards have enjoyed consistent growth since the first showcase took place in December 2014, to the point where they have become an integral pillar for the community, especially in terms of new reveals and announcements by developers and publishers all around the world. This year’s showcase, like previous years’, was another one to exhibit continued growth for the event.

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Following scrutiny from developers, The Game Awards founder and host Geoff Keighley has said he agrees the allotted speech time for each winner was too short this year.

The Game Awards has faced a slew of criticism about its format as developers were urged off stage. Its creator, director and figurehead Geoff Keighley responded and recognized the widespread frustration the next day on social media. 

Punkzilla has announced platform fighting game Combo Devils for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

was stealth-dropped onto Xbox Series X|S during The Game Awards last night, and it seems like this is because Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke forgot to make the announcement. Vincke was meant to mention the release during an award acceptance speech, but he failed at his “one job” and left several people confused in the process.

During The Game Awards, Capcom released a trailer for the newest generational game in a well-known RPG franchise. 

Last night, Geoff Keighley revealed dozens of trailers for upcoming video games, and interviewed some of his favourite celebrites and best palss from the games industry on stage. He also happened to hand out some awards to game developers. At his awards show. Titled The Game Awards.

A new was revealed at the 2023 Game Awards, giving fans a look at Simu Liu‘s presence in the game. Stormgate is set to launch on PC through Steam Early Access in summer 2024.

Capcom has finally announced its next mainline Monster Hunter title – Monster Hunter Wilds, launching in 2025 for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC. Check out the first trailer below, with more details in Summer 2024.

Lightspeed Studios’ Los Angeles division has announced Last Sentinel, a new open-world title set in futuristic Tokyo, led by Steve C. Martin of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption fame. It’s developed in Unreal Engine 5 – check out the first trailer below.

Capcom have unveiled the next entry in their dinosaur hat/pants/jumper-making sim this evening, and it's called Monster Hunter Wilds. A kick in the dino groin to this year's monster hunting pretender Wild Hearts, perhaps? Who can say. Formally unveiled at tonight's Game Awards, this new Monster Hunter is coming in 2025, and looks to be the jazzed-up successor to Monster Hunter: World. That's not a diss on Rise (which was excellent). Just that it's being developed for PC and consoles first, rather than Switch. And it looks rad as heck. Come and watch the reveal trailer below.

Do you like paragliding, exosuits, loot, and tornadoes? Do you like all of those things at once? Then you might enjoy the just-announced Exoborne, a tactical open world shooter from Sharkmob, the Swedish studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt. Running on Unreal Engine 5 and set in fictional, near-future Colton County, USA, it's a PvPvE affair in which you roam a big ruined map either alone or as a team, fighting other players, NPCs and renegade "natural" elements. Published by Level Infinite, it'll be a premium game with live service elements and microtransactions, and there's no release date yet. I caught a briefing before today's announcement, and yeah, it looks all right.

Gawd, it's like hyping yourself up before diving into a freezing cold ice lake. Okay, okay, okay. Brave face. Hey, it's time for The Game Awards 2023, everybody! Towards the end of every year, we all get to enjoy (or in our case, give up our evenings and ruin our fingers to the tune of) one of the gaming industry's biggest events. The Game Awards is not only an awards ceremony - it's a lavish smorgasbord of video game announcements, trailers, and news stretching into the early hours of the morning. At least for us Brits.

The final chapter of horrifying cooperative FPS GTFO is out now, sending it off with a scream as the developers look forward to their newly announced next game. The update, Rundown 8.0 Duality includes new expeditions, new awful beings to murder you, and new weapons to attempt to stop them. It looks awful in a lovely way. Maybe I'll finally pluck up the courage to give GTFO a proper go, especially as a free trial weekend is running on Steam and the game's discounted too. I'd have to be some sort of coward to ignore that. Some sort of coward who doesn't want to creep and fight through hordes of horrid meatmonsters.

The winners of the 2023 edition of The Game Awards have been announced.

SEGA has announced an initiative to produce brand new titles from its treasure trove of intellectual property. New games are currently in development for five legacy franchises: Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, and Streets of Rage, all reimagined for modern audiences.

Bethesda Softworks, Arkane Studios Lyon, Marvel Games have announced Marvel’s Blade, a “mature, single-player, third-person game” with an original story based on the comic book hero Blade. Platforms and a release date were not announced. Development has only just begun.

The first was shown at tonight’s Game Awards presentation, revealing the new action-adventure video game.

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has been dedicated to expanding and improving the space survival game ever since its launch nearly a decade ago, and while those updates will continue in the foreseeable future, the studio has other things it’s been working on as well. At The Game Awards, Hello Games founder and boss Sean Murray took the stage to unveil Light No Fire, the studio’s next game, which he says is going to be just as massive and ambitious as No Man’s Sky, echoing previous similar statements.

Move over, Henry Cavill. Your time as PC gaming's celebrity uber nerd is under threat. There's a new faction leader in town and he's coming to take your RTS lunch money when Stormgate - the very Starcraft 2-looking strategy game that's being made by ex-Starcraft 2 devs - launches into Steam Early Access in summer 2024. Yep, it's Shang-Chi actor Simu Liu, who took to the stage at tonight's Game Awards to announce he's not only a dab hand at Starcraft (handy), but that he's also the voice of its demonic Infernal Host chief, Warz. Yes, they actually named him Warz. Never changes, does it?

Following the fascinating and horrifying co-op shooter GTFO, developers 10 Chambers today announced their second game, a cooperative sci-fi heist 'em up named Den Of Wolves. Expect corporate espionage, sabotage, assassinations, and more in a futuristic island city. Oh, and meat computers? Lovely. Learn more in the announcement trailer, below.

Life Is Strange superstars Don't Nod are once again returning to spooky happenings amongst teenage girls, though this time in retrospect. In Geoff Keighley's Advert Amphitheatre today they announced Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, a new spooky story about young friends who encountered something strange in the summer of 1995 then became very much not friends for decades after. It looks interesting! Check out the announcement trailer.

Good news, Mana fans. After years of remakes and remasters, Square Enix have announced the first all-new Mana game in 15 years. Visions Of Mana will return to the series action-RPG roots, and pop you into the boots of Val, who - all right, deep breath - is a soul guard chosen to be the Alm Of Fire, and whose job it is to go and revive the mana flow at ye olde Mana Tree. Got it? GOod. Let's watch the reveal trailer.

I have absolutely no room in my life for another live service looter shooter but if it has grappling hooks, well, maybe I will install it for a wee look-see. I'm only human. Summer 2024 is when we'll all get to play The First Descendant, makers Nexon announced today during Geoff Keighley's Big Flick Through The Argos Catalogue. The news comes via a new cinematic trailer showing more of the sci-fantasy setting and, yes, a grappling hook.

At The Game Awards 2023, acclaimed director revealed he’s working with Hideo Kojima on the upcoming Xbox exclusive game OD.

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which won Most Anticipated Game of 2024 at The Game Awards, also revealed its theme song in a new trailer. Composed by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu with vocals by Loren Allred, “No Promises to Keep” spotlights Aerith and evokes “Eyes on Me” from Final Fantasy 8. Check it out below.

A dropped at tonight’s Game Awards ceremony, revealing the remake of the 2013 title. The remake is set to release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on February 28, 2024.

Remember Drool’s surreal rhythmic racer Thumper with its dark industrial synth? Puddle, the artist and composer behind it, is working on what seems to be a spiritual successor – Thrasher. The art style is as detailed and strange as Thumper, with players controlling a space eel and evolving it into a “megabeast.” Check out the announcement trailer.

Kojima Productions is, of course, busy with Death Stranding 2’s development in collaboration with Sony, but it has other irons in the fire as well. Last year it was announced that the studio was collaborating with Microsoft on an Xbox-exclusive game, and at The Game Awards, that game was formally unveiled.

Ikumi Nakamura left Tango Gameworks not long after being announced as the original director of Ghostwire: Tokyo, and later, in 2022, she unveiled her new indie team, Unseen, a studio she described as “a mix of cultures”, as “a breeding ground for new ideas.” At The Game Awards, we also got our first look at what the studio’s debut project will be.

Ninja Theory debuted a new trailer forSenua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Ninja Theory’s action-adventure follow-up to the 2017 classic, at The Game Awards. It sees Senua undergoing various trials and tribulations, from combat – which showcases an option to dual-wield a handaxe – to stealth and exploration. Check it out below.

World premieres at The Game Awards usually revolve around a single title, but Sega, promising a “new era” with “new energy”, has announced five. After many rumors, the publisher confirmed that a new Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi are in development. But that’s not all – Shinobi, Streets of Rage, and Golden Axe are also getting new titles. Check out the trailer below.

Monolith Productions’ Wonder Woman has yet to appear during The Game Awards, but don’t worry. Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has received a new trailer, showcasing boss battles against various members of the League. Check it out below.

I don't want to encourage more publishers to create irrelevant, self-indulgent trailers for Geoff Keighley's Advertganza, but I'll cut Sega a break for their one. Sure, the first 52 seconds are some live-action skit, but the following 41 seconds announce no less than five games. Sega are returning to their glory days once again, with new games coming based on Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Streets Of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, "and more." You can get a few tiny glimpses at those in the trailer below.

It's been a while since we last got a proper good look at Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, but this year's Game Awards hasn't just given us a new trailer for Ninja Theory's long-awaited sequel, but a rough release window as well. Coming in 2024 to PC, Xboxes and Game Pass, it hopefully won't be long now before we can continue Senua's story and maybe slay some cool looking giants.

Finji, the publishers behind Tunic and Night In The Woods, have revealed their next internal development project at tonight's Game Awards. Usual June is a new action adventure game where you play as the eponymous June, a college student who happens to be able to talk to ghosts. Hang on a second, has someone been reading Alice Bee's very good book? Sounds quite familiar if you ask me. Come and watch the reveal trailer.

Inscryption developer Daniel Mullins Games looked to be up to something ahead of The Game Awards, and that something is revealed – a sequel to the surreal Pony Island. Pony Island 2: Panda Circus launches in 2025 and looks even more cryptic than its predecessor. Check out the announcement trailer below.

After the deadly (and delightful) card game of Inscryption, creator Daniel Mullins is returning to his happy land of little horses. Today he announced Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a new genre-shifting curio described as "a phantasmagorical voyage through time, myth, divinity, and video games." I like that this description is likely wholly earnest and accurate. This news came during the pre-show for Geoff Keighley's Shopping Hour and if a game like this is relegated to the pre-show, I can only assume the main event will include Half-Life 3, Elden Ring 2, and Deus Ex 5.

The Game Awards 2023 is finally upon us, and we're following all the action with our (now it seems) traditional live blog. Join us for a night of awards, game trailers, and one epic flute guy.

The Game Awards are back tonight, as is our Game Awards liveblog. I’ll be doing the turbo-reporting solo this year, and since the main show kicks off at 12:30am GMT (that’s 7:30pm ET and 4:30pm PT), you lucky readers can follow both an announcement-rammed awards gig and one hardware hack’s public crumbling into exhausted, sleepless ruin. Live!

Treehouse Games has announced open-world survival crafting game Voyagers of Nera. It will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam in 2024.

A currently unnamed studio that consists of creator Michael Nowak and collaborator Trent Garlipp (A Walk With Yiayia) has announced Vivarium, a hand-drawn story-driven adventure game inspired by Love-de-Lic cult classics Chulip and moon, as well as slice-of-life adventure games like Boku No Natsuyasumi, with visuals and audio inspired by 1974 to early 1980s anime and manga. Platforms and a release date were not announced.

Happy Broccoli Games has announced Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, a 90 minutes-long mystery adventure game coming to PC via Steam in 2024.

SFB Games has announced adventure game The Mermaid’s Tongue for unspecified consoles and PC (Steam). It will launch in 2024. A limited-time demo is available now for PC.

Cozy puzzle adventure game Pine Hearts will launch for PC via Steam in Q1 2024, publisher Little Nook and developer Hyper Luminal Games announced.

Popcannibal has announced simulation game sequel Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2024.

This week is the week of The Games Awards, aka Geoffest, aka the Ke3ghleys - an absolute banquet of trailers, release dates and game announcements for the Maw. There are a few reveals in the offing. Some, we already know about, and may even have written up in advance; others, we'll learn about together with your good selves when the livestream begins at 4.30pm Los Angeles time on 7th December, which equates to 12.30am on 8th December (ouch) in the UK. There's the trifling matter of the first GTA 6 trailer on 5th December, too.

The Game Awards returns on December 7th, presenting a bevvy of reveals, new game announcements and much more. During a live Q&A stream on Twitch, producer and host Geoff Keighley confirmed that it would run for two-and-a-half to three hours, roughly similar to last year’s show.

As exciting as it can be to see new games in popular and established franchises getting announced, nothing quite beats the unveiling of an exciting and completely new IP. Interestingly enough, we might have plenty of that to look forward to in the very near future.

The Game Awards, set on December 7, are shaping up to be a packed showcase with plenty of reveals, announcements, and updates, and with the event now under a week away, details on what some of those announcements will be are beginning to trickle through.

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.

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.

We’re a little over a week away from this year’s The Game Awards, and as excitement surrounding the showcase continues to build, new details on it are beginning to emerge.

Daniel Mullins of Inscryption and Pony Island fame is known for his mind games, as his repertoire of unorthodox psychological horror games has showcased. That’s why he could be teasing his next game for a reveal at The Game Awards or messing around.

Each year, millions tune in to watch the Game Awards, an event that celebrates and showcases creative brilliance in the video game industry across multiple categories. But everyone’s got their eyes set on the main event: The Game of the Year.

The Game Awards has announced its nominees for 2023, as selected by a global jury of more than 100 media publications and influencer outlets.

The Game Awards is next month, and based on the latest announcement from Rockstar Games, it could feature the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. Nevertheless, even with other likely World Premieres, the awards are also worth watching, especially with nominees to be revealed on November 13th at 9 AM PT.

Gamescom Opening Night Live has wrapped, and Gamescom 2023 is in full swing. However, host Geoff Keighley confirmed that The Game Awards would return on December 7th, live from the Peacock Theater. There are no further details, but it will be the 10th anniversary of the show, so perhaps we can expect some surprises.

Geoff Keighley will host The Game Awards 2023 on December 7 at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, he announced as part of Gamescom 2023: Opening Night Live. 2023 will mark the 10th anniversary of the annual award show.

Last year, The Game Awards delivered several memorable moments, including the first look at The Super Mario Bros. Movie, as well as several celebrity appearances and a ton of major reveals in the world of gaming en route to attracting 103 million global viewers. This year looks to be no different, as the 10th annual The Game Awards arrives at the Peacock Theater (formerly Microsoft Theater) in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, December 7, 2023.

The Game Awards has grown enormously and has become a much-awaited annual year-end celebration for video game fans around the world since it first took place in 2014. If you're looking forward to watching it this year, you can now fire up your calendars and add a reminder: The 10th annual show is scheduled to stream live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 7th, 2023. Just like in the previous years, the event will stream for free across various platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok Live, Steam and X, the website formerly known as Twitter.