Everything You Need to Know About The Game Awards 2023: When and How to Watch in India, Nominees, and More

The Game Awards is again for its 2023 version, signalling that point of the 12 months when the trade and followers collect collectively to have a good time the most effective in video video games. Marking the tenth iteration of the Geoff Keighley-hosted present, the annual occasion is held in excessive regard by builders worldwide, who will likely be competing in 31 classes that acknowledge video games throughout genres. As normal, the ceremony will likely be spruced up by massive bulletins and trailers for upcoming titles, backed by a devoted musical orchestra performed by returning composer Lorne Balfe. There have not been as many leaks this 12 months, so anticipation is excessive as avid gamers preserve their fingers crossed hoping for the largest reveals.

Given how the trailers and awards are spaced out, host Keighley as soon as once more expects The Recreation Awards to run for round three hours, albeit this 12 months, Valve is not giving out free Steam Decks each minute to on-line viewers. As an alternative, the corporate is doing a sweepstake at hand out 100 Steam Deck OLEDs (1TB fashions) to the fortunate few — residing in North America, Europe, and choose Asian areas — who can all enter as soon as the present goes dwell. There are no massive adjustments to the nominations this 12 months, however Keighley has confirmed that the creators are transferring away from utilizing the ‘World Premiere’ card at the beginning of their bulletins to deal with each trailer or first look as ‘nice recreation content material.’

Safety can also be getting tightened, as we have seen two cases of stage crashers strolling in to interrupt good moments and making absurd feedback — the primary one occurred throughout The Game Awards 2022 when Elden Ring lifted the trophy for Recreation of the Yr, whereas the opposite occurred at Summer time Recreation Fest, earlier this 12 months. Understandably, Keighley hasn’t gone into the specifics of the beefed-up measures.

The Recreation Awards 2023: Date and time

The Recreation Awards 2023 kicks off on Thursday, December 7 at 4:30pm PT/ 7:30pm ET, identical to final time. For India, this interprets to early morning Friday, December 8 at 6am IST with plans to finish at 9:30am — not essentially the most snug time to compensate for the largest gaming occasion of the 12 months. The primary thirty minutes of that runtime will likely be devoted to a pre-show, hosted by Sydnee Goodman, serving as a method for smaller builders to showcase their video games and content material creators to speak about what they’re anticipating from the present.

So when you’re solely planning to look at the primary present, tune in at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET within the US and 6:30am in India.

The Recreation Awards 2023: Methods to watch?

The ceremony will likely be held dwell from the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles with an in-person viewers, however as at all times, there is a simultaneous livestream deliberate. You’ll be able to watch The Recreation Awards 2023 without spending a dime on its official Twitch and YouTube channels, along with main platforms corresponding to X (previously Twitter), Facebook Live, Steam, TikTok Live, and Instagram Live. In fact, one might additionally watch it via different gaming livestreamers’ channels, who can have registered to co-stream the occasion and react to it. Viewers in India also can stream the present dwell on Disney+ Hotstar, MX Player, Voot, JioTV, and Loco, and might tune into YouTube Gaming for a Hindi-language feed.

Or you may simply watch the embedded stream under:

In case you occur to overlook The Recreation Awards dwell, a VOD will likely be revealed quickly after the occasion ends and there are at all times 4K uploads of the trailers and largest moments, obtainable individually on its official YouTube channel.

What to anticipate from The Recreation Awards 2023?

One of many largest causes gamers tune into The Game Awards is to find out about any upcoming video games and have their unrealistically excessive expectations checked. Larian Studios will finally unveil when Baldur’s Gate 3 will likely be coming to Xbox, which continues to be on monitor for launch this month, as promised. The studio was initially facing trouble with incorporating split-screen co-op on the Xbox Sequence S as a consequence of its technical limitations, so it is going to be attention-grabbing to know whether or not the group determined to ditch it or preserve content material parity. There’s additionally some unique Xbox reveals in retailer for us at The Recreation Awards, which many are hoping is a tease for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II information.

In the meantime, SEGA has been sending letters to preventing recreation content material creators world wide with the quote ‘New Period New Power,’ promising some thrilling stuff. Supermassive Video games — greatest recognized for the choice-based horror titles just like the Darkish Photos anthology — is collaborating with Behaviour Interactive to develop a single-player recreation primarily based inside the universe of Dead by Daylight. Staying with the horror theme, The Outlast Trials developer Crimson Barrels has planned an ‘essential broadcast’ for us. Then, Epic Video games prepares to point out a trailer for Rocket Racing, a automobile racing recreation mode constructed inside Fortnite, that includes all of the exaggerated mechanics from Rocket League corresponding to boosting and chickening out. The mode is predicted to launch without spending a dime on December 8, however the writer plans to point out one thing on the awards present.

The Recreation Awards’ official Twitter account briefly teased a Hideo Kojima announcement utilizing a side-eyes emoji, earlier than getting deleted. This might very nicely be a trailer for Death Stranding 2, which was revealed ultimately 12 months’s occasion by way of a cryptic teaser with returning leads Léa Seydoux and Norman Reedus. So yeah, its recreation director Hideo Kojima can also be anticipated to make an look, having arrived in Los Angeles earlier this week. Followers additionally count on FromSoftware to drop a trailer and launch date for the much-awaited Elden Ring DLC ‘Shadow of the Erdtree,’ introduced final 12 months, with hints pointing at a brand new explorable area and the presence of the Empyrian Miquella. Whereas it was initially believed that the growth can be out in early 2024, an interview from final week means that it is ‘slightly methods off’ however guarantees new battles and characters.

Studies declare Arkane Studios will showcase its subsequent title at The Recreation Awards 2023, which is predicted to be Dishonored 3 — particulars of which emerged from the Microsoft v US FTC courtroom proceedings in September. We’d additionally get one other glimpse at Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the untitled Mass Impact recreation, Tekken 8, Hades 2, and extra.

The Recreation Awards 2023 presenters

To honour the winners, Keighley loves mixing issues up by inviting each recreation trade titans and Hollywood actors. Christopher Judge, who performed Kratos within the God of War reboot video games, is returning to the stage to current an award this 12 months — presumably for Greatest Efficiency, given he was the winner final 12 months. Different standout presenters embrace Anthony Mackie, whose present Twisted Metal can also be competing within the Greatest Adaptation class; Respawn Leisure CEO Vince Zampella; and well-known DJ and EDM artist Zedd. Moreover them, the lead forged of the Fallout series will likely be making an look at The Recreation Awards 2023 — particularly Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Aaron Moten.

Alan Wake 2 followers are in for a deal with because the Poets of the Fall band will likely be performing a musical piece dwell on stage, beneath its in-game alter ego Outdated Gods of Asgard. And as everyone knows, Keighley’s love for Muppets is aware of no bounds, so The Nice Gonzo will even be round as a presenter.

The Recreation Awards 2023 nominees

As talked about earlier than, The Recreation Awards 2023 performs host to 31 categories, from which Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 are tied for eight nominations every, along with competing for the distinguished Recreation of the Yr trophy. Different GOTY nominees embrace The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Resident Evil 4 remake, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder — Keighley is strictly sticking to his six nominations rule, regardless of an especially robust 12 months for gaming. There are some robust contenders for Greatest Adaptation as nicely, with favourites being HBO’s The Last of Us and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

The nominee listing additionally sparked some debate on what constitutes an ‘impartial recreation’ when individuals on-line observed that Dave the Diver, the pixelated roguelike about deepsea fishing and promoting sushi, was nominated as ‘Greatest Unbiased Recreation.’ The factor is, regardless of its aesthetic, the sport is developed by Mintrocket, which belongs to an enormous South Korean writer Nexon — making it technically not indie. Keighley addressed these issues in a dwell Q&A stating that the phrase ‘indie’ might imply completely different to completely different individuals — “Does impartial imply the price range of the sport? Does impartial imply the place the supply of financing was? Is it primarily based on the group dimension? Is it the sort of impartial spirit of a recreation, that means sort of a smaller recreation that is completely different?”, he mentioned (by way of Kotaku), including that the priority is justified.