The Game Awards, otherwise known as the Keighleys amongst my friends and I, will return with awards and reveals on December 8, 2022. The show will once again be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
For the hundreds of thousands, nay BILLIONS, of us folks that won't be attending in person, we will be able to watch through a variety of digital platforms. Those platforms include Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, probably Steam, and probably like a dozen other streaming platforms none of us have ever heard of. If you're feeling extra brave, you can spit in the face of Covid and Monkeypox by hitting up select IMAX theaters to watch the show with other brave souls.
Note: Please don't actually spit in the face of anyone or anything. That shit is highly contagious.
Geoff Keighley and Kimmie Kim will once again be executive producers on the show. It wasn't confirmed anywhere, but you can probably expect this year's event to be hosted by Keighley once again.
You can expect the usual assortment of awards given throughout the night, most of which will be relegated to rapid-fire mentions before and after commercial breaks. There will also be a bunch of new game reveals, as per usual. Last year we saw new trailers and reveals for thigns like the new Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie, Sonic Frontiers, Star Wars Eclipse, Homeworld 3, and plenty more. Can you expect another spicy NewsBits to come from this year's show? There is certainly a greater than 0% chance of that happening.
This year's event will at least feature one all-new category: Best Adaptation. This award will be given to "creative work that authentically adapts video game intellectual property to other popular media, including but not limited to theatrical movies, streaming shows, podcasts, novels, and comic books." So things like the Cuphead animated show could be a nomination here, or the Uncharted movie, maybe the Fortnite crossover comics, and other things of that nature.
