The calendar has flipped to December, and successful the video crippled satellite that means each eyes crook to The Game Awards, the yearly end-of-year solemnisation that mixes honors for Game of the Year with trailers and reveals for imaginable aboriginal GOTY grant winners.

The Game Awards and Keighley himself volition beryllium teasing what's to travel astatine this year's lawsuit via their societal media accounts, truthful acold including a live presumption by Final Fantasy XVI shaper Naoki Yoshida and a unrecorded show of "Blood Upon The Snow" from God of War Ragnarok by popular instrumentalist Hozier.

The Game Awards 2022 Start Time

The authoritative livestream for The Game Awards 2022 begins December 8 with a 30-minute pre-show astatine 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET, followed by the main amusement astatine 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. Award winners volition beryllium announced from over 30 categories crossed wide gaming and esports including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, and a caller grant for Best Adaptation of a video crippled IP into different signifier of media. The lawsuit volition besides diagnostic announcements involving "40 to 50 games" according to an Epic Games interrogation with Keighley, who calls this year's lawsuit the "biggest amusement yet."

• 5:00 PM PT
• 7:00 PM CDT
• 8:00 PM ET
• 2:00 AM GMT
• 12:00 PM AET (December 9)

How To Watch The Game Awards 2022 Stream

The Game Awards volition beryllium streaming unrecorded connected its authoritative YouTube and Twitch channels, on with nonstop feeds connected societal media sites similar Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter and close present connected GameSpot. Steam volition besides beryllium showing the event, and those who program to ticker connected Steam tin register to triumph a escaped Steam Deck--one of which volition beryllium fixed distant by Valve during each infinitesimal of the livestream.

Below is simply a moving database of everything that has been teased for the amusement truthful far, some by The Game Awards and by the companies themselves:

• A unrecorded presumption from Final Fantasy XVI shaper Naoki Yoshida
• A unrecorded show of "Blood Upon The Snow" from God of War Ragnarok by Hozier
• A enigma task from 505 Games involving Michael Madsen
• New Among Us quality during the pre-show
• Josef Faris, pb developer of 2021 Game Of The Year It Takes Two, has been confirmed arsenic a presenter
• A representation of a Tekken 8 themed package tweeted by Twitch streamer Aris--and Keighley's eye emoji reply--hint astatine a reveal

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