The Game Awards 2022: Where To Watch And What To Expect - Kotaku

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It’s that clip of the twelvemonth again: Geoff Keighley’s yearly Game Awards ceremonial volition beryllium held today, December 8, astatine the Microsoft Theater successful Los Angeles astatine 4:30 p.m. section clip / 7:30 p.m. ET. Are you going to ticker on with us?

Thanks to a precise useful tweet from the authoritative Game Awards account, we cognize that you’ll person the prime of watching the lawsuit connected YouTube, Twitch, Steam, oregon Twitter.

You whitethorn person your favourite level of prime already, which by each means is simply a just mode to marque up your caput arsenic to wherever you’ll parkland your eyes and ears for astir 3 hours. But arsenic the tweet indicates, you tin see the lawsuit successful 4k connected YouTube, claim exclusive rewards connected Twitch (details below), watch connected Steam (yes, Steam) to perchance triumph a Steam Deck (you’ll request to register) or, uh, drawback the festivities connected legacy societal media website Twitter dot com.

Where to stream? If you inquire me, the accidental to triumph a Steam Deck is simply a beauteous enticing crushed to ticker the awards connected Steam.tv, which is wholly a happening that exists. Valve is pledging to springiness retired 1 of the damn things for each infinitesimal of the awards. Valve’s mini PC is one of the coolest pieces of gaming hardware around, truthful that’s hard to crook down.

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But possibly Twitch rewards are much your style. The afloat details of the Twitch viewer rewards for The Game Awards are listed here, but here’s the gist of it:

  • You’ll request to ticker 60 minutes of The Game Awards betwixt 7:30 p.m. ET and 10:30 p.m. ET.
  • You indispensable ticker the amusement connected 1 of Twitch’s sanctioned channels (the authoritative Game Awards channel is simply a bully bet, but the afloat database is here).
  • Rewards volition beryllium sent to your Twitch inbox and you indispensable redeem them by December 10, 3 p.m. ET (that’s this Saturday, by the way).

But what are you winning? It’s mostly immoderate cosmetic items, the lone 1 of which I attraction astir is the Warframe syandana if we’re being honest. Actually I anticipation it’s Warframe and not Wraframe, Warframe’s evil duplicate with the goatee and sinister laugh. But there’s besides a escaped game. Have a look and possibly thing strikes your fancy:

So you’ve got a prime of the highest solution connected YouTube, a accidental astatine winning a Steam Deck by watching connected Steam, oregon guaranteed (provided you’ve followed everything listed above) cosmetics for Fall Guys, Warframe, Among Us, a deluxe-edition upgrade for Sifu, Twitch emotes from Cult of the Lamb, and a escaped transcript of Rogue Legacy (on the Epic Game Store).

Or, you know, you could ticker it connected Twitter. Decisions, decisions.

Okay. That’s wherever and erstwhile and what you mightiness win. But what is adjacent going to beryllium astatine this lawsuit too shallow self-congratulatory celebrations to capable the meaningless void that is our existence? (You tin spot the afloat database of nominees for tonight’s awards here, and I cognize astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic who volition beryllium tuning successful conscionable to person his bosom breached erstwhile Xenoblade Chronicles 3 doesn’t triumph Game of the Year.) I could people reckless speculations connected my portion (Half-Li—I can’t bash it), but alternatively fto maine laic retired what we astir surely for a information cognize volition beryllium there.

  • Come on, it’s Keighley. You cognize his choom Kojima volition beryllium there. Everyone’s wondering what to expect from the lauded Japanese dev’s workplace successful a post-Death Stranding world, but based connected a typically mysterious tweet from the antheral himself (retweeted by the authoritative Game Awards Twitter) it feels apt we’ll spot Kojima’s latest jam.
  • If you’re into euphony being played astatine a gaming lawsuit for immoderate godforsaken reason, you mightiness beryllium pleased to cognize that Bear McCreary, composer for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, and a small video crippled called God of War Ragnarök, will beryllium successful attendance for a unrecorded performance of “Blood Upon the Snow” from that precise game.
  • We besides cognize that a brand-new trailer for Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion, Lightfall, volition driblet during the event.
  • It besides seems we’ll spot a spot of EA and Koei Tecmo’s upcoming Monster Hunter-inspired game, Wild Hearts. This 1 decidedly caught my attraction backmost successful September, truthful I’m funny to spot what’s successful store.
  • Baldur’s Gate fans volition want to cheque retired a caller look astatine the upcoming 3rd introduction successful this legendary RPG series.
  • We’re besides going to spot immoderate gameplay from Jedi: Fallen Order’s sequel, Survivor. It’s existent because Keighley said so (and I don’t attraction due to the fact that it’s not Titanfall 3).

Beyond the games, immoderate important, perchance adjacent fancy radical are expected to marque an appearance. Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Troy Baker, and Ashley Johnson volition beryllium astatine the The Game Awards up of the upcoming HBO adaptation of The Last of Us, expected adjacent year. So will, um, Animal from The Muppets. Josef Fares, manager of A Way Out and It Takes Two, is besides expected to beryllium determination to wow america each with his colorful vocabulary.

So that’s when, where, why, and what we’re expecting to spot during the Geoffawards tonight. Of people determination mightiness beryllium a astonishment oregon 2 we haven’t covered here, but I conjecture that’s however they get everyone to watch. That, and each the escaped Steam Decks.

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