How to watch The Game Awards 2023

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The latest edition of The Game Awards, which honors the best video games of 2023, will emanate from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 7. It will be hosted by Canadian games journalist Geoff Keighley, creator and producer of the show, with Sydnee Goodman returning as host of the 30-minute preshow, titled Opening Act, in front of a live audience.

Tickets for the tenth edition of this show became available on November 6 and sold out within a week, quicker than any other year. There will also be increased security following stage interruptions at the previous edition last December and Gamescom's Opening Night Live in August.

Keighley has mentioned that they are aiming to keep the show and preshow with a collective three-hour runtime, just like its predecessor. The Game Awards 2023 will also be the fourth show to present the Future Class, a list of 50 individuals from across the video game spectrum who best represent its future.

How to watch The Game Awards 2023

This coveted awards ceremony will be telecast live from 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT/12:30 AM +1 GMT on the following platforms:

• Facebook
• TikTok Live
• Twitch
• X (formerly Twitter)
• YouTube
• SteamTV
• IGN
• GameSpot
• Instagram Live
• Kick
• Google Play

There will also be special broadcasts for specific regions that interested readers can check out here. Those in China watching the live show on Bilibili have a chance to win a PlayStation 5, as one of these in-demand consoles will be given away every ten minutes during the live broadcast.

To viewers watching #TheGameAwards in China on @bilibili_en , there will be a @PlayStation 5 given away every 10 minutes during the live show. pic.twitter.com/BUescZrv5G

— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 7, 2023

Fans of content creators can check their channels for their live-streaming schedules, while influencers interested in co-streaming the show can still fill out this form.

This year, there are nominations in 31 categories, including the most important ones like Game of the Year, Best Mobile Game, Most Anticipated Game, Best Esports Game, Best Esports Athlete, and Best Esports Team.

Every title released for public consumption until November 17 was eligible for consideration, with the nominees compiled by a jury panel consisting of members from more than 100 media outlets globally. The winners will be determined between the jury (90 percent) and public voting (10 percent), with the latter held via the official website and the Discord server until December 6.

Win giveaways for watching the ceremony

Lenovo Legion Go handheld gaming devices, an Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora themed, AMD-powered desktop PC courtesy of Maingear, and 100 Steam Deck OLEDs (1 TB) are up for grabs for viewers.

For the Lenovo gadget, fans can head here, while those wanting to win the awesome custom-built PC can go to this link to enter the giveaway. For the final prize, when watching the live broadcasts, audiences can open this URL for a chance to win the device.

Google Play has also come up with its own little award called Play More, which is about asking fans which game they are excited to 'Play More' of on mobile in 2024 among Age of Empires Mobile, Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile. Little Nightmares, and Rainbow Six Mobile. Viewers can head here during the live show to vote, with the winner to be announced at the first-ever Twitch Game Awards Post-Show.

The purple platform also has a community prediction extension where watchers can forecast who will win in the various categories. Everyone can do so until the show starts, with the community and global leaderboards revealing who performed best when looking into the crystal ball.

For this activity, Twitch has also released new chat icons, and to receive a badge, users must vote in each category on the Twitch channels of streamers with the new Twitch Predicts extension installed. Badges will be distributed in the days after The Game Awards 2023 broadcast.

What happened at The Game Awards 2022?

Last year's event attracted a record number of viewers, with the organizers disclosing that more than 55 million people voted. Over 50 new games were announced at the ceremony, including Death Stranding 2, Hades II, and Dune: Awakening.

  Important viewership stats and most successful channels from The Game Awards 2022   

From Software's Elden Ring won the Game of the Year gong at The Game Awards 2022, although the leader by nominations and award wins was God of War Ragnarok. It won prizes for Best Narrative, Best Audio Design, and Best Performance (Christopher Judge for the role of Kratos) awards, totaling six wins in ten categories.

The highly popular video games awards function hit lasted nearly four hours and racked up 10.8M Hours Watched, 2.8M Average Viewers, and 3.4M Peak Viewers, a record total. There were lots of reasons for such a massive viewership output, including giveaways, more channels (like xQc, Rubius, Ninja, ibai, Hasanabi) streaming it, and a rise in the audience reach of the main official channels.

Most popular editions of The Game Awards since 2018   

When looking at all The Game Awards events in our database, we can see a clear progression in the popularity of the awards function. Almost every subsequent edition gets better in terms of peak viewers and other metrics, and that is a big indication of how famous and beloved it has become over the past decade or so. With so much at stake this time, and with such a star-studded nominee list, fans will hope 2023 ends as the biggest iteration yet, and the palpable excitement heading into the show is a testament to that.