The Game Awards to reveal nominees on 17 November, show comes to PS5 for first time

The nominees for this year's Game Awards, including the contenders for game of the year, will be announced on Tuesday, 17 November. Host and executive producer Geoff Keighley will reveal them in a live special on YouTube and Twitch starting at 19:00 Riga time. Fans can then see the full list and vote at thegameawards.com.

The nominees are chosen by an international jury of media outlets and content creators. The ceremony itself takes place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on 10 December and, as usual, will mix the awards with world premieres of new games and live music.

More platforms than ever

The show will stream on more platforms than ever this year. Disney+ and Roblox are first-time partners, and on 13 November Variety reported exclusively that the ceremony will also be available on Live TV on PlayStation 5. It will also stream on YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X, Kick, Facebook and Instagram Live, as well as on more than 20 platforms in China. It will be the first outside awards show livestreamed on Roblox, where users aged 18 and over can watch together and vote in a virtual venue called The Block.

Keighley told Variety that the show would not be sold exclusively to any single platform and would remain free on YouTube. “We're not interested in doing exclusive deals,” he said.

The year's biggest release

Keighley said he did not yet know how much of the show Rockstar Games' GTA VI would take up. The game comes out on 19 November, two days after the nominations. He said he hoped it would be represented, but stressed that it is not eligible in many categories, such as independent games, and that the show needs room for many other titles. Last year the French independent game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won most of the major awards.