Watch the Game Awards

While I’m not the greatest fan of the Game Awards, and the often-suspect nominees and occasionally winners, but the good news is there’s often a decent number of announcements, so you can watch the Game Awards live (if you’re still awake) or catch up tomorrow with the embed below.

Xbox News – (All times in GMT)
2:20am:
So far there’s being noting major announced Xbox side, Playstation users got a glimpse of Death Stranding 2, and Forspoken, but so far (besides a few indie announcements) it’s mostly just been a handful of Gamepass adverts.

2:27am:
As Dusk Falls wins the award for “Games for Impact”

2:30am:
Baldurs Gate 3 World premier.

2:41am:
Artist “Halsey” takes to the stage to perform the track ‘Lillith’ shortly followed by a trailer for Diablo IV.
2:45am:
Release date confirmed, Diablo IV will release 6th June 2023.

2:46am:
A number of awards,
Splatoon 3 (multiplayer) God of War (Audio design) and Zelda (most anticipated)
Followed by a quick trailer for Burning Shores (the latest Horizon Forbidden West udder for Sony to milk).

2:51am:
Best Action game award goes to Bayonetta 3…

2:53am:
Blue Protocol from Namco Bandai (Coming to Xbox Series X-S 2023)

2:56am:
Remnant 2 announced… (looks even more Souls Like)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8da6XwxmV30

2:57am:
Transformers: reactivate –
Looks pretty promising.

2:59am:
Company of Heroes 3 : Console Edition quickly shown.

3:00am:
Behemoth (looks like a VR title)

3:01am:
Fall Guys tutorial showcasing the current season.

3:04am:
A look at the forthcoming Super Mario Bros movie, followed by an appearance from Animal (Muppets).
3:07am: Best Score and Music award : God of War (surprise, surprise, I’d honestly written this before it was announced).

3:08am:
Banishers
A new Action RPG revelead, by Focus entertainment and Dontnod…
http://play-banishers.com

3:12am:
Another game from Focus Entertainment, this time Warhammer…
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

3:13am:
Meet You Maker… Coming in April
http://meetyourmakergame.com

3:16am:
A quick Splatoon short, followed by a Bloodbowl 3 trailer.

3:17am:
Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (next gen update)) and Fortnite (Chapter 4) trailers are shown.

3:19am:
Crash Bandicoot literally crashes into the Game Awards…
showcasing the “Team vs Team Rumble” title called : Crash Team Rumble.

3:20am:
Innovation and Accessibility award is announced,
Shock horror, God of War Ragnorak wins.. though I’ll need some innovation and accessibility options to figure out how a game (while very good) isn’t very innovative, and pales in comparison for accessibility against far more inclusive games like The Quarry and As Dusk Falls.

3:24am:
The VERY Souls-like styled, “Lords of the Fallen” is showcased. and it looks pretty damn good.

3:25am:

Crime Boss: Rockay city, coming March 2023.
some big actors – Michael Madson, Kim Basinger, Danny Glover, Vannila Ice, and CHUCK NORRIS!!!

3:28am
A few more awards coming in…
Elden Ring wins one, Genshin Impact somehow beats God of War to one, and Stray picks up another.

3:29am
Best Action adventure is won by, you guessed it: God of War.

3:30am:
Best Ongoing game – Final Fantasy XIV

Trailer showcasing the Call of Duty MW2: Raid.

Followed by a quick advert for Discord chat on Xbox.

3:31am:
Dorito’ s Triangle Island on Fortnite
Island code:
3704-3339-9097

3:35am:
Best Game Direction award goes to:
Elden Ring

Idris Elber in Phatom Liberty (Cyberpunk 2077)

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3:40
Big announcement from Bandai Namco…
and From Software –
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

3:47: Final Fantasy announcement, exclusive to Playstation as expected..

3:51: Lots of ear-drum piercing music, that’s mad eme turn down my headset 4 times in the last 12 seconds,
I guess they’re trying to build anticipation for the God of .. ahem, Game of the Year Award.

3:55am
WOW!!!
God of War didn’t win it,

Elden Ring is Game of the year.
Nothing against God of War (or any of the nominees) but Elden Ring was by far the best game of the bunch, sure it was Dark Souls, but bringing that to the open world, was a big step and From Softward did an amazing job.

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