We know a few things about Geoff Keighley’s pet project, The Game Awards, already — like the fact it’ll be an in-person event, with a musical performance by Sting, and an exciting world premiere that’s been in the works for two and a half years.
How sweet that you think we’d have any idea! Keighley and pals — and he does seem to consider some of the industry’s biggest names his friends — have things under wraps for now.
Don’t forget to vote for your favourites in each category! The final winners will be decided by a “blended vote”: 90% determined by the voting jury, and 10% determined by public fan voting.
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For some reason I keep thinking this is on tomorrow Thursday December 2nd, not the 9th, I guess b/c of all the coverage lately.
@Tyranexx To be fair, basing it heavily on fan voting would mean that the most popular game would win pretty much every time, regardless of quality, innovation, etc.
Either way, the rewards themselves are completely irrelevant for me based on what’s nominated and past winners.
@Meteoroid While I don’t disagree, I do think they should lend a little more weight to fan votes; that 90%/10% ratio seems too unbalanced for my liking.
It’s a shame, because in previous years I quite enjoyed the hype and game news that came out of the TGAs.
While I do agree that the voting jury deserves some clout, I also think the consumers of a medium – in this case, gamers – deserve more representation.
The fact that Dread was nominated for GOTY and also that BOTW 2, Prime 4, and the Mario Movie have a chance of showing up gives me a good reason to tune in.