The Game Awards Will Continue In 2020 With A Different Format, Says Geoff Keighley

With 2020’s coronavirus pandemic having dashed many big gaming conventions such as E3 and more, fans have had concerns that The Game Awards would suffer a similar fate. Well, don’t fret – as it looks like the event will be adapting to circumstances and marching on!

In an interview with IGN, The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley confirmed that the show will definitely go on this year – although not in its usual big-stage format. When asked whether the show would go virtual this year, Keighley replied:

“Yeah… what I will say about it is, we have a very interesting plan for the show this year. We’re definitely doing it. A lot of people are [asking], ‘Are you delaying it? The Oscars are being postponed, are you postponing The Game Awards?’ We are absolutely not. We’ll share more in the coming weeks about it, but it’s actually probably going to be our biggest show yet.

We are obviously not going to have 10,000 people in a room together, physically, for the show, but I think… you’ll see a little bit of this with how we do GamesCom. We’re definitely doing more than just me in a room, announcing winners. I’m really passionate about [still] doing the show live, versus something pre-recorded. So, yeah, we’re working on some scenarios for ways we can present the show live with a bit of spectacle to people… without the public [being] able to buy tickets to come to the show, and things like that, this year.

There’s a lot of work and, honestly, our team is working overtime thinking of how we present this in a way that celebrates the industry in a bit bigger fashion. So we’re going to do some live stuff, we’re still hoping to do some spectacle and scale to how we do things, but we’re likely not going to be able to do the ‘traditional’ show this year, but it’s absolutely happening, for sure.”

As many readers will know, The Game Awards often hosts many exciting new announcements – such as Bayonetta 3 or the Joker DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Hopefully, Nintendo will be bringing something good to the show this year too!

We’ll report back as we hear more about The Game Awards this year. Stay tuned.