As someone who does enjoy watching some award shows, when it comes to Geoff Keighley, The Game Awards is one event I enjoy. This year’s broadcast that happens to be set for Thursday, December 6 from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, will live stream to gamers around the world across a record-setting 40 global video networks, including expanded distribution in China. This alone is great news for viewership since more than just the US will have eye on this show. Maybe, we’ll see more of Death Stranding that we still don’t know nothing about after years of teasing?
Though after the teaser video below. I’m looking forward to the categories we’ll be having for this year. Plus the voting on the best Discord server can only have me guess on what servers will be on this list and how it’ll be done. Full information of what providers will be featuring this show are below as well as details on when you can start voting.
“Video games are a common passion around the world, and in 2018, The Game Awards is expanding its distribution to celebrate the power of games in more places than ever before,” said Geoff Keighley, creator/executive producer of The Game Awards. “We’re also giving gamers even more choice in how they select winners across the web, social media, Alexa Voice, Google Assistant, and for the first time ever, via a Discord server.”
Platforms that will air The Game Awards live on December 6 will include YouTube (in 4K UHD resolution), Twitter, Facebook, Mixer, Steam TV, PlayStation 4, Xbox Live, IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, MLG, Caffeine.tv, with more to be announced.
Internationally, The Game Awards will air live with translation on the following platforms:
CHINA: Tencent QQ, EgameQQ, DouYu, Panda TV, BilliBili, Huya, NimoTV, Huomao, Longzhu, Wegame, iQIYI, G-Cores, Quanmin, Zhanqi.tv
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Bigo Live, Tamago
TAIWAIN: KingKong
KOREA: AfreecaTV, KakaoTV, Naver
GERMANY: RocketBeans
JAPAN: NicoNico, OpenRec
BRAZIL: CubeTV, StreamCraft, UOL Jogos
RUSSIA: GoodGame, VKontakte
Content creators on select platforms will also be able to co-stream the show and share it with their audience in real-time.
INNOVATIVE GAMERS’ CHOICE VOTING
Fans can help choose the winners in all categories via online voting across several digital and social platforms, including on TheGameAwards.com. Certain award categories can also be voted on directly via Facebook Messenger and Twitter Direct Message. Fans can talk to Amazon Alexa to vote for specific categories, and also use their voice to vote via The Game Awards action, which works with the Google Assistant.
In an industry-first, gamers will be able to help select the winners in all categories of The Game Awards by voting for their favorites in the official The Game Awards Discord server (discord.gg/thegameawards). The server, which is open for fans to join now, will be the place to get show info before, during and after the awards. Voting will officially open in-server on November 13 and run to December 5.
NOMINEE ANNOUNCEMENT: NOVEMBER 13
Nominees for The Game Awards will be announced on Tuesday, November 13 at Noon ET / 9am PT with a video announcement at TheGameAwards.com. News on world premieres, presenters, honorees, and musical performances will be announced in the coming weeks leading into the live show on Thursday, December 6.
