We’re just a little more than a week away from The Game Awards 2023, which is set to take place on Thursday, December 7 in Los Angeles. In anticipation for this, presenter and organizer Geoff Keighly hosted a special The Game Awards Q&A where he addressed some questions in regards to this year’s event. One particular topic that came up was the “World Premiere” title cards that would be shown ahead of a brand new reveal for an IP or a major update to an existing title. Keighly stated in the Q&A that starting this year, The Game Awards will be “moving away from that.”
Regarding this response, Keighly followed up with a bit of an explanation was to why they are no longer using the famous title cards. This can also be viewed in this Twitch Clip here. “Everything is kinda just ‘is it a first look? Is it an announcement, etc?’ So we just treat it all as great game content, and there’s lots of games.” What Keighly is possibly alluding to is that he and the team would prefer to just show the content without any sort of prefix or introduction, and only make every reveal/update considered on a similar level. This has also sparked some conversation among fans as to where this year’s event will have as many premieres as previous iterations, but that still remains to be seen.
Another major topic that Keighly tacked was the issue of stage crashing at events in which he is hosting. Keighly confirmed that they are indeed beefing up security measures to prevent this from happening as well. “Yeah, we are. We don’t want to talk about that stuff too publicly just because, you know, it’s security,” he said. During the ending to last year’s event when Elden Ring won Game of the Year, someone crashed the stage and was able to grab the microphone and spoke the now infamous sentence which everyone has seen and heard. The crasher, identified as Matan Even, turned out to be well-known person who showed up at random events and found a way to instigate situations such as this. Keighly experienced this again during this year’s Gamescom, where someone ran up to the stage and attempted to yell into the microphone before being taken away. Safe to say that Keighly is probably a little tired of this and wants to ensure that he won’t be interrupted anymore.
Hopefully, they also limit the amount of time that someone can speak during an acceptance speech, no offense to Christopher Judge. The Game Awards 2023 will take place next week on Thursday, December 7, at 4:30 PM PST/7:30 PM EST.