This year, as we already know, The Game Awards will take place live, in-person at the Microsoft Theater on Thursday, December 9, 2021. But other than that, there hasn’t been an awful lot of information about the show shared, to date. Luckily, The Game Awards organiser Geoff Keighley has shared some more information about what we can expect from the showcase in a new interview with Epic Games.
The most important part of the interview addresses the number of those eponymous games that’ll be featured at the show. Keighley noted that 40-50 games will be included in the show in “some way or another” – we just hope they’re not all announcements and new trailers (we can only write up news so fast on the night, after all). Given that “about half the show [is awards] and the other half is the announcements and premieres,” it sounds like it’s going to be a busy night moving at breakneck speed.
Keighley also said the show will feature “really cool next-gen stuff” but that likley means PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (which many people call current-gen, for what it’s worth), so don’t expect any games announcements for the Xbox Series Y/Z or PS6 or whatever.
