Where to watch and what to expect

Time of year again: Geoff Keighley’s annual Game Awards will be held today, December 8, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles at 4:30 p.m. local time / 7:30 p.m. ET . Will you watch with us?

Thanks to a very helpful tweet from the official Game Awards account, we know you’ll have the choice of watching the event on YouTube, Twitch, Steam or Twitter.

You probably already have your favorite selection platform, which is certainly a logical way for you to decide where you’ll be glued and your ears to in about three hours. But as the tweet points out, you can watch the event in 4k on YouTube, Get exclusive rewards on Twitch (details below), watch on Steam (yes, Steam) to be able to win a Steam Deck (you’ll need Register) or, uh, join the festivities on Twitter dot com legacy social media site.

Stream where? If you ask me, the chance to win the Steam Deck is a pretty compelling reason to watch the prizes on Steam.tv, which is absolutely a thing that exists. Valve is pledging to give out one of those damn things for every minute of awarding. Valve’s mini PC is one of the coolest gaming hardware around, so it’s hard to refuse.

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But perhaps Twitch rewards suit your style better. The full details of Twitch Viewer rewards for The Game Awards are listed herebut here’s the gist of it:

• You’ll need to watch 60 minutes of The Game Awards from 7:30 p.m. ET to 10:30 p.m. ET.
• You must watch the show on one of the channels approved by Twitch (Official Game Awards channel is a good bet, but Full list here).
• Rewards will be sent to your Twitch inbox and you must redeem them by December 10, 3 p.m. ET (by the way, it’s this Saturday).

But what are you winning? It’s mainly some cosmetic items, the only thing that interests me is war frame siandana if we are honest. Actually I hope it is war frame and not Frames, Warframe evil twin with goatee and sinister smile. But there is also a free game. Have a look and maybe something stands out for your favorite:

So you have the choice of the highest resolution on YouTube, a chance to win a Steam Deck by watching on Steam, or a guaranteed (provided you have followed everything listed above) cosmetics for The fall boy, war frame, Between usa premium upgrade for private wifeTwitch expression from Sheep Cultand a free copy of Fraudulent legacy (on Epic Game Store).

Or, you know, you can watch it on Twitter. Decide, decide.

Okay. That’s where and when and what you can win. But what will even happen at this event other than superficial self-congratulations to fill the meaningless void that is our existence? (You can see The full list of nominees for tonight’s awards can be found hereand I know at least one person who will catch the waves only to have their hearts broken when Xenoblade Chronicles 3 didn’t win Game of the Year.) For my part, I can announce reckless speculations (Sale-I can’t do that), but instead, let me present what we are almost certain to be realistic about.

• Keighley here. You know his Kojima choom will be there. People are wondering what to expect from the Japanese developer’s studio hailed in a later postdead aground world, but based on a typical mysterious tweet from the same man (retweeted by Game Awards official Twitter), it looks like we’ll see Kojima’s latest production.
• If you love the music played at a game event for some silly reason, you may be pleased to know that Bear McCreary, the composer for Battlestar Galactica, Zombieand a little video game called God of War Ragnarok, will attend a live performance of “Blood Upon the Snow” from the game itself.
• We also know that a brand new trailer Because destiny 2upcoming expansion, the lightwill drop during the event.
• It also seems we’ll see a little bit EA and Koei Tecmo coming soon Monster hunter-inspirational game, Wild Heart. This is for sure caught my attention in Septemberso I want to see what’s in store.
• Baldur Gate fans will want to check out a new look in the upcoming third entry in this legendary RPG series.
• We will also see some word games Jedi: Falling Commandthe next part of, survivor. That’s right because Keighley said so (and I don’t care because it doesn’t giant 3).

In addition to the games, some important, maybe even fancy people will show up. Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson will be at The Game Awards ahead of the upcoming HBO adaptation Our last, is expected next year. So will, um, animals from The puppets. Josef Fares, director of a way out and it takes Twois also expected to be there to wow us all with his colorful vocabulary.

So that’s when, where, why and what we expect to see in tonight’s Geoffawards. Of course there might be a surprise or two that we haven’t covered here, but I guess that’s how they draw people in. That, and all the free Steam Decks.