Summary
The Game Awardshost Geoff Keighley revealed the highly anticipated event’s runtime. It looks like this year’s event will be a similar length toThe Game Awards 2022’s two-and-a-half-hour runtime.
The Game Awards 2023 goes live on December 7, where games will be crowned champions of various categories. Some of the most hyped-up categories includeGame of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, and Best Art Direction. In years past, Keighley worried that some of The Game Awards' events felt a bit drawn out, leading to viewer fatigue. This was the reason for 2022’s event seeing a reduction in runtime. The Game Awards has not been shy about slightly altering its yearly event to satisfy viewers, and it looks like the event is continuing with that trend.
Keighley confirmed that The Game Awards 2023 has a runtime of about two-and-a-half to three hours. This seems to follow the trend beginning with last year’s event, which saw a more streamlined presentation. Determining The Game Awards' runtime is probably a more complicated process than one might assume. Although the event focuses on its awards categories, it also heavily features new game announcements, which are a big draw for viewers. With the amount of publicity surrounding the event, there are plenty of high-profile developers that want their games to be revealed at The Game Awards. However, the event has to draw the line somewhere in order to keep its runtime in check, and also has to maintain a decent balance between game announcements and awards announcements.
How Long is The Game Awards 2023?
It seems that The Game Awards may have found its sweet spot in the two-and-a-half to three-hour range. This leaves ample time for its winners to be announced and for its highly anticipated reveals to be presented, while still keeping the show at a movie-like length. Excitement has been building for months regarding what games might be unveiled at the event, including thepotential reveal ofDeath Stranding 2.
The Game Awards 2023 will see some slight changes from previous events. Keighley previously revealed thatThe Game Awards 2023 is doing away with its “World Premiere"label for game announcements made at the event. He explained that the label was redundant due to almost all of the event’s game announcements being world premieres. Keighley also detailed that the event would have beefed up security from now on, thanks to last year’s incident during the Game of the Year acceptance speech.
Xbox teased that it’s going to be making some big announcementsat this year’s The Game Awards. Fans speculated that this may be the announcement of Activision Blizzard titles coming to Game Pass; Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard for over $68 billion earlier this year.
