The Game Awards 2023 recap: Baldur’s Gate 3 wins GOTY, award recipients and gala announcements
And that's a wrap!
The Game Awards 2023 has come to an end, cementing itself once again as an incredible collection of announcements and recognitions for some of the best games in the industry, as well as those that are soon to come to our hands.
Thank you for staying with us as the show went on, and stick around for all of the coverage you could ever want about everything that's been announced, as well as those that didn't get their moment at the stage today.
Baldur's Gate 3 wins GAME OF THE YEAR 2023!!!!!
A well deserved win by an incredible team of developers!
WITH A VENGEANCE!
Flute guy is back...
It's finally time,
The Game of the Year award will be presented right now
Monster Hunter Wilds is coming 2025!
The Finals is releasing its Season 1... right now!
Alan Wake 2 wins Best Game Direction
Final Fantasy XVI is getting even more story content!
Elphelt Valentine enters the Arena!
The next character is here, as well as a new 3v3 game mode!
Even more winners!
Best RPG - Baldur's Gate 3
Best Sim/Strategy Game - Pikmin 4
Best Sports/Racing Game - Forza Motorsport
Best Multiplayer - Baldur's Gate 3
Players Voice Award - Baldur's Gate 3
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom wins Best Action/Adventure Game
Light No Fire, a new massive indie game
From the creators of No Man's Sky
Sean Murray from HEllo Games reveals they're working on a new game
Even more ambitious than No Man's Sky
The Last of Us wins Best Adaptation
What a ghoulish look at the upcoming Fallout afaptation
Asgard's Wrath II is coming out on December 15, 2023
Exoborne, a sci-fi tactical multiplayer shooter, is coming soon
10 Chambers is back on that Heist S&#t
GTFO has one Final Battle left before the end
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Old Gods of Asgard!
And Alan Wake's dark ballet troupe
Mechabreak is coming soon
Zenless Zone Zero finally gets a release window
Coming 2024
ZZZ2
ZZZ3
The First Descendant gets a new look
Lightspeed LA presents a new AAA game
Last Sentinel, a AAA futuristic action game
Cyberpunk 2077 wins Best Ongoing Game
Arkane is working on a Blade game!
5 more categories have been awarded:
Best Score & Music - Final Fantasy XVI
Best Indie Game - Sea of Stars
Best Community Support - Baldur's Gate 3
Best Fighting Game - Street Fighter 6
Most Anticipated Game - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Apex Legends and Final Fantasy are getting a crossover
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth debuted its theme song with the TGA Orchestra
And it was accompanied by a trailer full of spoilers!
The First Berzeker: Khazan
The First Berserker: Khazan is a new action game, coming soon
From the creators of Life is Strange
A new game, the first by Surgent Studios
Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a new metroidvania drenched in African mythology and folklore comes as the first title by Surge Studios and EA Originals
Tchia wins Games for Impact
Black Myth: Wukong gets a release date
Journey to the west on August 20, 2024
Hi-Fi Rush wins Best Audio Design
A new Jurassic Park adventure
Jurassic Park Survival is a new adventure set right after the original movie.
Hideo Kojima's OD
Apparently, "The Avengers" of talent have joined Kojima to collaborate on this game. Mark us down as "extremely excited"
With Jordan Peele!
Jordan Peele joined the stage, to announce that he's working with Hideo Kojima on OD!
Hideo Kojima presents, a Hideo Kojima Game
Hideo Kojima is on the stage presenting his next project: "OD", starring Sophia Lillis
Oh boy, here we go...
A new Budokai Tenkaichi is here
Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Zero World is the full title of the next game in the Budokai Tenkaichi series
Another wave of awards have been presented:
Best Action Game - Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
Best Art Direction - Alan Wake 2
Best VR/AR - Resident Evil Village VR Mode
Best Mobile Game - Honkai: Star Rail
Rise of the Ronin
Rise of the Ronin gets a release date: March 22, 2024
The adventure of Mana continues
Visions of Mana, a new game in the Mana series by Square Enix, is coming soon
A new game from the world of Dead by Daylight
BeHaviour Interactive and Supermassive Games get together for "The Casting of Frank Stone", a cinematic Dead By Daylight experience
SEGA was not kidding around!
Five new games are now in development by SEGA, all of them returning series that fans have been clamoring for for decades!
Coccoon takes the award for Best Debut Indie Game
The Great Gonzo is here
Like twins
The creators of the Ori series present their next project: No Rest for the Wicked
Ikumi Nakamura from Unseen takes the stage to give fans a first look at her studio's first game
Alan Wake 2 wins Best Narrative
Sam LAke receives the award for Best Narrative for Alan Wake 2
Heilung brings the viking vibes of Senua's Saga to the stage
We've all been called to Valhalla, with Heilung taking the stage for a performance seemingly linked to the upcoming Senua's Saga
Dave the Diver and Dredge join forces to hunt terrible sea creatures and make some weird sushi in this unexpected crossover
Matthew McConaughey took the stage to present Exodus, a new space-faring and time-bending adventure coming 2025
The creators of Untitled Goose Game have announced their next title: Big Walk
God of War: Ragnarok - Valhalla
God of War Ragnarok is back with Valhalla, a seemingly roguelike Free DLC coming to PlayStation 5 on December 12, 2023
Neil Newbon wins Best Performance for Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3
He's back on stage!
The man, the myth, the legend
Geoff Keighley has taken the stage! The show begins!
World of Goo is getting a sequel!
The legendary indie is back! World of Goo 2 has just been announced
Iron Mouse wins Content Creator of the Year
Pony Island 2 is coming back to mess you up with unnatural mysteries, cute ponies, live-action segments(?) and of course, demons.
Harmonium: The Musical is bringing inclusivity in music to video games
Esports categories gets their winners
Faker - Best Esports Athlete
Potter - Best Esports Coach
2023 League of Legends World Championship - Best Esport Event
Valorant - Best Esports Game
JD Gaming - Best Esports Team
Forza Motorsport wins in Innovation and Accesibility
Super Mario Bros. Wonder wins Best Family Game
And here we go! The Game Awards 2023 are kicking off in less than an hour!
What kind of surprises does SEGA have up their sleeves? We won't have to wait much longer to find out!
The Gears of Fate keep turning!
Arc System Works will reveal the next character to be released for Guilty Gear Strive! do we have any FGC members in the house?
Things are going to get surreal today, as Metaphor: ReFantazio has been confirmed to be present at The Game Awards 2023.
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The show is about to begin!
Geoff Keighley himself has announced that the final rehearsal is already over. The show should begin any moment now!
Every GOTY winner from previous Game Awards galas
Curious about what other titles have been crowned as Game of the Year for their respective release dates? Here you'll find a list of every winner, from GTA San Andreas, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and more.
When does The Game Awards 2023 begins?
The show is starting very soon!
The Game Awards 2022 will take place on the night of December 7, 2023. The show will be transmitted live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, so you’ll have to adhere to Pacific time.
December 7, 2023, 4:30pm PT
December 7, 2023, 6:30pm CT
December 7, 2023, 7:30pm ET
December 8, 2023, 12:30am GMT
Don’t forget to find out how long the show will be, as well as all the nominees for the various award categories. And if you’re trying to find out just what to expect form the show this year (aside from the GOTY coronation), we’ve got you covered.
Follow The Game Awards 2023 live with us!
It's finally time! The Game Awards 2023 are starting soon, with host Geoff Keighley ready to present awards for many categories to some of the most outstanding video games released during this last 12 months.
Among those awards is, of course, the coveted Game of the Year! This year the competition is so fierce that many great titles had to be left behind in the voting phase. Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 are the titles in the race to get the prestigious title of GOTY 2023. Who will actually get it?
You can take a look at all of the other nominees for every category in the show right here.