The Game Awards have quickly become one of the must-watch events for fans of big announcements, and according to organizer and host Geoff Keighley, this year will be even bigger than before.
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Speaking to Epic Games in a brand-new interview, Keighley said that their focus with the 2021 edition of the Game Awards will be to focus on the games, and what’s to come in the future.
“You know, it’s great to have celebrities, it’s great to have music, but I think focusing really on games is important,” Keighley said. “Especially this year, there’ll be a lot of content for 2022 and 2023 that will be showing us our kind of biggest lineup yet of world premieres and announcements.”
Keighley went on to say that he expects the show to feature 40 to 50 games “some way or another,” and said that the number of new games that will be announced is already “probably” in the double digits.
“It’s definitely a very busy year in terms of the number of games we’re being pitched,” said Keighley. “We’re blessed that pretty much every developer and publisher wants to have some degree of content on the show.
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“I still feel like we’ve only kind of sort of touched the surface of what’s possible on the PS5 and Xbox Series X, so I think you’ll see some stuff in the show that is truly pretty stunning. We’ll see footage of games that will remind people that the best of this industry is still to come.”
The Game Awards 2021 will take place on December 9, 2021, and will be available to stream across a wide variety of platforms.
