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The Game Awards 2021 organizer Geoff Keighley revealed that the upcoming game industry event will host new game announcements “in the double digits” and will be the biggest lineup yet. Along with 40~50 game announcements with release dates between 2022 and 2023, the live orchestra will return with this year’s event. Furthermore, Keighley also assures fans that there will be no announcements relating to NFTs.
In an interview with Epic Games, Keighley discussed The Game Awards’ return to a live audience after last year’s fully online showing. Earlier last month, he announced that the awards show would return on December 9, 2021. Adding to this announcement, Keighley clarified that this year’s event would focus more on game announcements and news rather than celebrity appearances and performances:
You know, it’s great to have celebrities, it’s great to have music, but I think focusing really on games is important. 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 … What we really learned last year was at the end of the day, it really is the games and the trailers that drive the show.
Additionally, Keighley stated that the event would feature 40~50 games “in some way or another”. Notably, there will be new game announcements “in the double digits” with many of the games centering around the next generation of consoles. In terms of spread, Keighley says that half of the show will be dedicated to awards, while the other half will be dedicated to announcements and premieres.
Interestingly, Keighley revealed that The Game Awards 2021 would also begin featuring non-game media as well. Specifically, movies and television adaptations of popular video game franchises. While Keighley doesn’t provide any examples by name, HBO’s upcoming adaptation of The Last of Us does seem like a good candidate. Furthermore, Keighley also expressed interest in creating a new award category specifically for these on-screen adaptations.
Keighley can’t say the same for NFTs, though, and definitively states that there “won’t be any NFT stuff” at this year’s awards. Good riddance.
[Source: Nibel via Twitter, EGS]