Geoff Keighley Archives

The Game Awards 2021 Sets Return Date For In-Person Ceremony
The event will be returning on December 9th, hosted by creator and executive producer Geoff Keighley, as they will honor the best titles of the year in front of a live audience, along with performances and major game announcements throughout the show It wasn't made clear, however, if they will be practicing social distancing throughout[...]
YouTube Gaming Will Get Exclusive Summer Game Fest Live Shows
The first event will kick off at 3:00 PM ET / Noon PT on Thursday, June 11 for PlayStation 5 – The Future of Gaming and will include a live pre-show with Geoff Keighley and YouTube creators recounting their favorite PlayStation memories and predicting which games they might see revealed Immediately following the live reveal[...]
Gamescom Opening Night Live To Happen On August 27th
One of the main attractions that will be moving forward with the online plans is Opening Night Live, which will be hosted by Geoff Keighley, who made the announcement of the date earlier today on Twitter. Gamescom will hold Opening Night Live on August 27th. "Although Gamescom will unfortunately not take place in Cologne this year, it[...]
Summer Game Fest Artowkr Square
The word came out from Geoff Keighley of the Video Game Awards, as several major video game companies will take part in the event Those companies include 2K Games, Activision, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Blizzard, Bungie, CD Projekt Red, Digital Extremes, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Square Enix, Private Division, Riot Games, Steam, and Warner[...]
The Game Awards Reveals The Game Festival Digital Event
After 48 hours pass, they'll be removed from Steam. "Six years ago I bet everything I had to create The Game Awards as a way to celebrate our passion for gaming," said The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley "Now feels like the right time to take the next step with The Game Festival, a completely digital[...]
The Game Awards 2019 Will Include Around 10 New Game Announcements
Credit: The Game Awards This year, The Game Awards is going to be chock-full of new video game announcements. Host and producer Geoff Keighley took to a Reddit AMA session to confirm the news. "We have a bunch of brand new games being announced at the show," he said to eager Redditors "There are around 10 new games/projects[...]
Your Actions Can Determine Whether Some "Death Stranding" NPCs Live or Die
The game was released just 10 days prior to the nominations coming out, and yet, it managed to snag nine nominations, including one for Game Of The Year. Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment Which has lead a lot of people to criticize the show's producer and host Geoff Keighley, claiming favoritism as 10 days is a very small[...]
The Game Awards Triples Its Audience Over Last Year
Taking to Twitter, host Geoff Keighley revealed that this year, the show was viewed by 11.5 million people That is just the small matter of the show tripling its audience in a year. I simply cannot believe it: #TheGameAwards live viewership triples year over year — with historic 11.5 million live streams in 3 hours Thank[...]
Geoff Keighley Hits No Man's Sky With Some Harsh Criticisms
No Man's Sky was first revealed to the world at VGX 2013 by host Geoff Keighley, in a trailer that really got people excited It is what paved the way for the game, and the start of the 'over hype' situation the game found itself in at release. Well, Keighley has now changed his tone a little, laying[...]
The Game Awards Garnered 2.3 Million Viewers Last Week
Host Geoff Keighley told Polygon that the show saw 2.3 million viewers this year, which is a 20% bump from last year Now, of course, I'd imagine a lot of the people watching weren't there for the congratulatory award giving The reveals and world premieres would undoubtedly go quite a long way to securing an audience. Still, despite[...]
Konami Blocked Hideo Kojima From Attending The Game Awards
Well, here is another in a long line of PR mishaps regrading the Konami and Hideo Kojima split. Last night, during The Game Awards, host Geoff Keighley announced that Hideo Kojima would not be attending the awards, despite him having every intention too The reason? Konami's lawyers blocked the developer from leaving the country as he[...]
Quantum Break Will Be At The Game Awards
The Game Awards are nigh, with Geoff Keighley's yearly ceremony taking place on Thursday night As ever, it will also be packed with world exclusives and reveals We already know that Far Cry: Primal will be at the show, but what else? Well, Keighley has now revealed that Quantum Break will be showing up too[...]
The Game Awards Return In Just A Few Weeks
Geoff Keighley has had several attempts at getting game awards right, but I think he really did his best work last year with the first independent The Game Awards Gone was the excess of Spike TV and TV scheduling, and instead we got a well thought out show that actually provided major surprises too. That is[...]
The Game Awards 2015 Are Already Being Worked On
I often talk about my admiration for great award ceremonies, especially within video games, so Geoff Keighley's new adventure was particularly pleasing It obviously wasn't perfect what with excessive adverts and near three hour run time being a pretty big hurdle Regardless though, it's a solid base and a million miles better than VGX in[...]