Game Awards Start Time: How To Watch, Reveals, And Nominees

When do The Game Awards start? This is the question on the mind of many video game fans eager to see their favourite games of 2021 crowned in this yearly award show. Despite a multitude of video game delays, The Game Awards is still filled with a worthy line-up of nominees, in what will as always be a tight race. But if you are keen to watch the show live, you will be wondering when The Game Awards actually start, as well as how to watch The Game Awards. Well we've got you covered in this guide which will answer what time The Game Awards start at and how to watch them.

The Game Awards Start Time: How To Watch The Stream

 

Wondering how to watch The Game Awards? Luckily, access to the show, which will see the likes of Deathloop and It Takes Two square off for the Best Game award, will be relatively easy to watch when it goes live. In fact, we've embedded the official YouTube livestream above, so you don't even need to leave this page.

Alternatively, you can head to the official The Game Awards Twitch channel for the event. If neither of those options suit you, you will also be able to watch the show on Twitter and Facebook Live.

The Game Awards Start Time And Date

When does The Game Awards start? For one, the yearly event hosted by industry figure Geoff Keighley will take place on Thursday December 9. It is already confirmed to be a massive event with celebrity guests such as Keanu Reeves, Carie-Anne Moss, Guillermo Del Toro, and Giancarlo Esposito.

The Game Awards will start at 5PM PT and 8PM ET. If that made any of our UK readers shudder, that's because you'll have to wait up until 1AM on December 10 if you want to watch the show. On the other end of the spectrum, Australian viewers can watch the show at 1PM AEDT. 

The Game Awards Announcements

The Game Awards have steadily become a massive event that will host a variety of big-time announcements for some of the most anticipated games and completely unannounced titles.

This doesn't look to be changing for The Game Awards 2021, as Geoff Keighley has already teased "four or five" announcements on par with their Elden Ring reveal. We already know that we will be getting our first look at the Halo TV show, along with our first glimpse of The Matrix Awakens. 

The Game Awards Nominees

Regardless of when The Game Awards start, we are dying to know who will take awards out of a roster of impressive nominees. Need a bit of scrubbing up on the who's who of this year's nominees? We've already broken down the Best Game nominees, but here's a list of all other nominees for The Game Awards 2021. 

Best Game Direction

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
• Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)

Best Ongoing

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)
• Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)

Best Narrative

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
• Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Indie

• 12 Minutes (Luis Antonio/Annapurna Interactive)
• Death's Door (Acid Nerve/Devolver Digital)
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
• Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)
• Loop Hero (Four Quarters/Devolver Digital)

Best Mobile Game

• Fantasian (Mistwalker)
• Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)
• League of Legends: Wild Rift (Riot Games)
• Marvel Future Revolution (Netmarble)
• Pokemon Unite (TiMi Studios/The Pokemon Company)

Best VR/AR

• Hitman 3 (IO Interactive)
• I Expect You To Die 2 (Schell Games)
• Lone Echo II (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
• Resident Evil 4 (Armature Studio/Capcom/Oculus Studios)
• Sniper Elite VR (Coatsink/Just Add Water/Rebellion Developments)

Best Action

• Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock/WB Games)
• Chivalry II (Torn Banner Studios/Tripwire Interactive)
• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
• Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
• Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Best Action/Adventure

• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
• Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
• Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Role Playing

• Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
• Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
• Scarlet Nexus (Bandai Namco)
• Shin Megami Tensei V (Atlus/Sega)
• Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting

• Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles (CyberConnect2/Sega)
• Guilty Gear -Strive- (Arc System Works)
• Melty Blood: Type Lumina (French-Bread/Delightworks)
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Ludosity/Fair Play Labs/GameMill)
• Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (Sega)

Best Debut Indie

• Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
• Sable (Shedworks/Raw Fury)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)
• The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers)
• Valheim (Iron Gate/Coffee Stain)

Best Family

• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
• Mario Party Superstars (NDcube/Nintendo)
• New Pokémon Snap (Bandai Namco/The Pokémon Company/Nintendo)
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Nintendo)
• WarioWare: Get It Together! (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best Sports/Racing

• F1 2021 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• FIFA 22 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed (Milestone)
• Riders Republic (Ubisoft Annecy/Ubisoft)

Best Sim/Strategy

• Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Evil Genius 2: World Domination (Rebellion Developments)
• Humankind (Amplitude Studios/Sega)
• Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Multiplayer

• Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock/WB Games)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
• Knockout City (Velan Studios/EA)
• Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
• New World (Amazon Games)
• Valheim (Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain)

Most Anticipated Game

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
• Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)

Best Art Direction

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)

Best Score and Music

• Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Przybylowicz, Piotr T. Adamczyk, Composers)
• Deathloop (Tom Salta, Composer)
• NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (Keiichi Okabe, Composer)
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Richard Jacques, Composer)
• The Artful Escape (Johnny Galvatron & Josh Abrahams, Composers)

Best Audio Design

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
• Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
• Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Best Performance

• Erika Mori as Alex Chen, Life is Strange: True Colors
• Giancarlo Esposito as Anton Castillo, Far Cry 6
• Jason E. Kelley as Colt Vahn, Deathloop
• Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village
• Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake, Deathloop

Games for Impact

• Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games/Skybound Games)
• Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games)
• Chicory (Greg Lobanow, Alexis dean-Jones, Lena Raine, Madeline Berger, A Shell in the Pit/Finji)
• Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)
• No Longer Home (Humble Grove, Hana Lee, Cel Davison, Adrienne Lombardo, Eli Rainsberry/Fellow Traveler)

Best Community Support

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man's Sky (Hello Games)

Innovation in Accessibility

• Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
• The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Creative Bytes Studios/Falling Squirrel)

Content Creator of the Year

• Dream
• Fuslie
• Gaules
• Ibai
• TheGrefg

Best Esports Game

• Call of Duty (Activision)
• CS:GO (Valve)
• DOTA2 (Valve)
• League of Legends (Riot Games)
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

• Chris "Simp" Lehr
• Heo "ShowMaker" Su
• Magomed "Collapse" Khalilov
• Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev
• Tyson "TenZ" Ngo

Best Esports Team

• Atlanta FaZe (COD)
• DWG KIA (LOL)
• Natus Vincere (CS:GO)
• Sentinels (Valorant)
• Team Spirit (DOTA2)

Best Esports Coach

• Airat "Silent" Gaziev
• Andrey "ENGH" Sholokhov
• Andrii "B1ad3" Horodenskyi
• James "Crowder" Crowder
• Kim "kkOma" Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event

• 2021 League of Legends World Championship
• PGL Major Stockholm 2021
• PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
• The International 2021
• Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters