How Squid Game: Unleashed’s team turned its dark source material into skill-based thrills
Boss Fight and Netflix Games debuted Squid Game: Unleashed at Gamescom 2024, and the team behind the 32-player battle-meets-party game reemerged at The Game Awards 2024 to announce that the game will be free to everyone — even if you don’t have a Netflix subs…
The Game Awards’ fan-voted game of the year nominees find room for snubs
Critics, journalists, and industry folk aren’t the only ones who get to vote on the best game of the year at The Game Awards. The Players’ Voice category, which seeks to recognize players’ favorite game of the year, is exclusively voted on by fans. TGA announ…
The Indie Game Awards announces its nominees for Game of the Year 2024
In a livestream Tuesday, the inaugural Indie Game Awards — a new awards show focused on “creativity, innovation, and passion” in the independent games space — announced its 2024 nominees for a slate of awards including Debut Game, Bite-Sized Game, Solo Develo…
Finally, a crafting game that solves the early game tree-punching problem
I’ve played so many survival and crafting games that I have the opening routine down to a science. Here’s how it usually goes: I wake up in a new environment and get straight to punching trees. Sometimes, I don’t even get to punch trees — I have to pick up st…
All the game announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2024
An avalanche of new game announcements hit at The Game Awards 2024, ranging from the return of classic franchises (Okami, Turok, Virtua Fighter) to the reveals of all-new worlds (Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic, something new from Fumito Ueda). For a rundown of e…
Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024
Astro Bot won the coveted Game of the Year award at The Game Awards Thursday night. Astro Bot, Balatro, Black Myth: Wukong, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Metaphor: ReFantazio were all up for the Game of the Year in 2024. The a…
Rewatching the 2004 Spike TV Video Game Awards, a true time capsule of gaming
The Game Awards is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. But for a full decade before The Game Awards, there was another, rowdier game-honoring awards show produced by Geoff Keighley: the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Just like the modern-day Game Awards,…
How The Game Awards voting works
Over the past 10 years, The Game Awards has become the go-to awards show for recognizing the best of the best video games, thanks to its splashy presentation, celebrity appearances, and exclusive reveals secured by the show’s host and creator, Geoff Keighley.…
Here all The Game Awards 2024 winners
The Game Awards will honor games and creators across genres during its Thursday night stream. While all eyes will be on which title takes home the coveted Game of the Year statue, there are a slew of other awards that will be handed out over the course of the…
What happened to these Game Awards reveals?
Over the past decade, The Game Awards has become a home for major video game reveals. Geoff Keighley’s annual celebration of gaming is arguably as much about the trailers than the actual awards handed out to game developers, streamers, esports athletes, and v…