The Game Awards 2024 live: start times and how to watch
Players don’t have to wait much longer for THE largest gaming event of the year.
The biggest forthcoming games are revealed, announced, and trailered in hundreds at the Game Awards.
In addition, there are musical acts and, of course, prizes for 2024’s biggest games.
Here is all the information you need to watch the Game Awards.
When does The Game Awards 2024 start?
The precise start time of the Game Awards is a little difficult to determine because it lasts for several hours.
The feed begins with a 30-minute countdown around one hour prior to the main broadcast.
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After that, there is a 30-minute pre-show that does not have a stage and is not hosted by Geoff Keighley, but it does feature awards and trailers.
The pre-show starts at the hours shown below, but if you don’t mind missing the awards and previews, you can start viewing half an hour later.
- Thursday, December 12, 2024
- 4:30pm PT (Western US)
- 7:30pm ET (Eastern US)
- Friday, December 13, 2024
- 12:30am GMT (UK time)
- 1:30am CET (Central Europe)
- 9:30am JST (Japan time)
- 11:30am AEDT (Eastern Australia)
- 1:30pm NZDT (New Zealand time)
How to watch The Game Awards 2024?
After the presentation, you can watch the Game Awards 2024 as a VOD at the same site if you are unable to watch it live on YouTube.
Please take note that the stream will begin an hour before Keighley takes the stage and thirty minutes before the pre-show officially begins.
What will be shown at The Game Awards 2024?
A few things have been hinted at, but the most of what we’ll see at the Game Awards will be unexpected.
More Borderlands 4 will be shown, according to Gearbox, and Mafia: The Old Country will be shown in Hangar 13.
Firaxis’ Civilization 7, one of the most anticipated games of the upcoming year, will be one of the more significant announcements.
The team behind 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two, Hazelight Studios, will reveal their upcoming project.
Updates for current games and a TGA 2024 announcement have been hinted to by third-person shooter Mecha Break.
Fans will receive updates from Zenless Zone Zero, Stalcraft: X, Warframe: 1999, and Tekken 8.
See our predictions for The Game Award winners for additional information about the presentation.
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