The Game Awards 2023: How To Watch, Start Times, And What To Expect

The end of the year is fast-approaching, and in the video game world, that means all eyes turn to The Game Awards, the annual end-of-year celebration that mixes honors for Game of the Year with trailers and reveals for potential future GOTY award winners. [Update: The show is ongoing, and you can watch it in the embed below. Be sure to follow along with our list of Game Awards winners and all the big Game Awards announcements.]

This year's event is scheduled to air on December 7 live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California. Nominees for each award were announced earlier this month, and The Game Awards and Keighley himself will be teasing what's to come at this year's event via their social media accounts.

The Game Awards 2023 Start Time

The official livestream for The Game Awards 2023 begins with a 30-minute pre-show at 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET, followed by the main show at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. Award winners will be announced from over 30 categories across general gaming and esports, including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, and a new award for Best Adaptation of a video game IP into another form of media.

5:00 PM PT
7:00 PM CT
8:00 PM ET
1:00 AM GMT (December 8)
12 PM AET (December 8)

The Game Awards broadcast is expected to run for two-and-a-half to three hours, according to a now-private interview on YouTube with Keighley.

How To Watch The Game Awards 2023 Stream

The Game Awards will be streaming live on its official YouTube and Twitch channels, along with direct feeds on social media sites like Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter, as well as right here on GameSpot in the video above or our YouTube channel.

The Game Awards 2023 Presenters

Multiple notable names from across gaming and entertainment have been confirmed to appear at the show, with the majority of them tapped to present the awards. So far, the official social media accounts for The Game Awards and Keighley himself have confirmed the following people:

Sydnee Goodman, who will once again host the opening 30 minutes of the show
Christopher Judge, the voice of Kratos in God Of War: Ragnarok
Gonzo from The Muppets, which marks the fifth time in six years a Muppet character has appeared on the show
The Old Gods Of Asgard, as portrayed by Poets Of The Fall in Alan Wake 2
Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn Entertainment
Caroline Marchal, CEO of Interior/Night, which received the Games For Impact award last year for As Dusk Falls
Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walter Goggins from the cast of Fallout on Amazon Prime
Anthony Mackie, star of the Twisted Metal series
Zedd, DJ and EDM artist

What to expect at The Game Awards 2023

This year's version of The Game Awards will feature the same mixture of award presentations and game-related announcements as previous years. However, unlike recent years, teases for said game-related announcements have been surprisingly sparse from both the show's official sources and the game companies themselves. As of December 6, these are the only announcements confirmed for the show:

The next downloadable character for Guilty Gear Strive Season 3
New information for Warframe's upcoming Whispers In The Walls update
A Sega-related announcement, which was teased through mailers sent to fighting-game-focused content creators
A new Dead By Daylight collaboration, this time with Supermassive Games
Red Barrels, developer of The Outlast Trials, is teasing...something
The gameplay launch trailer for VR game Asgard's Wrath 2
Atlus has confirmed an update for Metaphor: ReFantazio