The Game Awards' Security Is Getting Beefed Up This Year

After incidents involving unauthorized people appearing on stage to disrupt proceedings at Geoff Keighley-produced shows, The Game Awards will see its security tightened up for this year's event. Keighley, the host and producer of The Game Awards, was asked in a Twitch Q&A livestream if there would be any increased security measures for the show, and he explained that plans were in place to prevent yet another stage invasion.

"We don’t want to talk about that stuff too publicly, just because it’s security," Keighley said (via VGC). "We definitely have plans and we're trying to do all we can to keep me safe, but also everyone watching the show, the audience, people participating in the show and everything. It's certainly something we're thinking about. We appreciate the concern. Believe me, that's something that is top of mind for us, but we also want to put on a great show that celebrates these games, and celebrates our love of video games, so that's an important thing to keep in mind as well. But yeah, I appreciate the concern around that."

During last year's edition of The Game Awards, a seemingly random member of the audience joined Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki and several other From Software employees on stage as they accepted the award for Game of the Year. That moment became even more bizarre when the individual grabbed the microphone and made bizarre comments about former US President Bill Clinton. A few months ago at Gamescom Opening Night Live, Keighley was interrupted by another individual demanding information about GTA 6 and claiming that Bill Clinton wanted to play the game before he was finally removed from the stage by security.

These stage invasions were also seen as concerning, raising questions for the safety of the people attending The Game Awards and the developers who appeared on stage to receive their awards or talk about their upcoming games, as well as the slow response from security to safely resolve the matter. Whatever Keighley's new (and top secret!) security measures are for The Game Awards, you'll have to wait until December 7 to see if anyone is desperate enough to tempt fate in pursuit of brief online klout.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards, and the top award of Game Of The Year will be contested between Baldur's Gate 3, The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Resident Evil 4, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.