How To Watch The 2018 Game Awards

By Jason Fanelli · November 30, 2018 at 11:04 PM UTC

The annual video game awards show is coming soon, and with it will be a handful of brand new updates and fresh world premieres. Here's how you can watch the 2018 Game Awards

The 2018 Game Awards are coming up next week, and along with awards for Game of the Year, Best Performances, and other categories will be a slew of new announcements, both updates to previously seen games and brand new world premiere titles. Anyone who calls himself or herself a gamer will want to be watching to see what’s unveiled, and here’s the best places for you to tune in and mark out.

The event kicks off at 8:30PM Eastern time on Thursday, December 6th, but as the head of the Game Awards Geoff Keighley confirmed via Twitter, the first half-hour of that is a pre-show segment before the festivities kick off:

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— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) November 30, 2018

YouTube and You

The Game Awards’ official YouTube channel would be the best place to start, as it not only will stream the entire event but it will be teasing new announcements leading up to the event and showing clips of the show as they happen. Keep an eye on that channel for the next week so you can keep up.

Twitch Plays Game Awards

If you’d rather have The Game Awards running alongside some of your favorite Twitch streams, the event will be broadcasting on its official Twitch page as well. Last year a Twitch extension let viewers vote to predict winners in every category, and while that has yet to be formally announced for this year we suspect it will absolutely be back.

Game Awards head Geoff Keighley at last year's event. Photo courtesy of The Game Awards.

Straight to the Source

Some of you reading this might only trust the most direct of direct sources, and if that’s the case the Game Awards website linked at the top of this piece will absolutely have a direct feed of the event. It may be the YouTube or Twitch stream, but the main Game Awards homepage will be hosting it. We don’t know if that will make the stream better, but at least you’ll be at the source.

Right On The Console

The Game Awards is known for streaming right from the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 sitting under your TV, you’ll just have to find an advertisement for the event either on the online storefront or in the “What’s New” update section of each console. Once you find it, just click on it and the feed will appear.

There will be plenty to see at this year’s Game Awards, so make sure you use one of these to check out all the action. In the meantime, take a look at our recent coverage at some of the Game Awards nominees for Best Esports Team, including Cloud9 and Fnatic.