Geoff Keighley responds to criticisms of The Game Awards 2023 The Game AwardsThe Game Awards founder Geoff Keighley has responded to criticisms leveled at this year\u2019s ceremony, saying that there were things \u201cto address going forward.\u201d After over a decade of events, The Game Awards have cemented themselves as the de-facto video game Oscars, and they\u2019ve become one of the most anticipated events in the industry\u2019s calendar. With 2023 being as good as it was for gaming, this year\u2019s awards were hotly contested, and many viewers had a high investment in each of the categories, especially with big success stories like Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 looking poised to secure big sweeps. However, the event came under fire for seemingly rushing through acceptance speeches, with winners receiving barely half a minute of time to make their voices heard. In one instance, industry giant Sam Lake was even played off by the music. Geoff Keighley admits that speech times are \u201csomething to address\u201d In a Tweet posted a day after the Awards, Keighley responded to some of these criticisms, saying: \u201cBy the way \u2013 I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year, and I asked our team to relax that rule as the show went on. \u201cWhile no one was actually cut off, it\u2019s something to address going forward.\u201d However, some felt that this didn\u2019t acknowledge the awards where the winners didn\u2019t even get an opportunity to speak at all. At several points during the ceremony, a cluster of awards were announced at once, with little fanfare and no chance to speak. As the Game Awards show no sign of stopping, we\u2019ll have to wait to see if these criticisms are addressed in 2024 next year. For more news and updates on this year\u2019s Game Awards, check out our breakdown and analysis of every category winner in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geoff Keighley responds to criticisms of The Game Awards 2023 The Game AwardsThe Game Awards founder Geoff Keighley has responded to criticisms leveled at this year\u2019s ceremony, saying that there were things \u201cto address going forward.\u201d After over a decade of events, The Game Awards have cemented themselves as the de-facto video game Oscars, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}