Game prizesthe video game industry's year-end celebration, announced that its 10th anniversary show broke viewership records, up 31% with 154 million global live streams.

That's up from 2023's record-breaking 118 million live streams. As I noted from attending the event at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the show's organizer Geoff Keighley redeemed himself compared to the review of a year ago.

Through a seamless approach to global distribution through native streaming, The Game Awards has delivered over 154 million live streams across multiple digital networks including YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X, Instagram Live and Facebook. Global viewership across China by a record number of networks. According to StreamCharts, there were more than 4 million concurrent viewers on Twitch, YouTube and other Western platforms, which is more than 10% higher than TGA 2023.

On YouTube, the 4K TGA channel jumped 35% to 1.3 million. Across platforms (including co-streams), TGA on YouTube grew 28% to over 2.17 million. More than 4,500 channels have co-streamed the show on YouTube, a new record.

The size of the rewards is staggering. As Joost van Dreunen of Super Joost points out, the Game Awards are more than Super Bowl viewers. It is eight times more than the Oscars, nine times more than the Grammys and 10 times more than the World Series.

The biggest moment for me was Amir Satwat's tearful acceptance speech, which helped 3,000 people find employment when the gaming industry laid off 34,000 people in 2.5 years. He received the first Game Changers award and appreciated Keighley Satwat and his work.

Satwat has helped people find work by creating an easily accessible job resource that aggregates all open jobs in the gaming industry. Some belittled him for simply making a table, but no one else did what he did. Satwat, who works all day at Tencent, is a digital and accumulated game job information that is not more than a month old and regularly updates his work in a timely manner. It organizes jobs by categories like artists and programmers so people can easily find relevant openings.

An emotional Satwat said that he cannot make great games without great people, and that his parents taught him that his value lies in the way he treats other people. He took these concepts to heart as he created spreadsheets and more to serve developers with jobs.

Is receiving this award in front of 154 million viewers a sad result? Some social media detractors blamed Satwat, falsely accusing him of various vices such as "creating a spreadsheet", self-promotion and participating in layoffs. He was not guilty of these violations, but Satwat noted that the false statements have received numerous hate messages and death threats against him and his family. I know Satwat and his Good Samaritan workand these hate messages are so wrong and wrong. Satwat became defensive in the post and many came to his side.

More than 11,000 channels on Twitch co-broadcast The Game Awards, and more than 4,500 on YouTube have created 15,900 co-channels.

Globally, TGA achieved its biggest results in China with direct distribution on a record number of platforms, including Bilbili, Huya, Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, DouYu, Baidu, NetEase CC, Tencent Video, QQ, Kuishou in China. , HeyBox; In South Korea or CHZZK and Soop, NicoNico in Japan.

Here are the historical live stream numbers for The Game Awards:

2024: 154 mln

2023: 118 mln

2022: 103 mln

2021: 85 mln

2020: 83 mln

2019: 45.2 mln

2018: 26.2 mln

2017: 11.5 mln

2016: 3.8 mln

2015: 2.3 mln

2014: 1.9 mln

At The Game Awards this year, Team Asobi and Sony Interactive Entertainment's Astro Bot won a total of four awards, including Game of the Year.

Studio Zero, Atlus, and Sega's Metaphor: ReFantanzio won three awards, including Best Story, Best Art Direction, and Best RPG. LocalThunk and Playstack's Balatro also won in three categories: Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game, and Best Mobile Game.

Along with d4vd and Royal & the Serpent, the show featured performances from Grammy Award-winning duo Twenty One Pilots, who performed original songs from Season 2 of Riot Games and Fortiche Production's hit Netflix animated series Arcane. Snoop Dogg also took the stage to perform "Missionary" from his new album.

Featuring some of the biggest names in entertainment and video games including Aaron Paul, Ella Purnell, Harrison Ford, Hideo Kojima, Isabella Merced, Khalid, Laura Bailey, Sam Lake, Shannon Woodward, Statler + Waldorf, Sven Wink, Sydney Goodman, Todd Howard, and Troy Baker, The Game Awards once again brought the industry together in a special celebration night.

Created by The Game Awards Orchestra's Lorne Balfe, the Game of the Year medley features music from this year's favorite Game of the Year nominees, including Asobi's ASTRO BOT, LocalThunk's Balatro, Game Science's Black Myth: Wukong, Elden Ring Shadow of Erdtree by FromSoftware, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth from Square Enix and Metaphor: ReFantazio from Studio Zero.

The Game Awards gave fans a look at what's next in gaming and entertainment with world premieres of upcoming projects such as Borderlands 4 (Gearbox Software), Dispatch (Adhoc), Elden Ring Nightreign (FromSoftware, Inc. and Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.). Intergalactica: Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog), Mafia: Old Country (Hangar 13), Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (SEGA), Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios), Stage Fright (Ghost Town Games) and The Witcher 4 (CD Projekt Red) .

The Game Awards are executive produced by Jeff Keighley and Kimmy Kim. Richard Preuss is the director, LeRoy Bennett is the creative director, Michael Peter is the executive producer.

In a Facebook post, Keighley opened up more about how much the show meant to her:

I can't believe I'm writing this, but this year's The Game Awards was our biggest show yet, with 154 million live streams — a new record, up over 30% from 2023.

Every year I tell our team that we can't wait for the show to go on - eventually what goes up must come down - but then, somehow, more people from around the world show up and join us in celebrating video games.

Numbers aside, it was a special show for me personally and professionally. Suddenly it felt like everything was open to so many things. Most of all, I'm glad the fans and the industry like the show, and I'm sure we have the industry's best interests at heart. Thank you to everyone who has supported us through the good times and through the hard times. I'm excited to think about the next decade and where TGA and gaming will go. We will continue to build, there is much work to be done.