The third annual Game Awards, honoring the year’s best artistic, technical, and video gameplay achievements, are set to air live this evening at 9:00 pm ET on a slew of social platforms — including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube Gaming, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Steam, Twitch, and Microsoft’s Xbox Live. This year’s Game Awards, created and hosted by industry veteran Geoff Keighley, will also be the first awards show to be broadcast live in virtual reality.
Spanning console, mobile, PC gaming, and eSports, The Game Awards bowed in 2014 and were viewed by more than 7 million people last year.
This year’s awards will be attended by actress and The Talk co-host Aisha Tyler and Olympian Michael Phelps as well as a who’s-who of the most prominent gaming creators online, including Rooster Teeth, CaptainSparklez, iJustine, MatPat, and more.
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Hideo Kojima, the brains behind the Metal Gear military video game series, as well as graphic adventure titles Snatcher and Policenauts, will receive the Industry Icon Award. The broadcast will also feature live performances from hip hop duos Run The Jewels and Rae Sremmurd, as well as a first look at upcoming games including The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Prey, and The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Check out a tune-in link — touting YouTube’s just-announced 4K livestreaming capabilities — right here:
