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The Game Awards 2021 hits a record 85M livestream views

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Awards 2021 hit a new record of 85 million livestream views for its December 9 broadcast of awards and game announcements.

The eight annual showing of the video game celebration took place in-person at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles with a much smaller in-person crowd than in 2019, the most-recent previous in-person show. But it topped the global livestreams record set last year of 83 million views. The rate of growth soared online by 84% in 2020, but the growth of 2.4% this year mirrored the growth of gaming itself as the pandemic boom effect topped out.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.