The Game Awards drew 2.3M viewers.
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The Game Awards hits 2.3M viewers and 279K tweets

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The Game Awards drew 2.3 million viewers for its recent two-hour awards show, the event announced today. That number was up 20 percent from less than 2 million last year for the inaugural event hosted by Geoff Keighley.

“We started something special last year with The Game Awards, and it’s encouraging to see the audience grow double-digits for our second outing,” said Keighley, in a blog post.

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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.