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The Game Awards will take place in-person in L.A. on December 9

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Geoff Keighley‘s The Game Awards will take place as a live, in-person ceremony in Los Angeles on December 9.

The celebration of video game culture will take place at the Microsoft Theater, the usual venue that holds about 5,000 people in downtown Los Angeles. On top of that, the awards event will be broadcast widely over the internet.

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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.